But ugh, that's a lot of stuff to study, when the problem may be rather trivial.
How about try reinstalling all avahi packages. (Using a package manager, check anything with *avahi* in their names.) I recommend to move to Debian 'testing' anyway (i.e. upgrade) except your laptop is way old. I bet the upgrade fixes the error message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130625014353.46e09...@mirrors.kernel.org