[Asterisk-Users] Newbie question. (Long)

[Rich Adamson]

Well... the next best guess is the binary package that you downloaded
has some dependencies that are not on your system, or, the package
simply wasn't intended for your distro (for one reason or another).

Does the system have a developement environment that would allow you
down download the cvs source and compile it?

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> Rich: Thanks.
> 
> I tried that, with and without any config files in /etc/asterisk. It 
> still falls over instantly, no messages other than 'Illegal Instruction'.
> Asterisk is running on other machines for me quite happily, but just 
> does not want to play nice on this box.
> 
> I'm sure I'm doing something silly, but for the life of me cannot see 
> what it is.
> 
> It does not get as far as writing anything to any log files in 
> /var/log/asterisk.
> 
> Roger
> 
> Rich Adamson wrote:
> 
> >Asterisk runs just fine on fc3. Best guess on your problem is that you've
> >got come default config parameters in /etc/asterisk directory that it is
> >not liking at all. You might try starting asterisk with 'asterisk -cvd'
> >and watch the output for errors.
> >
> >------------------------
> >  
> >
> >>Hi All:
> >>
> >>I've been through the compile/install procedure pointed out by Vassil: I 
> >>still crash on startup. Can anyone else give me some pointers, please?
> >>
> >>Roger
> >>
> >>Roger Hill wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Thanks Vassil - I'll try those pointers and report back.
> >>>
> >>>Roger
> >>>
> >>>Vassil Kolarov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hi Roger,
> >>>>
> >>>>Following this instructions:
> >>>>
> >>>>http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+Fedora+Core+3
> >>>>
> >>>>I was able to install and run Asterisk several times without problems.
> >>>>
> >>>>See also: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Linux+Fedora
> >>>>
> >>>>Regards,
> >>>>Vassil Kolarov
> >>>>www.ittconsult.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Roger Hill wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi all :
> >>>>>
> >>>>>My first posting to the group - please be gentle!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I've been messing with Asterisk for a couple of weeks now.
> >>>>>1.0.9 is running fine on an old laptop (300MHz, 128MB ram, Kubuntu), 
> >>>>>downloaded the binary package.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Now I'm trying to put the working installation on my production 
> >>>>>server along with HTTP etc.
> >>>>>( 700MHz, 256MB ram, uname -a gives "Linux coach.hillconsult.com 
> >>>>>2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 #1 Wed Nov 9 18:19:32 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 
> >>>>>GNU/Linux").
> >>>>>
> >>>>>That box, until yesterday, was running Fedora core 3. I tried the 
> >>>>>tarball download of 1.2.0.rc2, ran make OK, then make install, make 
> >>>>>samples.
> >>>>>When I tried to run Asterisk, I got (immediately) "Illegal 
> >>>>>Instruction".
> >>>>>Tried on my FC4 laptop, worked just fine.
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >
> >
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