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      Bastion
      last edited by

      Hi All,

      "/var/run" is cleaned at startup and hence "/var/run/asterisk" needs to be chowned in the asterisk init script. Here is a quick fix (amd64) :

      1- Edit "/usr/pbi/asterisk-amd64/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk" and after the line "reload_cmd=asterisk_reload", add the following one :
      start_precmd="chown -R asterisk:wheel /var/run/asterisk"

      2- Create the missed link

      ln /usr/pbi/asterisk-amd64/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk /usr/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk

      3- Start asterisk or reboot

      /usr/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk start

      Regards,

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        matthijs
        last edited by

        Hi Bastion,

        I tried your solution but Asterisk is not starting after a reboot in my situation (Alix board i386)
        (I have to manualy start it)

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          Bastion
          last edited by

          Hi matthijs,

          I've tested it on amd64/i386 with 2.2 and 2.2.1 many times, and had it working on all tests.
          Did you try it on a fresh install  !!?

          Cordially,

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            matthijs
            last edited by

            Hi Bastion, strange, it worked after a second reboot (I didnt change anything)

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              matthijs
              last edited by

              Rebooted again and it failed again to autostart, it sometimes works sometimes not
              Did also a clean install, same behaviour, did you also test it on a nanobsd i386 (Alix board) ?
              Because sometimes I also have the issue that OpenVPN fails to autostart
              The Alix board is quite slow at things, so maybe things are not proparly stopped at a shut down\reboot, or things time-out or something during startup.

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                doktornotor Banned
                last edited by

                I bet about 99% of the inexplicable package issues would be solved by abandoning the PBI packaging POS. Really hope it happens very soon.

                (And pretty much can understand that people's motivation to maintain packages in their free time is about zero at this point. Most of time is wasted on debugging the packaging, instead of development and features.  >:( )

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                  matthijs
                  last edited by

                  Rebooted again and everything started succesfully
                  This time I waited a little longer before logging into the webinterface.
                  Maybe the problem is related with logging into soon after a reboot (interfering with processes still starting in the background)

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                    Bastion
                    last edited by

                    matthijs,

                    After rebooting, pfSense normally needs a bit "patience/time" to autostart all services …

                    P.S : Agree ! doktornotor  ;)

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                      AndreasSchneider
                      last edited by

                      Package seems to be broken..

                      install on new 2.2.2 -> asterisk dont start

                      after apply Bastions dirty workaround ends up with -> no asterisk_enable in rc.conf after manual add-in in rc.conf -> pam_error

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                        AndreasSchneider
                        last edited by

                        Update:

                        after make a new /etc/rc.asterisk an put asterisk_enable=YES into it … it works again

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                          carlm
                          last edited by

                          I just installed Asterisk on PfSense 2.2.2.
                          I ran into some of the problems mentioned in this thread.
                          These are my notes on solutions to the problems.

                          1. Installation

                          Installation takes a long, long time (on my box, about 24.5 minutes AFTER download is complete).
                          You can't see what's going on in the web UI.
                          I recommend enabling ssh, logging in to ssh and issuing the following command at the ssh command prompt:

                          pfSsh.php playback installpkg Asterisk

                          After a few minutes it will say 'Done' and the cursor will remain at the end of that line.
                          It isn't done: it's just done with the download.
                          Wait until it's really done – you'll know from the console output. Be patient.

                          I'm not sure if this method installs the PfSense GUI stuff.
                          If, after this step, you don't have an Asterisk entry in the PfSense Status menu, go to
                          System->Packages and under Installed Packages->Asterisk click on the 'xml' button.

                          2. Post-install fixes

                          First, do this stuff:

                          https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=47210.msg490067#msg490067

                          Next, to fix the Asterisk log warnings about res_snmp.so and libperl.so, do the following:

                          • under Diagnostics->NanoBSD set Media Read/Write status to Read/Write

                          • log in with ssh, start a shell and cd to /usr/pbi/asterisk-<arch>/local/lib
                                note: replace <arch>with i386 or amd64, depending on your system

                          • issue the following command at the ssh command prompt:
                                ln -s perl5/5.18/mach/CORE/libperl.so

                          • under Diagnostics->NanoBSD set Media Read/Write status to Read-Only

                          • under Status->Asterisk->Log press 'Clear log'

