Describe the bug

While attempting to get afpstats working on macOS, I found that afpd often crashes when a client connects to a server that has afpstats = yes set, whether dbus is running or not.

To Reproduce

1. Install netatalk from Homebrew
2. set afpstats = yes in [Global] of afp.conf
3. ensure dbus is not running
4. sudo netatalkd start
5. (optional) run afpstats to get error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /opt/homebrew/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
6. from another Mac: connect to the server

Expected/Actual behavior

• expected: The client Mac would connect.
• actual: The client Mac gives "There was a problem connecting to the server" right after authenticating, and afpd sometimes crashes on the server

Simply removing afpstats = yes allows netatalk to work properly.

Environment

• Server OS: macOS Sonoma arm64
• Client OS: macOS Monterey x86_64
• Netatalk Version: 4.3.0

Configuration

[Global]
log file = /var/log/netatalk.log
log level = default:maxdebug
afpstats = yes

[Homes]
basedir regex = /Users

Logs

see attachments

afpd crash.zip