[FATAL] Unable to connect to Asterisk Manager

Was having some issues with my PBX and did a couple of shutdowns after which it came up with the following error message: [FATAL] Unable to connect to Asterisk Manager from /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf. I’ve tried several solutions that I found in the forum such as making sure all passwords match, restarting asterisk, etc. Nothing has worked to fix the issue. I tried upgrading my installation from 4.211.64-6.sh to .7 but that didn’t work either. Any help would be appreciated.

Is Asterisk running as root