                          • under Status->Asterisk->Commands press 'Restart Asterisk'

                          • under Status->Asterisk->Log check the log; there should be no WARNINGs

                          Hope this helps. I wanted to summarize everything in one place.</arch></arch>

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                            deesmith
                            last edited by

                            Hi,

                            first thanks for the hard work everyone is putting into this, I migrated over to Pfsense several months ago and I've come to enjoy the flexibility available. Now after the Asterisk update a couple of months ago the module chan_sccp.so no longer works, I was relying on a pre-built deb package. Can someone please build the module to support the latest build of pfsense and asterisk.

                            Thanks in advance.

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                              zhhh
                              last edited by

                              The package installation failed on pfsense 2.2.3 i386  :-\ help plz!!!

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                                ben.suffolk
                                last edited by

                                I Have the Asterisk Package Installed (0.3.1) on my pfSense system (2.2.2-RELEASE (amd64)) but there does not seem to be any of the modules installed. The config file suggests "/usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules" would be the place, but that directory does not exist.

                                This means things like musiconhold won't work.

                                Have I missed something out when installing this package?

                                Regards

                                Ben

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                                  carlm
                                  last edited by

                                  @ben.suffolk:

                                  I Have the Asterisk Package Installed (0.3.1) on my pfSense system (2.2.2-RELEASE (amd64)) but there does not seem to be any of the modules installed. The config file suggests "/usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules" would be the place, but that directory does not exist.

                                  This means things like musiconhold won't work.

                                  Have I missed something out when installing this package?

                                  Regards

                                  Ben

                                  I have the same package version installed on the same pfSense version, but i386 instead of amd64.
                                  Yes, according to asterisk.conf the modules directory is /usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules.
                                  No, that directory doesn't exist on my system either.
                                  But Asterisk works fine.
                                  If no modules were being loaded Asterisk would be basically dead.
                                  Are you speculating that something will not work if you attempt it, or have you actually observed that Asterisk does not work?

                                  For reference du -h /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386 reports 472MB. amd64 should be somewhat larger.

                                  EDIT:
                                  To see what modules are loaded issue the following command at the Asterisk CLI prompt:

                                  module show

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                                    doktornotor Banned
                                    last edited by

                                    The asterisk.conf references the chrooted paths. (For details on PBI junk, search this forum…)

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                                      ben.suffolk
                                      last edited by

                                      @carlm:

                                      If no modules were being loaded Asterisk would be basically dead.
                                      Are you speculating that something will not work if you attempt it, or have you actually observed that Asterisk does not work?

                                      For reference du -h /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386 reports 472MB. amd64 should be somewhat larger.

                                      EDIT:
                                      To see what modules are loaded issue the following command at the Asterisk CLI prompt:

                                      module show

                                      Your right, lots of modules are loaded. What does not work for me is the music on hold command. Thats when I started looking and found the modules directory missing.

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                                        nguyentan1980
                                        last edited by

                                        Please help me to install Asterisk-GUI on PFsense. I'm a newbie on this. My Pfsense box version is:
                                        2.2.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                                        FreeBSD 10.1

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                                          carlm
                                          last edited by

                                          @nguyentan1980:

                                          Please help me to install Asterisk-GUI on PFsense. I'm a newbie on this. My Pfsense box version is:
                                          2.2.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                                          FreeBSD 10.1

                                          I assume you are referring to the old Asterisk GUI developed by Digium.
                                          Before doing anything take a look at this page:

                                          https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+GUI

                                          There is no pfSense package for Asterisk GUI. Someone would have to make one, assuming it would be practical to run Asterisk GUI on pfSense (maybe not).

                                          Alternately, Asterisk GUI doesn't need to run on the same machine that Asterisk runs on – it communicates with Asterisk via AMI. A more practical approach would be to build and run Asterisk GUI on a separate UNIX/Linux box, if you have one.

                                          Note: I have never used Asterisk GUI. If you read the web page linked above you'll know as much about it as I do.

                                          Personally, I just configured Asterisk manually. Now I know what goes on "under the hood."

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                                            nguyentan1980
                                            last edited by

                                            Thanks Carlm for your advice.

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