"Unable to connect to remote asterisk"

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

I can no longer connect to my Asterisk:

[quote]root@athomehost:~# asterisk -r
Asterisk 1.8.4, Copyright © 1999 - 2010 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer 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.

Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /opt/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)
root@athomehost:~# ls -l /opt/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 22 14:03 /opt/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl[/quote]

asterisk.ctl doe s exist, however the file is of size 0. I think that I received a call at 14:03 (time shown by the file). What needs to be done to correct this problem? How did it get in to such a sad state?

2

Try restarting Asterisk

3

I have tried to restart asterisk several times and rebooted the platform. No joy.

Are there any diagnostics that can be performed to determine the problem?

Update: Power ON Reset seemed to remove this problem. I am concerned that I do not understand what happened or why it happened. The only change made was to sip.conf and restrict the codec:

[callcentric]
; 9/9/11: attempt to restrict codec
;disallow=all
;disallow=ulaw
;disallow=alaw
;allow=g729

It’s hard to believe that this would cause this error.

4

This error generally means that the Asterisk daemon has not started. You need to look at the logs to see what prevented its starting.

It could also indicate a crash in the absence of something like safe_asterisk to automatically restart it, in which case you need to make sure that crash dumps are enabled and debug it as a crash.

5

Please open a command prompt and type without quotations:
“cp /dev/null /var/log/asterisk/full”
“asterisk”

if it fails to load the pbx then run this:
“tail -n 20000 /var/log/asterisk/full > last20k”

then open the last20k file with vi or some other editor and locate any ERRORS and paste into the question.