Comment 3 for bug 1661869

Avahi starts fine in a 16.04 container for me. Can you share what errors you are actually seeing Dustin?

lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 xenial
ssh ubuntu@<ip>
sudo apt install avahi-daemon
sudo systemctl status avahi-daemon

The post you linked is from January 2016 and on 15.10 (wily).. it does in fact not launch correctly on wily but it does fine on xenial.

On wily, setting rlimit-nproc=4 seems to fix it, for some reason rlimit-nproc=3 fails on wily though the same setting is working on xenial.