asterisk : Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?) [closed]

Answer 1

I have just installed asterisk 13.18.5 on CentOS7. After logging in as root, I was having the same problem and I just did "SELINUX=disabled" in /var/selinux/config and that was all. My asterisk started in verbose mode by doing asterisk -rvvvvvv. No errors !!!

Another way to get it done is to use "asterisk -&" command first and then wait for a while for an "OK" message from asterisk and then "asterisk -rvvvvv"

Answer 2

First check if the file /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exists if it doesn't, then the asterisk server is not running. So start it like

/usr/sbin/asterisk -gvvc

and then asterisk -r to drop to the command line prompt worked for me.

Answer 3

Try to use sudo, to run asterisk -r that works for me every time this error comes up.

Answer 4

In the source contrib directory are example scripts for init.d - it is simplest to run the server in background mode - the init scripts also contain a monitor to relaunch asterisk if it goes down.

Then you just need to use

sudo asterisk -vvvvvvvr 

• to connect to the server that is already running in background mode.

Note you need to run this as root to gain privileges to connect.

If you installed via a distro - then the init.d scripts are usually supplied as standard.

Answer 5

I had this problem today. It had nothing to do with any of the posted answers. I tried them all. My problem was a misconfiguration with the zaptel.conf (running old asterisk!). I had commented out some span details trying to troubleshoot a PRI issue. When the server got rebooted this issue presented itself. I was able to discover this by looking at the wanrouter messages in the logs. I noticed there were 3 errors, and the corresponding line numbers, once I corrected these issues, and ran an #asterisk -vvvvc the server came back up and everything worked.

Answer 6

I solved this problem by using: chown -R etc/asterisk chown -R var/lib/asterisk

this is bacause, as said here, I wasn't running as administrator. So, I made my user as owner of the Asterisk directories.