Thank you Jason

After following your steps, Asterisk starts up each time even after the reset.

I will look into creating an SELinux policy exception for Asterisk.

Have a great day!

Dan

From: [email protected] 
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Support
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:52 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Having problem getting Asterisk to work on CentOS 
7

Dan - you probably installed the init script (look in /etc/init.d for an 
'asterisk' file).  Asterisk includes the older init style scripts which are 
*compatible* with systemd but you don't have as much control compared to 
creating an Asterisk systemd file.  (SystemD service files replace InitD 
scripts).  So that might be part of the solution, but first...

If disabling Selinux allows Asterisk to run as you expect then you can create 
an selinux policy exception for Asterisk - BUT, ignore that for now.  Just keep 
SElinux disabled (edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and set to disabled) and come 
back to that later.

So in preparation to diagnose further:

1.      Disable asterisk service (systemctl disable asterisk)

2.      Disable selinux (as described above)

3.      Reboot.

Next, try to start asterisk with 'systemctl start asterisk'.  Does it work as 
expected?  If no, what user have you logged in with?
If not root, su to root and try again.  Did it asterisk service start properly?
If yes, you should create a systemd service file and use the 'user=root' 
parameter (and remove the initd service script).
Does Asterisk start properly now every time?  If yes re-enable to your systemd 
Asterisk service to start with the system.

I don't see any attachment (probably stripped by the list manager) but that 
shouldn't matter - if your Asterisk service is not running as root that would 
explain a range of strange behaviours.

*Jason*


From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Cropp
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:41 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Having problem getting Asterisk to work on CentOS 
7

Thanks Jason.

I will try to explain what I'm seeing for this issue.

I did a fresh install of CentOS 7 Minimal into a VM with VMWare Workstation.  
Followed the Asterisk from Source instructions using pjproject 2.6 and asterisk 
13.14.0 for the configure, install, ...   At the end of the asterisk portion, I 
ran the make config which I understand installs the Initialization scripts.

After this, when I restart my CentOS 7 Minimal, I was seeing the safe_asterisk 
process, but asterisk would not start.  I could run it from the command line 
and it would run.

It was suggested that it's an selinux problem.  They had me try 'setenforce 0'. 
 After this, asterisk process starts running.
As I understand it, there was mention of using systemd instead of using 
safe_asterisk.
Other e-mails indicated I should look at the audit.log, so I included that 
information.  This audit.log mentioned astdb.sqlite3, so I wasn't sure if 
that's the problem.

I also just tried a restart and ran 'systemctl start asterisk'.  This did not 
start the asterisk process.

Through the various recommendations, I've become confused on what the correct 
path would be.  I have had zero problems with Debian and Asterisk for many 
years.  Making the change to CentOS.  Followed the instructions from 
asterisk.org, but for some reason I hit a problem with this on my CentOS VM.
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Asterisk+From+Source

Simply looking for guidance on what the correct approach to solve this problem 
is.

Have a great day!

Dan


From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Telium Technical 
Support
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:08 AM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Having problem getting Asterisk to work on CentOS 
7

The history of the question is lost (in the mail thread) so I'll jump in based 
on what I could see in my recent mail and the subject line:

-        The ASTDB should have no impact on Asterisk service start (which I 
assume is the problem given the subject line)

-        If you disabled SElinux then that's not the problem in starting 
asterisk

>From another posting it appears that you can start Asterisk from the binary, 
>and from safe_asterisk.  If that's correct, then are you able to start/stop 
>Asterisk from the service file?  With CentOS7 that would be:

systemctl start asterisk

Is your asterisk service file present?  (You can create one easily based on 
samples on the internet).  If you have an asterisk service file but startup 
fails post the relevant portion of your syslog (journalctl).

If your question has changed (you mentioned 'the first problem') then ignore 
the above; jumping in late.





*Jason*
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