[Freeswitch-users] Trouble autostarting freeswitch on boot

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I am trying to work out how to get freeswitch to be automatically be 
started when I boot the system.

First of all I tried using ArchLinux to run freeswitch as that is the 
distribution of Linux I am most familiar with. I compiled freeswitch 
using the AUR package 
(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freeswitch-git/). If I just run 
freeswitch from the command line it runs fine. As ArchLinux uses systemd 
for start up, I tried the systemd service file linked to in the AUR 
package and also tried modifying the one included from the debian 
directory (modifying paths as appropriate). Neither worked, the AUR 
package I think gave exit codes of 214 and the freeswitch debian one I 
cannot remember (although its probably the same as I am getting with 
debian).

I decided as the Debian one was written for Debian, and may be there 
might be something Debian specific in that service file I would try on a 
Debian system. Still no luck, the service just fails to start, although 
running freeswitch from the command line works fine. On Debian I first 
got an error from the mkdir command (looked like it was to do with the 
directory not existing, probably caused by the WorkingDirectory line 
referring to the directory the mkdir command creates) so I decided to 
create /run/freeswitch manually and then try again to start the 
freeswitch service, but it still fails, this time at the launching of 
freeswitch which gets the SEGV signal.

Also on debian I tried the sysvinit script from the debian folder of the 
freeswitch distribution, and while I get a message appearing saying 
backgrounding the process, freeswitch fails to continue to run.

Ideally I want it so that I can control the freeswitch process, so using 
systemd seems a reasonable choice, but I will consider other options 
which meet that ability to control/monitor the process.

A search on the internet does not seem to be yielding any answers to 
this problem. How can I get this running?

I might consider another distribution, but it must be one which will run 
on the raspberrypi as that will be where it will be run in the end. I 
did try the ArchLinux stuff on both an X86_64 system as well as the 
raspberrypi, Debian, I mainly tried on the RaspberryPi using the 
raspbian distribution.

Any help would be welcome as I have reached the point that I cannot 
think of anything else to try other than another system than FreeSwitch.

Michael Whapples