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I didn’t look into the code ;D, but to me it looks like a deadlock: Avast is holding on while waiting to get an connection for updates, and the firewall is not started for that reason, so no network available…
I have a network icon in the system tray, and in above described situation the icon doesn’t show up. Indicating that network is not available yet. Sometimes I get the error message that the firewall service couldn’t start. I strongly believe that Avast! is holding a lock on services that should be starting, because it aims to update itself first.