Question.

[fcbsd@hachyderm.io]

@mcc I don't know the answer to that either, but a Debian tablet that I installed trixie on recently has:
publish-workstation=no
and systemctl status says the avahi-daemon.services is enables are running, and pinging hostname.local worked...

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@lambdageek Oh, that is such a good question :(

[mcc@mastodon.social]

*rolling around on the floor in pain* this is even more upsetting

https://mastodon.social/@lambdageek/116099504356976778

this worked

the problem was not the publish-workstation=no

the problem was not debian; nothing changed

my local avahi daemon had simply locked up

at least one other person replied to say their avahi daemon wedges semifrequently and they have to restart it

now i kinda *do* want to use the systemd mdns provider

however unfortunately https://chaos.social/@elomatreb/116099505178400601

[mcc@mastodon.social]

so to summarize, nothing was wrong, it's just the relevant daemon needed to be rebooted, and that's such a 1990s Linux kinda problem it didn't even occur to me to try it. i thought we were past that

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@lambdageek it worked. thank you

[val@oc.todon.fr]

@mcc do you have long uptime? This keeps causing me issues with desktop software because their devs don't seem to test that very well (pipewire leaks FDs until it runs out, KDE's calendar notifications daemon stop, etc.)

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@mcc i fear we will never get past "have you tried turning it on and off again"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ratsnakegames It would have worked!! It would have worked!! I trained myself out of "turn it off and on again" and that was the correct solution!!!