Thankyou so much for the reply Suresh :-) On 12/11/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > > chown: cannot access `/etc/asterisk': No such file or directory > > Dont know why but dpkg is not creating a /etc/asterisk directory if it > doesnt exist. >
It is a bug :-( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312942 > Create it and then run apt-get install asterisk again > yes it is working that way :-) Thankyou so much. kind regards Siju ---------Details # apt-get install asterisk Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main libasound2 libgsm1 libpq3 libpri1 libspeex1 libsqlite0 libtonezone1 odbcinst1 unixodbc Suggested packages: gnomemeeting ohphone kphone asterisk-doc asterisk-dev rate-engine mpg123 postgresql-doc postgresql-client speex libmyodbc odbc-postgresql libct1 The following NEW packages will be installed: asterisk asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main libasound2 libgsm1 libpq3 libpri1 libspeex1 libsqlite0 libtonezone1 odbcinst1 unixodbc 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded. Need to get 3538kB of archives. After unpacking 9372kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libsqlite0 2.8.16-1 [176kB] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libasound2 1.0.8-3 [312kB] Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libgsm1 1.0.10-13 [28.1kB] Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libpq3 7.4.7-6sarge1 [126kB] Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libpri1 1.0.7-1 [39.1kB] Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libspeex1 1.1.6-2 [66.7kB] Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main libtonezone1 1:1.0.7-4.1 [11.7kB] Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main odbcinst1 2.2.4-11 [59.7kB] Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main unixodbc 2.2.4-11 [304kB] Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main asterisk-sounds-main 1:1.0.7.dfsg.1-2 [1180kB] Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main asterisk-config 1:1.0.7.dfsg.1-2 [61.2kB] Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main asterisk 1:1.0.7.dfsg.1-2 [1175kB] Fetched 3538kB in 19m15s (3062B/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libsqlite0. (Reading database ... 25321 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libsqlite0 (from .../libsqlite0_2.8.16-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libasound2. Unpacking libasound2 (from .../libasound2_1.0.8-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgsm1. Unpacking libgsm1 (from .../libgsm1_1.0.10-13_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libpq3. Unpacking libpq3 (from .../libpq3_7.4.7-6sarge1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libpri1. Unpacking libpri1 (from .../libpri1_1.0.7-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libspeex1. Unpacking libspeex1 (from .../libspeex1_1.1.6-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libtonezone1. Unpacking libtonezone1 (from .../libtonezone1_1%3a1.0.7-4.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package odbcinst1. Unpacking odbcinst1 (from .../odbcinst1_2.2.4-11_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package unixodbc. Unpacking unixodbc (from .../unixodbc_2.2.4-11_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package asterisk-sounds-main. Unpacking asterisk-sounds-main (from .../asterisk-sounds-main_1%3a1.0.7.dfsg.1-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package asterisk-config. Unpacking asterisk-config (from .../asterisk-config_1%3a1.0.7.dfsg.1-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package asterisk. Unpacking asterisk (from .../asterisk_1%3a1.0.7.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up libsqlite0 (2.8.16-1) ... Setting up libasound2 (1.0.8-3) ... Setting up libgsm1 (1.0.10-13) ... Setting up libpq3 (7.4.7-6sarge1) ... Setting up libpri1 (1.0.7-1) ... Setting up libspeex1 (1.1.6-2) ... Setting up libtonezone1 (1.0.7-4.1) ... Setting up odbcinst1 (2.2.4-11) ... Setting up unixodbc (2.2.4-11) ... Setting up asterisk-sounds-main (1.0.7.dfsg.1-2) ... Setting up asterisk-config (1.0.7.dfsg.1-2) ... Setting up asterisk (1.0.7.dfsg.1-2) ... adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. Adding system user `asterisk'... Adding new group `asterisk' (109). Adding new user `asterisk' (109) with group `asterisk'. Home directory `/var/lib/asterisk' already exists. Adding user `asterisk' to group `audio'... Done. Asterisk not yet configured. Edit /etc/default/asterisk first. invoke-rc.d: initscript asterisk, action "start" failed. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help