[Freeswitch-users] FreeSwitch does not start in the background -- bypassed

[Eugene Shcherbatyuk]

For the sake of the rest of the list subscribers I would like to answer
in English. More elaborate description of the problem follows.

Installation went smooth. FS was configured to start as a daemon with
freeswitch user privelegies and started fine at OS boot.

Couple a days later I had downloaded some extra sound files and copied
them into sounds directory. And all of sudden FS did not start after
issuing '/etc/init.d/freeswitch restart' command. And it did not start
after clean OS reboot. And it did not start from console in background
mode (freeswitch -nc). And there was no output nor in system logs nor in
FS own log file.

Soon enough I have realised that copied files as root and ruined file
permissions. After restoring file permissions command
'/etc/init.d/freeswitch start' worked. But it worked only once:
subsequent attempts to [re]start failed. The situation was reproducible.

Finally I could get rid of the problem by setting FS directory ownership
to root and starting FS as root in init script.


On 13/02/12 14:59, Anton Kvashenkin wrote:
> А в чём именно проблема, опиши немножко поконкретней, пожалуйста. Давай
> сначала разберёмся с запуском FS просто из командной строки без всяких
> инит скриптов. Попробуй запустить freeswitch -nc, вывод запости на
> pasterbin.
>
> 13 февраля 2012 г. 10:22 пользователь Eugene Shcherbatyuk
> <shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by <mailto:shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by>> написал:
>
>     Thank you for your answer!
>     Well, I use the latest git and init script from debian directory in the
>     sources.
>
>     Obviously, the problem is not solved at its roots yet, but I managed to
>     bypass it by 'chowning' FS directory and setting user to 'root' in init
>     script.
>
>     On 10/02/12 20:38, Anton Kvashenkin wrote:
>      > The first suggestion would be to use latest git and init script from
>      > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Freeswitch_init.
>      >
>      > 10 февраля 2012 г. 15:53 пользователь Eugene Shcherbatyuk
>      > <shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by <mailto:shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by>
>     <mailto:shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by
>     <mailto:shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by>>> написал:
>      >
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > The purpose was to evaluate FreeSwitch and decide whether to
>     replace my
>      > Asterisks with it or not. I installed FS1.0.6 from git on Ubuntu
>     Server
>      > 10.04.3 LTS. Everything went smoothly until FS did not start with the
>      > system today.
>      >
>      > There are no errors in logs. FS starts in console fine. FS does not
>      > start in background mode nor from console (with -nc option) nor from
>      > init script. Even worse: FS can unexpectedly start (rarely) or do not
>      > start (often) with "backgrounding" message. Have a look at the
>     console
>      > output below, please.
>      >
>      > > root at fs:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin# /etc/init.d/freeswitch start
>      > > # ******* FS started without a message *********
>      > > root at fs:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin# netstat -ant
>      > > Active Internet connections (servers and established)
>      > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
>      > > tcp 0 0 172.18.0.130:5060 <http://172.18.0.130:5060>
>     <http://172.18.0.130:5060> 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>      > > tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8021 <http://127.0.0.1:8021>
>     <http://127.0.0.1:8021> 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>      > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 <http://0.0.0.0:22> <http://0.0.0.0:22>
>     0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>      > > tcp 0 0 172.18.0.130:5080 <http://172.18.0.130:5080>
>     <http://172.18.0.130:5080> 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>      > > tcp6 0 0 ::1:5060 :::* LISTEN
>      > > tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
>      > > root at fs:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin# /etc/init.d/freeswitch stop
>      > > Killing: 850
>      > > root at fs:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin# /etc/init.d/freeswitch start
>      > > root at fs:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin# 923 Backgrounding.
>      > > # ****** Note message above *********
>      > > root at fs:/usr/local/freeswitch/bin# netstat -ant
>      > > Active Internet connections (servers and established)
>      > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
>      > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 <http://0.0.0.0:22> <http://0.0.0.0:22>
>     0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>      > > tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
>      >
>      > Your opinions, please?
>      >
>      > Thank you in advance,
>      > Eugene
>      >
>


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