[Solved] Strange warning pops up all of a sudden.

[Papasot]

A strange thing happens all of a sudden. After rebooting (in runlevel 3, I never used gdm), and a few seconds after the system completes the booting proccess, I get this message:

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Timeout reached while wating for return value
Could not receive return value from daemon process

(note that the "wating" above is not a typo made by me, it really says "wating"). I use this computer running Salix for more than a year now, always booting at runlevel 3, and never saw this message before. I didn't do anything special, just normal everyday's use.
I duckduckgo'ed it a bit, and found the warning comes from the Avahi daemon. However, I don't know what to do to get rid of it, and why it pops up all of a sudden.

Any clues?

[gapan]

I guess you can disable the avahi service if you have no use for it.

[Papasot]

I rarely use Avahi, so I just uninstalled it for now, to get rid of the annoying message. I wonder why it popped up all of a sudden though...

[mimosa]

I see this too if I am not quick enough logging in. But if you just type your username and password followed by enter, ignoring the message, it still works. Or just press enter twice to get a visible login prompt.

EDIT

Even having googled this I can't work out what it does. Presumably, rather than uninstalling it, it would be enough to do

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chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon

or perhaps

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chmod -x /etc/rc.d.avahidnsconfd

According to wikipedia, it was the brainchild of Lennart Poettering ...

[Papasot]

Even if you login quickly, the warning message still pops up after a while, unless you type startx quickly and get to a graphical environment, where you obviously can't see it anymore.

According to wikipedia, it was the brainchild of Lennart Poettering ...

Ouch, I just realized that. No wonder it spits warning messages all of a sudden then (including typos as well). I guess next Avahi version will even warn you that you don't have systemd installed so your computer is going to explode.

Anyway, Poettering poo = instant uninstall and blacklisted. problem solved.

[Alltohive]

I rarely use Avahi, so I just uninstalled it for now, to get rid of the annoying message. I wonder why it popped up all of a sudden though...

This happened to me too and just a quick uninstall did the trick.