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

[Anton Kvashenkin]

chown -R freeswitch:daemon /usr/local/freeswitch/
chmod -R o-rwx /usr/local/freeswitch/

And do not forget to change init script for user running FreeSWITCH.

13 февраля 2012 г. 17:10 пользователь Eugene Shcherbatyuk <
shcherbatyuk at belrosbank.by> написал:

> 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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