[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#468438: fails to start: cap_set_proc() not permitted

[Drew Parsons]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.22-2
Severity: grave

Currently the avahi daemon fails to start:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemonTimeout reached while
wating for return value
Could not receive return value from daemon process.
 failed!

/var/log/daemon.log (and syslog) reports:

avahi-daemon[12232]: cap_set_proc() failed: Operation not permitted

The problem remains after dpkg-reconfigure or reinstall.
Marking 'grave' since it renders the package unusable.

Drew

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  bind9-host [host]             1:9.4.2-4  Version of 'host' bundled with BIN
ii  dbus                          1.1.4-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libavahi-common3              0.6.22-2   Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-core5                0.6.22-2   Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib
ii  libc6                         2.7-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdaemon0                    0.12-1     lightweight C library for daemons 
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.4-1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                     1.95.8-4   XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns                   0.10-3     NSS module for Multicast DNS name 

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