[SOLVED] Can't make asterisk 1.8 to run on VM with CentOS 6

[stanimir_ss]

Hello guys,

I’ve installed many Asterisk (1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8) servers on real machines running CentOS 5.4.
Now, it’s my first try to install Asterisk 1.8.17.0 on a VM running CentOS 6.3

• When I run service asterisk start there is no output and asterisk doesn’t start.
• When I try to run it manually with /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk, the output is as follows:

Cannot find specified TTY (9)

• Then I saw that this can be fixed if I comment the row for TTY in safe_asterisk. After doing that, the output of safe_asterisk is:

/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 145: 9808 Illegal instruction (core dumped) nice -n $PRIORITY ${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -f ${CLIARGS} ${ASTARGS}
Asterisk ended with exit status 132
Asterisk exited on signal 4.
cat: /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid: No such file or directory
Automatically restarting Asterisk.

I’m stuck here and I don’t know what else to try. I don’t have asterisk log file neither as it doesn’t start at all.

Processor info:

[root@pbx ~]# lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 0
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 58
Stepping: 9
CPU MHz: 3292.697
BogoMIPS: 6584.82
Virtualization: VT-x

[root@pbx ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 3292.697
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc arat pni monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 6585.39
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]

<same for processor 1>

When I run asterisk’s ./configure it ends with:

configure: Package configured for:
configure: OS type : linux-gnu
configure: Host CPU : i686
configure: build-cpu:vendor:os: i686 : pc : linux-gnu :
configure: host-cpu:vendor:os: i686 : pc : linux-gnu :

You can find the configure.log here http://www.sendspace.com/file/lqx52c.
(Click “Click here to start download from sendspace”)

Your help will be much appreciated. Thanks!

[david55]

Other people have reported problems with illegal instructions when using VMs. I’m not sure it was here or on the issue tracker, but searching for illegal instruction and virtual machine ought to find something.

I assume the VM in question doesnt have any consoles at all.

I’m still not convinced that it is sensible to run real time software on virtual machines.

[stanimir_ss]

Thanks for pointing me the direction for the search! I knew there was something wrong with the processor or similar, but this time I found a solution posted in the asterisk issue tracker. Seems that a workaround is to remove the flag BUILD_NATIVE when calling make menuselect. After recompiling it’s running ok, the only tiny thing that left is that when I call “service asterisk start” it doesn’t show “ok” but it starts it. If I call “service asterisk stop” it properly shows “ok”

[system]

@stanimir_ss

Thanks for pointing me the direction for the search! I knew there was something wrong with the processor or similar, but this time I found a solution posted in the asterisk issue tracker. Seems that a workaround is to remove the flag BUILD_NATIVE when calling make menuselect. After recompiling it’s running ok, the only tiny thing that left is that when I call “service asterisk start” it doesn’t show “ok” but it starts it. If I call “service asterisk stop” it properly shows “ok”

Where did you remove the flag BUILD_NATIVE?
EDIT: Found it, but it didn’t work.