Trouble starting asterisk

Hello all,
I recently downloaded the latest version of asterisk 1.2.9.1 and ran:

make clean
make install

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/asterisk-1.2.9.1/stdtime'
 +---- Asterisk Installation Complete -------+
 +                                           +
 +    YOU MUST READ THE SECURITY DOCUMENT    +
 +                                           +
 + Asterisk has successfully been installed. +
 + If you would like to install the sample   +
 + configuration files (overwriting any      +
 + existing config files), run:              +
 +                                           +
 +               make samples                +
 +                                           +
 +-----------------  or ---------------------+
 +                                           +
 + You can go ahead and install the asterisk +
 + program documentation now or later run:   +
 +                                           +
 +              make progdocs                +
 +                                           +
 + **Note** This requires that you have      +
 + doxygen installed on your local system    +
 +-------------------------------------------+

Seems like the install was successful but when I run

asterisk -vvvc
I get the following:

[root@localhost asterisk-1.2.9.1]# asterisk -vvvc
Asterisk 1.2.9.1, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2006 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type '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 'show license' for details.
=========================================================================
Unable to open logger.conf: No such file or directory
Asterisk Event Logger Started /var/log/asterisk/event_log
Asterisk Dynamic Loader loading preload modules:
  == Manager registered action Ping
  == Manager registered action Events
  == Manager registered action Logoff
  == Manager registered action Hangup
  == Manager registered action Status
  == Manager registered action Setvar
  == Manager registered action Getvar
  == Manager registered action Redirect
  == Manager registered action Originate
  == Manager registered action Command
  == Manager registered action ExtensionState
  == Manager registered action AbsoluteTimeout
  == Manager registered action MailboxStatus
  == Manager registered action MailboxCount
  == Manager registered action ListCommands
Jun  8 16:03:20 NOTICE[14995]: manager.c:1678 init_manager: Unable to open management configuration manager.conf.  Call management disabled.
Jun  8 16:03:20 NOTICE[14995]: cdr.c:1191 do_reload: CDR simple logging enabled.
  == RTP Allocating from port range 5000 -> 31000
Asterisk PBX Core Initializing
Registering builtin applications:
 [AbsoluteTimeout]
  == Registered application 'AbsoluteTimeout'
 [Answer]
  == Registered application 'Answer'
 [BackGround]
  == Registered application 'BackGround'
 [Busy]
  == Registered application 'Busy'
 [Congestion]
  == Registered application 'Congestion'
 [DigitTimeout]
  == Registered application 'DigitTimeout'
 [Goto]
  == Registered application 'Goto'
 [GotoIf]
  == Registered application 'GotoIf'
 [GotoIfTime]
  == Registered application 'GotoIfTime'
 [ExecIfTime]
  == Registered application 'ExecIfTime'
 [Hangup]
  == Registered application 'Hangup'
 [NoOp]
  == Registered application 'NoOp'
 [Progress]
  == Registered application 'Progress'
 [ResetCDR]
  == Registered application 'ResetCDR'
 [ResponseTimeout]
  == Registered application 'ResponseTimeout'
 [Ringing]
  == Registered application 'Ringing'
 [SayNumber]
  == Registered application 'SayNumber'
 [SayDigits]
  == Registered application 'SayDigits'
 [SayAlpha]
  == Registered application 'SayAlpha'
 [SayPhonetic]
  == Registered application 'SayPhonetic'
 [SetAccount]
  == Registered application 'SetAccount'
 [SetAMAFlags]
  == Registered application 'SetAMAFlags'
 [SetGlobalVar]
  == Registered application 'SetGlobalVar'
 [SetLanguage]
  == Registered application 'SetLanguage'
 [Set]
  == Registered application 'Set'
 [SetVar]
  == Registered application 'SetVar'
 [ImportVar]
  == Registered application 'ImportVar'
 [Wait]
  == Registered application 'Wait'
 [WaitExten]
  == Registered application 'WaitExten'
Asterisk Dynamic Loader Starting:
 [res_musiconhold.so] => (Music On Hold Resource)
  == Registered application 'MusicOnHold'
  == Registered application 'WaitMusicOnHold'
  == Registered application 'SetMusicOnHold'
  == Registered application 'StartMusicOnHold'
  == Registered application 'StopMusicOnHold'
 [res_monitor.so] => (Call Monitoring Resource).c:1217 load_module: No music on hold classes configured, disabling music on hold.
  == Registered application 'Monitor'
  == Registered application 'StopMonitor'
  == Registered application 'ChangeMonitor'
  == Manager registered action Monitor
  == Manager registered action StopMonitor
  == Manager registered action ChangeMonitor
 [res_agi.so] => (Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI))
  == Registered application 'DeadAGI'
  == Registered application 'EAGI'
  == Registered application 'AGI'
 [res_features.so] => (Call Features Resource)
    -- Registered extension context 'parkedcalls'
    -- Added extension '700' priority 1 to parkedcalls
  == Registered application 'ParkedCall'
  == Registered application 'Park'
  == Manager registered action ParkedCalls
