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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dan – you probably installed the init script (look in /etc/init.d for an ‘asterisk’ file).  Asterisk includes the older init style scripts which are *compatible* with systemd but you don’t have as much control compared to creating an Asterisk systemd file.  (SystemD service files replace InitD scripts).  So that might be part of the solution, but first…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If disabling Selinux allows Asterisk to run as you expect then you can create an selinux policy exception for Asterisk – BUT, ignore that for now.  Just keep SElinux disabled (edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and set to disabled) and come back to that later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>So in preparation to diagnose further:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Disable asterisk service (systemctl disable asterisk)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Disable selinux (as described above)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Reboot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Next, try to start asterisk with ‘systemctl start asterisk’.  Does it work as expected?  If no, what user have you logged in with?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If not root, su to root and try again.  Did it asterisk service start properly?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If yes, you should create a systemd service file and use the ‘user=root’ parameter (and remove the initd service script).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Does Asterisk start properly now every time?  If yes re-enable to your systemd Asterisk service to start with the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I don’t see any attachment (probably stripped by the list manager) but that shouldn’t matter – if your Asterisk service is not running as root that would explain a range of strange behaviours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>*<b>Jason</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Cropp<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] Having problem getting Asterisk to work on CentOS 7<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks Jason.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I will try to explain what I’m seeing for this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I did a fresh install of CentOS 7 Minimal into a VM with VMWare Workstation.  Followed the Asterisk from Source instructions using pjproject 2.6 and asterisk 13.14.0 for the configure, install, …   At the end of the asterisk portion, I ran the make config which I understand installs the Initialization scripts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>After this, when I restart my CentOS 7 Minimal, I was seeing the safe_asterisk process, but asterisk would not start.  I could run it from the command line and it would run.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>It was suggested that it’s an selinux problem.  They had me try ‘setenforce 0’.  After this, asterisk process starts running.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>As I understand it, there was mention of using systemd instead of using safe_asterisk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Other e-mails indicated I should look at the audit.log, so I included that information.  This audit.log mentioned astdb.sqlite3, so I wasn’t sure if that’s the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I also just tried a restart and ran ‘systemctl start asterisk’.  This did not start the asterisk process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Through the various recommendations, I’ve become confused on what the correct path would be.  I have had zero problems with Debian and Asterisk for many years.  Making the change to CentOS.  Followed the instructions from asterisk.org, but for some reason I hit a problem with this on my CentOS VM.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Asterisk+From+Source"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Asterisk+From+Source</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Simply looking for guidance on what the correct approach to solve this problem is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Have a great day!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> </span><a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> [</span><a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Telium Technical Support<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] Having problem getting Asterisk to work on CentOS 7<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The history of the question is lost (in the mail thread) so I’ll jump in based on what I could see in my recent mail and the subject line:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'>        </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The ASTDB should have no impact on Asterisk service start (which I assume is the problem given the subject line)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'>        </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If you disabled SElinux then that’s not the problem in starting asterisk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>From another posting it appears that you can start Asterisk from the binary, and from safe_asterisk.  If that’s correct, then are you able to start/stop Asterisk from the service file?  With CentOS7 that would be:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>systemctl start asterisk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Is your asterisk service file present?  (You can create one easily based on samples on the internet).  If you have an asterisk service file but startup fails post the relevant portion of your syslog (journalctl).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If your question has changed (you mentioned ‘the first problem’) then ignore the above; jumping in late.</span><o:p></o:p></p><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>*<b>Jason</b>*<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>