[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk-GUI 0018908]: GUI hangs on "Checking write permission for gui folder"

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https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18908 
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Reported By:                douwe
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk-GUI
Issue ID:                   18908
Category:                   General
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk GUI Version:       SVN 
Asterisk Version:           1.8.2.4 
JIRA:                        
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A 
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2011-03-02 09:59 CST
Last Modified:              2011-03-08 12:59 CST
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Summary:                    GUI hangs on "Checking write permission for gui
folder"
Description: 
I installed the sources from SVN r5161, set all the appropriate
permissions, enabled the http and manager, and did everything by the book,
as far as I know.

Note, this is on FreeBSD 8.2:

FreeBSD XXX 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=1: Tue Mar  1 17:29:18 CET 2011
    virtus at XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER  i386

When going to the GUI configuration page, after logging in the GUI keeps
returning to "Checking write permission for gui folder". This error seems
recurrent, as it occurs in several other bug reports and on the mailing
lists.

As far as I can tell, it seems to be a problem with the DAHDI detection,
because the parseConfig loop exits perfectly fine. I'm surprised that it
just keeps going, instead of giving an error which could tell me where it's
going wrong.

It appears that in some places, "/etc/modprobe.d" is hardcoded. In FreeBSD
(using the dahdi-freebsd sources), the modules are installed in
/usr/local/lib/dahdi/, which might be what's causing this.

Firebug reports errors on the following GET commands:

http://XXX:8088/asterisk/rawman?action=originate&channel=Local%2Fexecutecommand%40asterisk_guitools&Variable=command%3Decho%2097555%20%3E%20%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fasterisk%2Fstatic-http%2Fconfig%2Fsysinfo_output3771.html&application=noop&timeout=60000
http://XXX:8088/asterisk/rawman?action=originate&channel=Local%2Fexecutecommand%40asterisk_guitools&Variable=command%3Decho%2097555%20%3E%20%2Fvar%2Flib%2Fasterisk%2Fstatic-http%2Fconfig%2Fsysinfo_output3771.html&application=noop&timeout=60000

My manager.conf file does allow "originate", so that shouldn't be the
problem here.

If necessary, I can provide external access to the server. I would really
like for this to work on FreeBSD! There is a FreeBSD port available, that
works like a charm for 1.4 but is severely outdated.
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 (0132749) douwe (reporter) - 2011-03-08 12:59
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18908#c132749 
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I removed the comments and I don't get the error in
/var/log/asterisk/messages, but it still hangs (doesn't loop anymore).

There is a lot more hardcoded platform stuff in the code. I'm not sure how
far you want to go in supporting FreeBSD, but to give some examples:

- Calls to 'free' don't work, that should be 'vmstat -h' in FreeBSD:
sysinfo.html:                                          
ASTGUI.systemCmdWithOutput( 'free' , function(free){
welcome.html:                   ASTGUI.systemCmdWithOutput( 'free' ,
function(output){
- FreeBSD does not have /etc/modprobe.d, but the modules are loaded from
/boot/loader.conf

Can the Makefile also have the prefix updated in the scripts? 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-03-08 12:59 douwe          Note Added: 0132749                          
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