[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#528580: avahi-daemon need 19 hours to deinstall

[Steve McIntyre]

Michelle wrote:
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>Package: avahi-daemon
>Version: 0.6.23-3lenny1
>Severity: important

...

>Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
>Purging configuration files for avahi-daemon ...
>Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
>Purging configuration files for avahi-daemon ...
>Can't opendir(/proc/32292): No such file or directory
> at /usr/sbin/deluser line 304
>
>and now it hangs forever and I can not kill this crap (^C does not work)
>
>It took 19 hours because  "avahi-daemon"  has  unrequested  accessed  my
>29 TByte Debian-Archive mirror, my  ${HOME}  Server  with   2 TByte,  my
>Multimedia Server 18 TByte and Devel File-Server with 16 TByte.
>
>It has blocked my whole Workstation and I was not able to stop it.
>
>Because I was not willing to HARD reset my system, to avoid an  excessiv
>fsck run, it was running the whole day today.
>
>Please can you make a it more secure to prevent access to NFS shares?

What does

$ grep REMOVE_ALL_FILES /etc/deluser.conf 

say on your system? What you're seeing is the avahi postrm simply
removing the avahi user. If you've configured deluser to remove all
files when a user account is deleted, then the system has to search
through all the filesystems looking for things owned by that user...

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