avahidaemon failes to load

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I installed avahai from the repo (needed for the latest version of CUPS, which is running on my Arch server). This is to Salix64 XFCE 13.37

However, any attempt to load the daemon gives me these results:

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root[rc.d]# ./rc.avahidaemon start
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon:  /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -D
Timeout reached while wating for return value
Could not receive return value from daemon process.

Takes a while to time out, but I've not managed to get it loaded at all since I installed it a few days ago.

Anyone got any ideas as to what the problem could be?

Paul.

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Anyone? I've now confirmed that the same error occurs on three different Salix 13.37 installs. I've got a 32-bit and a 64-bit install on my Lenovo T61. Under the 64-bit version, I've been seeing the same error message for a while - didn't know what was producing it. On checking, I find something must have pulled it in as a dep, since I didn't install it.

I've now installed avahi on the 32-bit install. Attempting to start the avahi-daemon gets me this error:

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root[rc.d]# ./rc.avahidaemon restart
Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: stopped
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon:  /usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -D
Timeout reached while wating for return value
Could not receive return value from daemon process.

Is there anyone else running avahi? Able to check that it loads on their system?

Paul.

[JRD]

Read the documentation of the package: /usr/doc/avahi-*/README.Slackware
You'll see that you need to create a special user for Avahi to work.