Amportal restart issues

General Help
1

Hi I have created a whole new install of freepbx and asterisk on Ubuntu 12.04LTS server and now I have problems when I restart freepbx. When I run amportal restart it just hangs on STARTING ASTERISK and doesn’t time out or nothing. I have to stop the process and start asterisk manually. I also get this before the hang…
SETTING FILE PERMISSIONS
chmod: cannot access /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/*': No such file or directory chown: cannot access/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin’: No such file or directory
Permissions OK
Any ideas?

2

A Random guess… you don’t have: /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin

What all did you install/compile before freepbx

3

Well I know I don’t have it but why is that? I followed this script… http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1986217

4

http://forums.asterisk.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81458

Looks like they put the files in:

/usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin/

so:
mkdir /var/lib/asterisk
ln -s /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
see if that fixes you…

It occurs to me the more correct way to do this is to edit amportal.conf with proper paths…

5

Ok that fixed the missing directory error now it still hangs on STARTING ASTERISK and just sits there and doesn’t time out.

6

can you start asterisk by hand?

sudo -u asterisk asterisk

7

Yes, funny thing is if I type in service asterisk restart it stops it but when it starts back up it says asterisk is already running. It’s like there are two installs of asterisk.

8

Ok got it to work. Did some diggings and had to edit the safe_asterisk file. Edit /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk and change line 17 from SAFE_AST_BACKGROUND=0 to SAFE_AST_BACKGROUND=1

9

Is Asterisk running as user Asterisk?

10

Yes it is.

11

Is apache2 running as asterisk?