asterisk must be running to connect with -r … you can su to asterisk user and run asterisk -vvvvvc in order to confirm it can start and from another session connect recursively … once confirmed you need to figure out whats going on with your startup script
root 1825 0.0 0.0 12944 976 pts/0 S+ 10:13 0:00 grep --color=auto sbin/asterisk
The process asterisk isn’t launched but How can I contact the user asterisk in the order to run asterisk -vvvvvvvc