[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#986541: avahi-daemon: fail to upgrade from 0.7-4+b1 to 0.7-4+deb10u1

[Frédéric Mothe]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.7-4+deb10u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When I try to upgrade avahi-daemon to Debian 10.9 it fails after about five
minutes.
Here is the output:

root at zarbi:~# LANG=C apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  manpages-fr
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up avahi-daemon (0.7-4+deb10u1) ...
Job for dbus.service failed.
See "systemctl status dbus.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.
Job for avahi-daemon.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status avahi-daemon.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript avahi-daemon, action "restart" failed.
* avahi-daemon.service - Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2021-04-07 11:01:47 CEST; 10ms
ago
  Process: 16005 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -s (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 16005 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Apr 07 11:00:17 zarbi systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack...
Apr 07 11:00:17 zarbi avahi-daemon[16005]: Process 15142 died: No such process;
trying to remove PID file. (/run/avahi-daemon//pid)
Apr 07 11:00:17 zarbi avahi-daemon[16005]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 104) and
group 'avahi' (GID 107).
dpkg: error processing package avahi-daemon (--configure):
 installed avahi-daemon package post-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 avahi-daemon
Error: Timeout was reached
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at zarbi:~#

root at zarbi:~# systemctl 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: timeout) since Wed 2021-04-07 11:01:47 CEST; 6min
ago
  Process: 16005 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -s (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 16005 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

avril 07 11:00:17 zarbi systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack...
avril 07 11:00:17 zarbi avahi-daemon[16005]: Process 15142 died: No such
process; trying to remove PID file. (/run/avahi-daemon//pid)
avril 07 11:00:17 zarbi avahi-daemon[16005]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 104) and
group 'avahi' (GID 107).
avril 07 11:01:47 zarbi systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Start operation timed
out. Terminating.
avril 07 11:01:47 zarbi systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Main process exited,
code=killed, status=15/TERM
avril 07 11:01:47 zarbi systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Failed with result
'timeout'.
avril 07 11:01:47 zarbi systemd[1]: Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.

root at zarbi:~# journalctl -xe
--
-- The unit avahi-daemon.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
'timeout'.
avril 07 11:01:47 zarbi systemd[1]: Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.
-- Subject: L'unité (unit) avahi-daemon.service a échoué
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- L'unité (unit) avahi-daemon.service a échoué, avec le résultat failed.
avril 07 11:05:01 zarbi CRON[16070]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for
user root by (uid=0)
avril 07 11:05:01 zarbi CRON[16071]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 >
/dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
avril 07 11:05:26 zarbi dbus-daemon[598]: [system] Reloaded configuration
avril 07 11:05:26 zarbi dbus-daemon[598]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-
off: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-
org.freedesktop.Avahi.service' requeste
avril 07 11:05:26 zarbi dbus-daemon[598]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-
off: service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' unit='packagekit.service'
requested by ':1.18
avril 07 11:05:51 zarbi dbus-daemon[598]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
avril 07 11:05:51 zarbi dbus-daemon[598]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
avril 07 11:05:51 zarbi dbus-daemon[598]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.PackageKit': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
avril 07 11:05:51 zarbi CRON[16070]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for
user root

Frédéric



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.9
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser            3.118
ii  bind9-host [host]  1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u3
ii  dbus               1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  libavahi-common3   0.7-4+deb10u1
ii  libavahi-core7     0.7-4+deb10u1
ii  libc6              2.28-10
ii  libcap2            1:2.25-2
ii  libdaemon0         0.14-7
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  libexpat1          2.2.6-2+deb10u1
ii  lsb-base           10.2019051400

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns  0.14.1-1

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

-- no debconf information