# Core 145 Testing - avahi not working

**URL:** <https://community.ipfire.org/t/core-145-testing-avahi-not-working/2348>\
**Category:** Testing\
**Created:** [24 May 2020 01:51 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/core-145-testing-avahi-not-working/2348 "2020-05-24T01:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![rodneyp](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/rodneyp/32/16575_2.png) [@rodneyp](https://community.ipfire.org/u/rodneyp)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2020 01:51 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/core-145-testing-avahi-not-working/2348/1 "2020-05-24T01:51:02Z")

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Core 145 (on i586-PAE) is not starting avahi.

[root@briar ~]# driverless  
ippfind: Unable to use Bonjour: Daemon not running

[root@briar ~]# /etc/init.d/avahi start  
Starting avahi… [FAIL]  
[root@briar ~]# /etc/init.d/avahi status  
/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon is not running.

I tried re-installing avahi, to no avail.

[root@briar ~]# pakfire install avahi  
PAKFIRE RESV: avahi: Resolving dependencies…  
PAKFIRE RESV: avahi: Dependency is already installed: dbus  
PAKFIRE RESV: avahi: Dependency is already installed: libdaemon

[root@briar ~]# tail /var/log/messages  
May 24 11:27:53 briar pakfire: PAKFIRE INST: avahi: Finished.  
May 24 11:27:53 briar pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Pakfire has finished. Closing.  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: Found user ‘avahi’ (UID 999) and group ‘avahi’ (GID 999).  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: Successfully dropped root privileges.  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: avahi-daemon 0.7 starting up.  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: dbus\_bus\_get\_private(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system\_bus\_socket: No such file or directory  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.  
May 24 11:27:53 briar avahi-daemon[4919]: avahi-daemon 0.7 exiting.

The suggestion to install nss-mdns also failed

[root@briar ~]# pakfire install nss-mdns

PAKFIRE WARN: The pak “nss-mdns” is not known. Please try running “pakfire update”.

avahi was working on core 144 (although on ARM architecture - I did not check it on i586-PAE, which was running core 144 testing anyway)

“pakfire update” did not find nss-mdns

Is something else needed to get avahi working ?