[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#693604: Bug#693604: avahi-daemon takes 100% CPU right after boot and at every restart of CUPS

[Michael Biebl]

Am 20.03.2013 11:53, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> severity 693604 serious
> thanks
> 
> Am 20.03.2013 10:41, schrieb Hagen Fuchs:
>> Package: avahi-daemon
>> Followup-For: Bug #693604
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I can confirm that applying the patch mentioned above[0] directly on the
>> Debian avahi-sources stopped these occurrences.  To be clear: Avahi
>> /never/ recovers from these load excursions and stays at ~100% until
>> killed.
>>
>> In our environment of 39 print queues (about 30 physical printers) this
>> had become rather a serious headache with multiple daily occurrences.  I
>> wrote a rather desperate script that would minutely check for Avahi's
>> well-being.  After applying the patch about two weeks ago, it (the
>> script) recorded not one instance of permanent overload.
>>
>> More tidbits: I have/had two servers exhibiting this behaviour (from a
>> total of four).  They multicast into different subnets.  One is a x86_64
>> KVM machine, the other a i686 OpenVZ container.  Also, the behaviour
>> occurs in heavily MacOS-infes...frequented subnets.
> 
> Bumping the severity, I think this should be fixed for wheezy as it is a
> rather nasty bug.
> Will poke upstream if he has any concerns regarding the patch that was
> posted [1]
> 
> 
> Michael
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html
> 

Bringing Lennart into the loop here.
The relevant Debian bug report is [1] and the same issue was also
reported in the Ubuntu bug tracker. The patch from [3] was reported to
fix the issue.
So it would be great if you, Lennart, can have a look at the patch.

Michael


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693604
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1059286
[3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html


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