[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-20945) "Unable to connect to remote asterisk" message on service asterisk start, even though service is running

[Michael L. Young (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20945?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Michael L. Young updated ASTERISK-20945:
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    Attachment: asterisk-20945-remote-intro-msg.diff

This patch [^asterisk-20945-remote-intro-msg.diff] should get the intro message to display again.

In regards to the other message, it is harmless.  But, I agree that it is annoying.  That message is being displayed due to the fact that the init script is calling "asterisk -rx" in order to determine if asterisk is running or not.

That message started to be displayed because that error message was not being printed directly to stderr before the changes.  So, it has always been there, just never displayed.

Let me see if I can think of something for that init script.
                
> "Unable to connect to remote asterisk" message on service asterisk start, even though service is running
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-20945
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20945
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: Core/General
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.20.0
>         Environment: CentOS 5.8
> Kernel - 2.6.18-308.24.1.el5PAE
>            Reporter: Warren Selby
>         Attachments: asterisk-20945-remote-intro-msg.diff
>
>
> Installed asterisk 1.8.19.1, worked fine. Installed 1.8.20.0, and started seeing the following issues, with the same config files for both:
> When I start the asterisk service using "service asterisk start" from the command line, this is the output:
> {noformat}
> [root at pbx ~]# service asterisk start
> Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)
> Starting asterisk:
> {noformat}
> However, the /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl file is being created and the process is starting:
> {noformat}
> [root at pbx ~]# ls -lh /var/run/asterisk/
> total 4.0K
> srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 16 12:07 asterisk.ctl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jan 16 12:07 asterisk.pid
> {noformat}
> However, I'm no longer getting the usual splash message when I connect to the asterisk console...this is what I get:
> {noformat}
> [root at pbx ~]# asterisk -r
> Verbosity is at least 3
> pbx*CLI>
> {noformat}
> I don't have any peers setup yet, or even any dialplan configured to test, but when I go through the logs, I don't find any errors or warnings that I'm not expecting.
> I've gone back to the asterisk 1.8.19.1 install and everything works as expected (no error messages, full splash about license / version on connection to console, etc).  I performed make clean in my 1.8.20 source directory, then ./configure, make menuselect, make, make install, and even make config, and I'm still seeing this message pop up when restarting / starting the service. 
> I went through the CHANGELOG.TXT for 1.8.20.0 and it appears there are some items talking about changing the way the process starts up (commit r376428), but I'm not enough of a coder to understand if those would cause what I'm seeing.  

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