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2.2.18 avahi-daemon Fails to Start with UEK R2

The avahi-daemon fails to start with UEK R2 and messages such as the following are logged:

avahi-daemon[PID]: SO_REUSEPORT failed: Protocol not available
avahi-daemon[PID]: Failed to create server: No suitable network protocol available

The workaround is to comment out the disallow-other-stacks entry in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf as shown here:

#disallow-other-stacks=yes

(Bug ID 19712845)