[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#841926: avahi-daemon crashes with "Out of memory, aborting ..."

[Erik Braun]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.32-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the avahi-daemon crashes after around a minute on a quite fresh installed
Debian Testing system: 

# s status avahi-daemon.service
● avahi-daemon.service - Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: signal) since Mo 2016-10-24 15:53:19 CEST; 13s ago
   Process: 10015 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -s (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
   Main PID: 10015 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)
   Status: "avahi-daemon 0.6.32 starting up."
   
Okt 24 15:52:25 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface enp0s25.IPv4 with address 10.10.13.114.
Okt 24 15:52:25 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: New relevant interface enp0s25.IPv4 for mDNS.
Okt 24 15:52:25 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Okt 24 15:52:25 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: Registering new address record for fe80::21c:c0ff:dead:beef on enp0s25.*.
Okt 24 15:52:25 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: Registering new address record for 10.10.13.114 on enp0s25.IPv4.
Okt 24 15:52:26 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: Server startup complete. Host name is hostname.local. Local service cookie is 2393574920.
Okt 24 15:53:19 hostname avahi-daemon[10015]: Out of memory, aborting ...
Okt 24 15:53:19 hostname systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Okt 24 15:53:19 hostname systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state.
Okt 24 15:53:19 hostname systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Failed with result 'signal'.


The last lines of the strace log:

mmap(NULL, 134217728, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x7fa7e8f9c000
munmap(0x7fa7e8f9c000, 50741248)        = 0
munmap(0x7fa7f0000000, 16367616)        = 0
mprotect(0x7fa7ec000000, 135168, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
munmap(0x7fa7ec000000, 67108864)        = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
write(2, "Out of memory, aborting ...\n", 28) = 28

The journal and the log files do not contain more helpful information:

Okt 24 15:49:16 hostname avahi-daemon[9961]: Out of memory, aborting ...
Okt 24 15:49:16 hostname systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Okt 24 15:49:16 hostname systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state.
Okt 24 15:49:16 hostname systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Okt 24 15:49:16 hostname avahi-daemon[9966]: Process 9961 died: No such process; trying to remove PID file. (/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser              3.115
ii  bind9-host [host]    1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-10.1
ii  dbus                 1.10.12-1
ii  init-system-helpers  1.45
ii  libavahi-common3     0.6.32-1
ii  libavahi-core7       0.6.32-1
ii  libc6                2.24-3
ii  libcap2              1:2.25-1
ii  libdaemon0           0.14-6
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.12-1
ii  libexpat1            2.2.0-1
ii  lsb-base             9.20160629

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns  0.10-7

Versions of packages avahi-daemon suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

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