Avahi not starting with zeroconf turned on (LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2.1)

1st Official Post

    Is there a reason that the avahi service would not start with zeroconf turned on?

    I kept on getting the following message in the kodi.log: "CZeroconfAvahi::doPublishService: client not running, queued for publishing" regardless of the state of zeroconf setting.

    I was have trouble getting airplay working because avahi-daemon was not running. Once I manually started the daemon airplay worked fine.

    As a workaround, I manually added a service with systemctl (/storage/.config/system.d/avahi.service), but I thought this should be handled by the Kodi system controls.

    This is LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2.1 (was originally updated from openelec).

    Is there a fix I should do? Or how do I fix Kodi so that it works as expected?

    Thanks for any help!

    • Official Post

    Publishing via Zeroconf is a Kodi thing that depends on the OS level Avahi service running which is enabled/disabled from LE settings. Check that it has not been disabled there first. Plan B .. backup and clean install then selectively restore things from the backup. If you do a normal restore you will just restore whatever cruft/issue is causing the problem too.