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Summary:ASTERISK-12843: OpenBSD 4.2 launch failures
Reporter:John Todd (jtodd)Labels:
Date Opened:2008-10-07 12:37:12Date Closed:2008-10-07 13:43:16
Priority:MinorRegression?No
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Core/Portability
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Description:Launch fails to proceed past dynamic loader on OpenBSD 4.2 i386 systems with this behavior:

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 == Manager registered action DBDelTree
Asterisk Dynamic Loader Starting:
Asterisk Ready.

*CLI> core show version
Asterisk SVN-trunk-r147194 built by root @ core1.pdx1.network.fox-den.com on a i386 running OpenBSD on 2008-10-07 07:13:03 UTC


No channels are loaded, no functions, etc.


****** ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ******

I "make uninstall"ed previous versions of Asterisk.  
Comments:By: Leif Madsen (lmadsen) 2008-10-07 12:39:40

This is with latest trunk, but did it used to work on older versions? Or is this a new version of the OpenBSD this doesn't work on? (Sorry, I'm not familiar with OpenBSD.)
By: John Todd (jtodd) 2008-10-07 12:48:51

I'm trying with Asterisk trunk as of a few hours ago.  Older versions of Asterisk worked OK (not sure where the malfunction was inserted - sometime in the last month, since version 141039 worked) even though they had some hiccups.

I'm trying with OpenBSD 4.2, which isn't that old (two revisions old) though I suppose is now a year or more old... but a year shouldn't be considered "out of date".
By: Michiel van Baak (mvanbaak) 2008-10-07 12:56:16

November 1st OpenBSD 4.2 will go EOL because OpenBSD 4.4 will be released.

I'm running trunk on OpenBSD 4.3 and there I dont see this problem.

If you want you can send me your configs in private so I can test that on my local system
By: Michiel van Baak (mvanbaak) 2008-10-07 12:58:22

wait .... I found it.

try this:
sudo mv /etc/asterisk /usr/local/etc/asterisk
sudo -u _asterisk asterisk -vvvvvgcd
By: Michiel van Baak (mvanbaak) 2008-10-07 13:13:44

jtodd: we are going to go back to the original locations.
Thanks for your feedback.
By: John Todd (jtodd) 2008-10-07 13:26:02

OK, instead of calling out the etc/asterisk directly on the command line, I just symlinked back to my /etc/asterisk directory, and that works.

This leads me to one of a few possible solution sets, since I suspect many people will run into this same problem:

1) Create a symlink (probably not the best idea, but it could work) if /etc/asterisk exists

2) Cascade through ${BASE}/etc/asterisk and then look in /etc/asterisk if the default location isn't populated with valid files

3) Print a big ERROR message if etc/asterisk is empty, because right now there is NO error message if that directory doesn't exist (which would have saved me a lot of time working on this problem)
By: Michiel van Baak (mvanbaak) 2008-10-07 13:26:42

maybe not.
Stay tuned, I'm fixing this one now.
By: Digium Subversion (svnbot) 2008-10-07 13:43:15

Repository: asterisk
Revision: 147306

U   trunk/configure
U   trunk/configure.ac

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r147306 | mvanbaak | 2008-10-07 13:43:14 -0500 (Tue, 07 Oct 2008) | 5 lines

Make sure the configs on OpenBSD are in /etc/asterisk by default

(closes issue ASTERISK-12843)
Reported by: jtodd

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http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=147306