Local channel question

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I am currently testing Asterisk and am trying to figure out which config files I actually need.
When I first installed I created the samples and went from there, but now I’m using SIP, Voicemail, Features, Parking, and a few others. I noticed when I cleared out the /etc/asterisk directory and added back only the conf files I thought I needed, local channels that worked previously suddenly stopped working in my config. I added back all the conf files to /etc/asterisk and the local channels work again.

Do local channels need a certain conf file to work? Please advise. Thanks!

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It could be modules.conf that you were missing and the autoloader wasn’t loading chan_local

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Not that I’m aware of, but it could be that it has a dependency on a module that wasn’t able to load due to a lack of configuration file.

What version of Asterisk is this under? Later versions of Asterisk have chan_local integrated into the core of Asterisk.

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@creslin287 This is on Asterisk 13.11.2. Would having a patch running on it make any difference? I wasn’t thinking it would but I do have the Cisco Usecallmanager patch on this system, just FYI. I did do some research and see that chan_local is in the core so it wasn’t making sense to me that it wasn’t working unless I put all the samples back into /etc/asterisk.

@johnkiniston I do actually have modules.conf in there. Here’s a list of what’s in my /etc/asterisk dir:

alsa.conf      
cli_aliases.conf  
console.conf     
features.conf     
modules.conf      
queues.conf      
rtp.conf  
sip_notify.conf  
voicemail.conf
asterisk.conf  
codecs.conf       
extensions.conf  
indications.conf  
musiconhold.conf  
res_parking.conf  
sip.conf  
users.conf

Some of those I probably don’t really need, that was just me guessing at what it is that’s missing.

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Can you define what exactly you mean by “stopped working”? Did you see a log message or something?

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Sure. When I have the sample configs in /etc/asterisk I’m able to dial the channel and the call completes as expected(it’s a page to a group of phones and console/alsa.) If I remove all but the config files that I listed above and restart Asterisk, I can no longer dial the channel. The log doesn’t seem to even show an error. The call just doesn’t complete and I get a reorder tone or congestion tone on the phone I tried dialing from.

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Turn up the logging and debugging until you do get an error.

chan_local never used to access any configuration files. I haven’t checked recent ones, but can’t think why that would change.

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I’ve turned it up a lot and still had no errors.
I was running the CLI with asterisk -rvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Trying to get it as high as it can go and it shows no errors.

I did turn debugging on and here’s the output from that:

   -- Executing [#3103@phones:1] Goto("SIP/102-00000029", "pagers,3,1") in new stack
-- Goto (pagers,3,1)
[Dec  6 08:35:11] DEBUG[7491][C-00000021]: pbx.c:2825 pbx_extension_helper: Launching 'Page'
-- Executing [3@pagers:1] Page("SIP/102-00000029", "LOCAL/Cisco@pagers&LOCAL/Console@pagers") in new stack
[Dec  6 08:35:11] DEBUG[7491][C-00000021]: pbx.c:4296 __ast_pbx_run: Spawn extension (pagers,3,1) exited non-zero on 'SIP/102-00000029'
  == Spawn extension (pagers, 3, 1) exited non-zero on 'SIP/102-00000029'
[Dec  6 08:35:11] DEBUG[7491][C-00000021]: channel.c:2537 ast_softhangup_nolock: Soft-Hanging (0x10) up channel 'SIP/102-00000029'
[Dec  6 08:35:11] DEBUG[7491][C-00000021]: channel.c:2686 ast_hangup: Hanging up channel 'SIP/102-00000029'
[Dec  6 08:35:11] DEBUG[7491][C-00000021]: chan_sip.c:7437 sip_hangup: Hangup call SIP/102-00000029, SIP callid 001fca34-5808001f-9aa44d92-fac886d5@192.168.4.150
[Dec  6 08:35:11] DEBUG[7491][C-00000021]: chan_sip.c:7049 update_call_counter: Updating call counter for incoming call
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Is your extensions.conf file using includes and you’ve removed the files it includes?

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I am using an include for “parkedcalls” however I have the parking conf file res_parking.conf

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Any reason it would need confbridge.conf? I finally started just adding and removing conf files until it worked and that is the one that did the trick.

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Ah, yes. Page uses ConfBridge underneath and the confbridge.conf file contains the default settings for things.

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