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on a fresh 2.2.4 AMD 64 install (Hyper-V VM) Avahi fails to start after reboot.

Running this command will get the daemon started after initial boot.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon.sh restart
output is:
dbus not running? (check /var/run/dbus/dbus.pid).
dbus not running? (check /var/run/dbus/dbus.pid).
Starting dbus.

The service then works normally until the next reboot.

I checked to see if the var/run/dbus directory existed after boot and it is there.

Log after reboot:

Aug 12 23:00:43 root: /usr/pbi/avahi-amd64/etc/rc.d/dbus: WARNING: failed to start dbus
Aug 12 23:00:44 login: login on ttyv0 as root
Aug 12 23:00:44 sshlockout⁹⁰⁷⁶⁷: sshlockout/webConfigurator v3.0 starting up
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹¹³⁰: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 exiting.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁵⁴¹: Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁵⁴¹: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁵⁴¹: open(/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid): File exists
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁵⁴¹: Failed to create PID file: File exists
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
Aug 12 23:00:48 avahi-daemon¹⁶⁶⁰: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 exiting.

May be similar to:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2535

See this thread:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=96218.15

doktornotor has already made all of the style corrections to the package and cleaned it up. A checkbox is available to disable dbus which allows the service to start but I thought I should submit a bug since the package was working fine for me prior to 2.2.3 and I am not sure of the importance of dbus for proper package function.

Thanks,
Chad