 [res_crypto.so] => (Cryptographic Digital Signatures)
    -- Loaded PUBLIC key 'freeworlddialup'
    -- Loaded PUBLIC key 'iaxtel'
 [res_indications.so] => (Indications Configuration)
  == Registered application 'PlayTones'
  == Registered application 'StopPlayTones'
 [res_adsi.so] => (ADSI Resource)
 [pbx_realtime.so] => (Realtime Switch)
 [pbx_config.so] => (Text Extension Configuration)
Jun  8 16:03:20 WARNING[14995]: pbx.c:3762 ast_merge_contexts_and_delete: Requested contexts didn't get merged
 [pbx_ael.so] => (Asterisk Extension Language Compiler)
Jun  8 16:03:20 WARNING[14995]: pbx_ael.c:1146 ast_ael_compile: Unable to open '/etc/asterisk/extensions.ael': No such file or directory
Jun  8 16:03:20 WARNING[14995]: pbx.c:3762 ast_merge_contexts_and_delete: Requested contexts didn't get merged
 [pbx_dundi.so] => (Distributed Universal Number Discovery (DUNDi))
Jun  8 16:03:20 ERROR[14995]: pbx_dundi.c:4574 set_config: Unable to load config dundi.conf
  == Using TOS bits 0
  == DUNDi Ready and Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 4520
  == Registered application 'DUNDiLookup'
  == Registered custom function DUNDILOOKUP
 [pbx_functions.so] => (Builtin dialplan functions)
  == Registered custom function MD5
  == Registered custom function CHECK_MD5
  == Registered custom function MATH
  == Registered custom function GROUP_COUNT
  == Registered custom function GROUP_MATCH_COUNT
  == Registered custom function GROUP
  == Registered custom function GROUP_LIST
  == Registered custom function FIELDQTY
  == Registered custom function REGEX
  == Registered custom function LEN
  == Registered custom function STRFTIME
  == Registered custom function EVAL
  == Registered custom function CDR
  == Registered custom function ISNULL
  == Registered custom function SET
  == Registered custom function EXISTS
  == Registered custom function IF
  == Registered custom function IFTIME
  == Registered custom function ENV
  == Registered custom function DB
  == Registered custom function DB_EXISTS
  == Registered custom function TIMEOUT
  == Registered custom function LANGUAGE
  == Registered custom function MUSICCLASS
 [pbx_spool.so] => (Outgoing Spool Support)
 [pbx_loopback.so] => (Loopback Switch)
 [chan_sip.so] => (Session Initiation Protocol (SIP))
Jun  8 16:03:20 NOTICE[14995]: chan_sip.c:12485 reload_config: Unable to load config sip.conf
  == Registered channel type 'SIP' (Session Initiation Protocol (SIP))
  == Registered application 'SIPDtmfMode'
  == Registered application 'SIPAddHeader'
  == Registered application 'SIPGetHeader'
  == Registered custom function SIP_HEADER
  == Registered custom function SIPPEER
  == Registered custom function SIPCHANINFO
  == Registered custom function CHECKSIPDOMAIN
  == Manager registered action SIPpeers
  == Manager registered action SIPshowpeer
 [chan_iax2.so] => (Inter Asterisk eXchange (Ver 2))
  == Registered custom function IAXPEER
  == Registered application 'IAX2Provision'
  == Manager registered action IAXpeers
  == Manager registered action IAXnetstats
Jun  8 16:03:20 ERROR[14995]: chan_iax2.c:8633 set_config: Unable to load config iax.conf
  == Registered channel type 'IAX2' (Inter Asterisk eXchange Driver (Ver 2))
  == IAX Ready and Listening
  == Loaded firmware 'iaxy.bin'
Jun  8 16:03:20 NOTICE[14995]: iax2-provision.c:515 iax_provision_reload: No IAX provisioning configuration found, IAX provisioning disabled.
 [chan_local.so] => (Local Proxy Channel)
  == Registered channel type 'Local' (Local Proxy Channel Driver)
 [chan_features.so] => (Feature Proxy Channel)
  == Registered channel type 'Feature' (Feature Proxy Channel Driver)
 [chan_mgcp.so] => (Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP))
Jun  8 16:03:20 NOTICE[14995]: chan_mgcp.c:4113 reload_config: Unable to load config mgcp.conf, MGCP disabled
  == Registered channel type 'MGCP' (Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP))
 [chan_phone.so] => (Linux Telephony API Support)
Jun  8 16:03:20 ERROR[14995]: chan_phone.c:1305 load_module: Unable to load config phone.conf
Jun  8 16:03:20 WARNING[14995]: loader.c:414 __load_resource: chan_phone.so: load_module failed, returning -1
Jun  8 16:03:20 WARNING[14995]: loader.c:554 load_modules: Loading module chan_phone.so failed!

If I run asterisk -r I get this error:

[root@localhost asterisk-1.2.9.1]# asterisk -r
Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
[root@localhost asterisk-1.2.9.1]#

Any ideas what may be wrong?

TIA!

BTW, I am running it on Fedora core 5.
Funny thing is that I cannot find the asterisk.conf file. I looked in /etc/asterisk and that dir is empty. I issue a #>find / | grep asterisk.conf and all I get is a asterisk.conf.README

so Asterisk is looking for .conf files, and you don’t have any … it then croaks. sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

either create your own configuration files, or run “make samples” (as suggested by “make install”) and edit those.

Out of curiosity, what is the minimum set of configuration files that Asterisk will start up with? Or… does it require all the config files installed by the samples make target?

Did you upgrade from prievious. If so remount /var/lib/asterisk/modules then reinstall 1.2.9.1.

Or edit /etc/asterisk/modules…

That is for loading modules in asterisk.

Do this
noload chan_phone.so