# Asterisk hang when trying to access console **URL:** \ **Category:** Asterisk Support\ **Created:** [December 31, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460 "2025-12-31T16:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/1 "2025-12-31T16:41:52Z")
I just installed LTS22 on debian When I type sudo asterisk -cvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Unable to access the running directory (Permission denied). Changing to ‘/’ for compatibility. Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl. Use ‘asterisk -r’ to connect When I type sudo asterisk -rvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Asterisk 22.7.0, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2025, Sangoma Technologies Corporation and others. Created by Mark Spencer [markster@digium.com](mailto:markster@digium.com) Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type ‘core show warranty’ for details. This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type ‘core show license’ for details. Running as user ‘asterisk’ Running under group ‘asterisk’ and then the window freeze. I cannot type anything more, I’m obliged to reboot I beleive there is something to do with user permissions ps aux | grep bin/asterisk root 1369 0.0 0.0 3332 1456 pts/0 S+ 17:31 0:00 grep --color=auto bin/asterisk I tryed my best to make it start not under root but could not, to be honest I do not know how it does start at boot. It is not in crontab I did systemctl disable asterisk and I remover the asterisk file from /etc/init.d So I do not know : why it does start at boot ? Why it does start under root ? Why I cannot access to the console ? how can I handle all that ? ---
**Author:** ![Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Pooh](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Pooh)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/2 "2025-12-31T16:57:19Z")
On Wednesday 31 December 2025 at 17:42:54, Stephan via Asterisk Community wrote: > I just installed LTS22 on debian Please tell us which version of Debian, and how you installed Asterisk - was it the Debian Sid (unstable) package [Debian -- Details of package asterisk in sid](https://packages.debian.org/sid/asterisk) or did you build from source? Thanks, Antony. – The first fifty percent of an engineering project takes ninety percent of the time, and the remaining fifty percent takes another ninety percent of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/3 "2025-12-31T17:19:22Z")
sorry, I forgot that information in my post it is Debian 6.1.158-1 (2025-11-09) x86\_64 GNU/Linux I builded asterisk from sources yes ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/4 "2026-01-02T14:36:50Z")
I rebuilded it with the –with-jansson-bundled I removed any configuration file (all files in /etc/asterisk) it doesn’t change anything asterisk hang when I type sudo asterisk -rvvvvvvvv ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/5 "2026-01-02T15:18:09Z")
systemctl status asterisk.service - asterisk.service - Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon. Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/asterisk.service; disabled; preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2026-01-02 16:14:49 CET; 849ms ago TriggeredBy: \* asterisk.socket Process: 52414 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/asterisk -mqf -C /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 52414 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 16ms I cannot find anything in the var/log/asterisk files (all are almost empty) I do not know where to search ---
**Author:** ![Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Pooh](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Pooh)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/6 "2026-01-02T15:40:54Z")
On Friday 02 January 2026 at 16:28:50, Stephan via Asterisk Community wrote: > I cannot find anything in the var/log/asterisk files (all are almost empty) > I do not know where to search 1. When you built the source code, did you accept all default options, or did you change anything to your own preference? 2. Which user and group is asterisk (configured to be) running as? 3. does “ldd /usr/sbin/asterisk” show any shared libraries which are not being found? Antony. – “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” - Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, later consumed by Compaq, later merged with HP) ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/7 "2026-01-02T15:59:43Z")
Thank you for your answer 1/ except from -with-jansson-un… That I did The second time I compiled it, I did not change anything 2/ I’m logged as root, I builded it as root I beleive I chown -R asterisk:asterisk all files as it is supposed to run under asterisk user 3/ the result of ldd /usr/sbin/asterisk: ```auto linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffac5b1000) libasteriskssl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libasteriskssl.so.1 (0x00007ff6f6cf6000) libasteriskpj.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasteriskpj.so.2 (0x00007ff6f6400000) libxml2.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007ff6f6654000) libxslt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxslt.so.1 (0x00007ff6f6cb3000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ff6f6b54000) libssl.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.3 (0x00007ff6f6357000) libcrypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 (0x00007ff6f5e00000) liburiparser.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liburiparser.so.1 (0x00007ff6f633e000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff6f6648000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007ff6f6302000) libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007ff6f62f6000) libedit.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libedit.so.2 (0x00007ff6f62bc000) libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff6f5a00000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff6f5d20000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff6f581e000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff6f629c000) libicuuc.so.72 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.72 (0x00007ff6f5620000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff6f5d01000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007ff6f5cd2000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff6f6d08000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007ff6f5c9f000) libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007ff6f5c89000) libicudata.so.72 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.72 (0x00007ff6f3800000) libmd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmd.so.0 (0x00007ff6f628f000) ``` ---
**Author:** ![david551](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@david551](https://community.asterisk.org/u/david551)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/8 "2026-01-02T16:14:31Z")
> [@Stephan](#): > > I cannot type anything more, I’m obliged to reboot I can’t think of any reason that Asterisk would do anything to block the use of any of Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z or Ctrl -Alt-Fn. ---
