Asterisk-1.8 No such command 'console'

system · February 28, 2011, 1:10pm

Hi,

I installed Asterisk 1.8 following “Asterisk: the definitive guide” on oreilly. I know it is not yet a complete guide.

I tried to use console dial and I got the no such command error. How can I solve this? Or what is the root error?

In make menuselect: <chan_console> and <chan_alsa> indicate XXX which means some dependent packages were missing at config time. Is that the point where I should start to solve the problem? If yes please tell me how.

Asterisk 1.8.2.2
CentOS 5.5
kernel: 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5

Thanks

david55 · February 28, 2011, 1:14pm

Yes. If a build dependency fails, the module won’t be built and if the module isn’t built, the commands it defines will not be installed.

If you look carefully at menuconfig’s display, you will see it telling you which dendencies failed. I can’t remember exactly where you have to put the cursor, etc., for this.

system · March 1, 2011, 12:48pm

menuselect says that chan_console depends on portaudio. I installed portaudio from source and re-configured menuselect, but the problem persisted: still I see XXX for chan_console.

Any exact solution?

david55 · March 1, 2011, 12:53pm

Did you re-run ./configure?

If not, do so, before running menuselect. If you did, look for other missing dependencies in menuselect, or for installation of portaudio in a place where configure can’t find it without help.

It is very unlikely you will get an explicit fix, because we don’t know what is wrong with your configuration.

system · March 1, 2011, 1:44pm

I did re-run ./configure in menuselect’s folder

As for portaudio I executed ./configure without specifying any explicit options.

I will try ./configure --help to find options for configuring menuselect with portaudio. Any other pointers?

Thanks so far for the help

david55 · March 1, 2011, 1:51pm

./configure must be run in the top level asterisk source code directory. There is no need to explicitly run it in the menuselect directory.

cuban_cigar · March 3, 2011, 11:05pm

ok, yum is the installer for centos

google string “yum portaudio”

This is what showed up:

yum -y install portaudio portaudio-devel

maybe a faster alternative for installing dependencies

system · March 5, 2011, 12:38pm

I fixed the portaudio dependency thing by doing:

because yum wasn’t able to find the packages

and

So now there is no XXX for chan_console in menuselect
chan_alsa and chan_oss are fine.

However, when I start asterisk: asterisk -c
I get the following list of errors:

CDR simple logging enabled.
197 modules will be loaded.
res_odbc loaded.
No directory user found, anonymous binding as default.
No directory URL or host found.
Cannot load LDAP RealTime driver.
No music on hold classes configured, disabling music on hold.
Cannot find variable 'SIPPEER' in tree 'description'
Cannot find variable 'SIPCHANINFO' in tree 'description'
Cannot find variable 'AGENT' in tree 'description'
set_channels failed: Invalid argument
Rate not correct, requested 8000, got 48000
[color=#BF0000]snd_pcm_open failed: No such file or directory[/color]
[color=#BF0000]Problem opening ALSA playback device[/color]
[color=#4000BF]Ignoring any changes to 'userbase' (on reload) at line 23.
Ignoring any changes to 'vmsecret' (on reload) at line 31.
Ignoring any changes to 'hassip' (on reload) at line 35.
Ignoring any changes to 'hasiax' (on reload) at line 39.
Ignoring any changes to 'hasmanager' (on reload) at line 47.[/color]
No Bluetooth devices found. Not loading module.
[color=#FF8000]Cannot find variable 'IAXPEER' in tree 'description'
Cannot find variable 'IAXVAR' in tree 'description'
No IAX provisioning configuration found, IAX provisioning disabled.[/color]
Cannot find variable 'MEETME_INFO' in tree 'description'
Failed to load configuration file. Module not activated.
Unable to load cdr_custom.conf. Not logging custom CSV CDRs.
Failed to load configuration file. Module not activated.
Failed to load configuration file. Module not activated.
Could not initialize cluster membership service: Try Again
Failed to load configuration file. Module activated with default settings.

first it was complaining about “permission denied” for snd_pcm_open. I did chmod -R a+rwX /dev/snd
and now it is complaining that it is not found.

/et/asound.conf looks like this:

pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 1 }
If I remove asound.conf, asterisk doesn’t start with alsa loaded.

lspci -v | grep -i audio gives:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

lsmod | grep -i snd gives:

snd_intel8x0           35421  1 
snd_ac97_codec         93025  1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus                6337  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           7877  0 
snd_seq_oss            32576  0 
snd_seq_midi_event     11073  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49585  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         11725  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42817  0 
snd_mixer_oss          19009  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                72133  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              24517  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    55749  10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              11553  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         14281  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

console dial 1001:

Failed to open stream - (-9985) Device unavailable

SIP registration is not working for something as simple as this:

[general]
port=5060
udpbindaddr=0.0.0.0

[2000]
type=friend
secret=<some pass>
host=dynamic

sip set debug on doesn’t show anything while Ekiga is trying to register

Sorry if this has been too long. If you think I should post some sections in different threads pls let me know.

P.S. this forum keeps looping to the index page whenever I try to post or review. Deleting cookies doesn’t help. It works after few trial … it is so annoying