[asterisk-users] Issue after upgrade to 1.8.20 - Unable to connect to remote asterisk message on service asterisk start

[Eric Wieling]

I am also experiencing this issue.  Asterisk is in fact running, you can verify by running "asterisk -rvvv" (-r connects to an EXISTING asterisk process) or using ps.    



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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Warren Selby
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:21 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] Issue after upgrade to 1.8.20 - Unable to connect to remote asterisk message on service asterisk start

I'm trying to decide if I need to open an issue for this or if it's just a misconfiguration issue of some sort.  Here's the situation - yesterday morning, I downloaded asterisk 1.8.19.1 and installed it on a fresh CentOS 5.8 installation and got a shell of a basic asterisk install setup (minimum required configuration files, etc, with no dialplan or sip peers setup yet).  In the afternoon, I got the notification that asterisk 1.8.20.0 had been released, so today, I downloaded the latest 1.8-current.tar.gz and compiled and installed it (./configure, make menuselect and choose all the same options as my previous install, make, make install).  


Now, when I start the asterisk service using "service asterisk start" from the command line, this is the output:

[root at pbx ~]# service asterisk start
Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?) Starting asterisk:


However, the /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl file is being created and the process is starting:

[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


However, I'm no longer getting the usual splash message when I connect to the asterisk console...this is what I get:

[root at pbx ~]# asterisk -r
Verbosity is at least 3
pbx*CLI>


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.  


Is anyone else seeing this issue?  Should I open an issue on the tracker?  Anyone see something obvious I missed?


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Thanks,
--Warren Selby, dCAP
http://www.SelbyTech.com