Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 2 (32bit only)
afptcpd version 1.1.0-0.10 and version 1.1.0-0.12
afptcpd version 1.1.0-0.10 and version 1.1.0-0.12
Situation
After updating to the very latest maintenance patch level for OES2SP2 32bit, the afptcpd service exits with a segmentation fault if the avahi-daemon is already active. Starting the service results in:
# /etc/init.d/novell-afptcpd start
Starting the novell-afptcpd daemon done
# /etc/init.d/novell-afptcpd status
Checking for service novell-afptcpd unused
Resolution
Solution:
Please update to novell-afptcpd version -1.1.0-0.13.1 via online update.
Please update to novell-afptcpd version -1.1.0-0.13.1 via online update.
Additional Information
Avahi is a daemon to discover network services to configure a client in a given environment automatically. It is safe to turn it off and disable its automatic startup (insserv -r avahi-daemon) in case it is not used.