Unable to connect to remote Asterisk error

[vcallaway]

Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)

This is displayed when you issue an "amportal stop" command.

The system stops and starts properly, but does display an error. Has something changed on how amportal talks to asterisk?

Purple install btw.

 

[wardmundy]

We think it's just a status message alerting you to the fact that FreePBX can no longer talk to Asterisk... since it's stopped. No big deal.

 

[luckman212]

I see this error too. Should I just turn and look the other way? I think this may have to do with the following lines being commented out of /etc/asterisk.conf?

; Changing the following lines may compromise your security.
;[files]
;astctlpermissions = 0660
;astctlowner = root
;astctlgroup = apache
;astctl = asterisk.ctl

If I uncomment that section, what are the security risks? I don't know what the asterisk.ctl file does really...

 

[dswartz]

here in the freepbx_engine:

stop_asterisk() {
echo
echo "STOPPING ASTERISK"
pid_length=`$PIDOF asterisk|awk '{print length($0)}'`
if [ "$pid_length" != "0" -a "$pid_length" != "" ]
then
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "core stop gracefully" | grep -v\
"No such command"
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "stop gracefully" | grep -v -E "\
No such command|deprecated"
echo "Asterisk Stopped"
fi
}

due to syntax changes in recent asterisk CLI, it can't be sure which command to use to shutdown asterisk. if the first works, the second won't. kinda ugly but harmless... p.s. i guess the second one could grep -v for the failure to connect, but no big deal.

 

[jroper]

Hi

It's a run file, you will see it anyway in /var/run/asterisk.

I would suggest leaving those settings alone, and ignoring the earlier error.

However, I think this error is an "unwanted feature" of the amportal stop start process, I did look at it some time ago, and it seems to try and stop asterisk twice, hence the error on the second stop command.

Joe

 

[luckman212]

Thanks edit: (doh I am retarded)

 

[dswartz]

look at the code i posted?

 

[luckman212]

For anyone who cares, I searched and found 3 copies of 'freepbx_engine' on my system:
/usr/src/freepbx/amp_conf/bin/freepbx_engine
/var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx_engine
/var/www/html/admin/modules/framework/bin/freepbx_engine

the one that you need to edit is highlighted up there in blue (in /var/lib/....)

I commented out the following line (again in blue)
/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "core stop gracefully" | grep -v "No such command"
# /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "stop gracefully" | grep -v -E "No such command|deprecated"
echo "Asterisk Stopped"

and it fixed the problem for me.
thanks dswartz & jroper for the guidance!

 

[wardmundy]

And Here's the One-Liner Fix...

sed -i 's|/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "stop gracefully"|# /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "stop gracefully"|' /var/lib/asterisk/bin/freepbx_engine

 

[tm1000]

And Here's the One-Liner Fix...

FreePBX fix? Going to Post it as a bug fix/feature request.

 

[tm1000]

freepbx.org/trac/ticket/4693