Bug 139825

Summary:	If avahi service is stopped, opening some documents can take very long to open
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Marco Ciampa <ciampix>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	grahamperrin
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0.4.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89394
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Description Marco Ciampa 2021-01-22 08:29:04 UTC

Description:
If the service Avahi is absent or disabled, LibreOffice can take up 30 seconds or more to open a document, independently on its size/complexity.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.stop the avahi service
2.open an already saved document
3.wait...

Actual Results:
It takes a lot to open a document...

Expected Results:
It should see that there is no avahi service running and do not timeout for it!


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
I remember that this problem was present also with previously versions of LibreOffice (6.* and 5.*) but I do not remember exactly the version number.
I imagine that this problem starts very earlier since the avahi adoption.

Easy workaround: if you have to disable avahi and do not want this behaviour, just disable ipv4 and ipv6 support on the avahi config and restart avahi.
Avahi will be disabled but LibreOffice will see it as working, and everybody is happy!

Comment 1 Graham Perrin 2022-09-07 06:25:19 UTC

See also: bug 119408 comment 0