I am looking at a system from a customer having an old version of Freeswitch. For some reason, freeswitch doesn't seem to start - logs are something like:

[ERR] switch_xml.c:1467 Short write!

[ERR] switch_xml.c:1467 Short write!

[ERR] switch_xml.c:1467 Short write!

[ERR] switch_xml.c:1467 Short write!

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Cannot Initialize [[error near line 1]: root tag missing!

log/freeswitch.xml.fsxml is empty, and customer is not using xml_curl.

I ran xmllint, but couldn't really find any obvious problems. freeswitch.xml and vars.xml seem fine.. anything else that I could check? May be some xml is missing, but I am not sure which one!