**Author:** ![Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Pooh](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Pooh)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/9 "2026-01-02T16:26:13Z")
On Friday 02 January 2026 at 17:10:23, Stephan via Asterisk Community wrote: > 2/ I’m logged as root, I builded it as root > I believe I chown -R asterisk:asterisk all files as it is supposed to run > under asterisk user Okay, what do you get for: grep ASTERISK /etc/default/asterisk grep run /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf grep asterisk /etc/passwd ls -Ald /etc/asterisk Also, when you say “chown -R asterisk:asterisk all files” what _exactly_ do you mean by “all files”? What directory name/s did you give to the chown command? Antony. – The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage. ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/10 "2026-01-02T17:13:52Z")
and yet, Ctrl-c or z has no effect I’m obliged to kill the process ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/11 "2026-01-02T17:36:59Z")
Thank you for your help, I’m really lost ! #grep ASTERISK /etc/default/asterisk #grep run /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf astrundir =\> /var/run/asterisk runuser = asterisk ; The user to run as. rungroup = asterisk ; The group to run as. # grep asterisk /etc/passwd asterisk:x:999:1001::/var/lib/asterisk:/bin/sh # ls -Ald /etc/asterisk drwxr-xr-x 4 asterisk asterisk 4096 Jan 2 15:49 /etc/asterisk What directory name/s did you give to the chown command? chown –recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/asterisk chown –recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/log/asterisk chown –recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/run/asterisk chown –recursive asterisk:asterisk /var/spool/asterisk chown –recursive asterisk:asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk ---
**Author:** ![Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Pooh](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Pooh)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/12 "2026-01-02T18:00:16Z")
On Friday 02 January 2026 at 18:47:39, Stephan via Asterisk Community wrote: > Thank you for your help, I’m really lost ! Nothing you’ve posted as answers to my questions stands out as unexpected or a potential reason for your problem. However, given that you have installed from source Asterisk 22.7.0 on a Debian machine, and that identical version is available as a Debian package (in sid), I suggest you try uninstalling what you currently have on the machine and then install the packaged version instead. There _are_ some differences in the compiler options between the “standard Asterisk” build-from-source process and what the Debian maintainers do, however I suspect these are unlikely to affect your usage of the system, and it’s almost certainly a far simpler way of getting what you want, installed and running. I have been using the packaged Debian version for _many_ years now, and have never run into a problem where I had to build from source to resolve it. Unless anyone else can chip in with some furterh suggestions on how to find out why your machine is behaving the way it is, I think this might be your simplest and easiest solution. Antony. – It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, ut rather when there is nothing left to subtract. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery ---
**Author:** ![cable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cable](https://community.asterisk.org/u/cable)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/13 "2026-01-02T18:34:26Z")
> [@Stephan](#): > > sudo asterisk -cvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Use: systemctl disable asterisk The next time you reboot you can start Asterisk with your command which gives the console screen or ‘sudo asterisk’. ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/14 "2026-01-03T18:08:48Z")
I did disabled asterisk for reboot when I do ps -ef | grep asterisk I only see the grep process so asterisk does not seems to be running ps -ef | grep asterisk root 528065 2128 0 19:03 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto asterisk however, when I do sudo asterisk I got this Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl. Use ‘asterisk -r’ to connect. then when I do sudo asterisk -rvvvvvvvdddddd Seeding global EID ‘00:15:5d:00:64:02’ from ‘eth0’ using ‘siocgifhwaddr’ Parsing /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf Asterisk 22.7.0, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2025, Sangoma Technologies Corporation and others. Created by Mark Spencer [markster@digium.com](mailto:markster@digium.com) Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type ‘core show warranty’ for details. This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type ‘core show license’ for details. Running as user ‘asterisk’ Running under group ‘asterisk’ Killed it hang before the killed word. Killed is written when I kill the process ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/15 "2026-01-03T18:25:01Z")
I do not know how to install “the packaged version” I do not know where to get it neither how to install it Before I do that I would like to try to compile it again with option I beleive I have selected several thing in the menuselect (like gsm, binaural, french, …) I would like to reset the menuselect ‘ option to the default how can I do that ? ---
**Author:** ![cable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@cable](https://community.asterisk.org/u/cable)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/16 "2026-01-03T18:50:17Z")
> [@Stephan](#): > > Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl. Use ‘asterisk -r’ to connect. Try: sudo asterisk -r core stop now sudo asterisk -cTvvvvvvvvvv ---
**Author:** ![sedwards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@sedwards](https://community.asterisk.org/u/sedwards)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:22am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/17 "2026-01-04T00:22:37Z")
> [@cable](#): > > sudo asterisk -cTvvvvvvvvvv Adding some '-d’s may also yield clues. > [@Stephan](#): > > I do not know how to install “the packaged version” The command may be some variation of: ```auto sudo apt install asterisk ``` It would probably be a good idea to remove all trace of your current install first. Something like: ```auto sudo find / -xdev |& grep --ignore-case asterisk ``` Should yield clues. ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/18 "2026-01-04T12:39:48Z")
sudo asterisk -cTvvvvvvvvvvdddddddd Seeding global EID ‘00:15:5d:00:64:02’ from ‘eth0’ using ‘siocgifhwaddr’ Parsing /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf Unable to access the running directory (Permission denied). Changing to ‘/’ for compatibility. Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl. Use ‘asterisk -r’ to connect. ---
**Author:** ![Stephan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@Stephan](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Stephan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/20 "2026-01-04T12:57:40Z")
here is the output of sudo find / -xdev |& grep --ignore-case asterisk [list.txt](https://community.asterisk.org/uploads/short-url/dhnexOMCsI4HnCtru6teJ7w4Xzx.txt) (1.1 MB) ---
**Author:** ![Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Pooh](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Pooh)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460/21 "2026-01-04T12:58:41Z")
On Sunday 04 January 2026 at 13:52:27, Stephan via Asterisk Community wrote: > how does this remove all traces ? > > sudo find / -xdev |& grep --ignore-case asterisk It doesn’t remove anything - it tells you where things need to be removed from. Antony. – I want to build a machine that will be proud of me. - Danny Hillis, creator of The Connection Machine [Next page](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-hang-when-trying-to-access-console/111460.md?page=2)