[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk-GUI 0018908]: [patch] 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:              2011-03-13 14:01 CDT
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Summary:                    [patch] 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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 (0132893) lathama (developer) - 2011-03-13 14:01
 https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18908#c132893 
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douwe, I am not the boss, good code and patches are the boss. :D

I also have noticed that some of these scripts and code are in need of
some documentation which is not your problem, but it couldn't hurt.

I agree with you.  The changes would only need to happen in index.html and
the scripts.  Maybe look at combining the scripts with an argv + case
logic...  Use the logic from the Asterisk Makefile that writes the
asterisk.conf if it is ease to use.

I hope to have more time to play with this later.  Watch out for hardcoded
stuff in the jquery.js, it is altered for the gui. 

Issue History 
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2011-03-13 14:01 lathama        Note Added: 0132893                          
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