asterisk Unable to connect to remote asterisk does var run asterisk ctl exist

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I am learning asterisk   After I installed asterisk  I tried to connect with it using   asterisk -rvvvvc    But it gave me the following error message      Unable to connect to remote asterisk  does  var run asterisk ctl exist     How can I solve this issue

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It s showing asterisk server is not running   You may type following commands at cli    asterisk asterisk -rvvvv   above commands worked for me   first command starts asterisk  second command gets you to asterisk cli

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I have just installed asterisk 13 18 5 on CentOS7  After logging in as root  I was having the same problem and I just did  SELINUX disabled  in  var selinux config and that was all  My asterisk started in verbose mode by doing asterisk -rvvvvvv  No errors       Another way to get it done is to use  asterisk - amp   command first and then wait for a while for an  OK  message from asterisk and then  asterisk -rvvvvv

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just go to installation folder  cd  usr src asterisk asterisk -r reload

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First check if the file    var run asterisk asterisk ctl  exists if it doesn t  then the asterisk server is not running  So start it like    usr sbin asterisk -gvvc  and then asterisk -r to drop to the command line prompt worked for me

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I had this problem today  It had nothing to do with any of the posted answers  I tried them all  My problem was a misconfiguration with the zaptel conf  running old asterisk    I had commented out some span details trying to troubleshoot a PRI issue  When the server got rebooted this issue presented itself  I was able to discover this by looking at the wanrouter messages in the logs  I noticed there were 3 errors  and the corresponding line numbers  once I corrected these issues  and ran an  asterisk -vvvvc the server came back up and everything worked

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There is another solution if above didn t help  add   noload   gt  res pjsip so to  etc asterisk modules conf

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You must be root   sudo su - asterisk -r

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I had a similar issue  which was a result of the hard drive being filled up   Turns out the issue was with the cdr table being corrupted and running repair in mysql remedied the issue

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If you have SELINUX enabled  it will prevent this file being created  You need to turn it off    vi  etc selinux config set SELINUX disabled reboot

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Only you need to empty  tmp directory using command  amp  hit reboot your system  now you are able to play on asterisk CLI whatever you want

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I solved this problem by using   chown -R  etc asterisk chown -R  var lib asterisk  this is bacause  as said here  I wasn t running as administrator  So  I made my user as owner of the Asterisk directories

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If other solutions doesn t work for you  just try  as root  this   amportal restart   Hope it helps  -

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There are two common reasons why this occurs    Asterisk is not running  You are trying to run asterisk -r as a non-root user    If Asterisk isn t running  try to start it  asterisk -vvvc  If you are logged in as a non-root user  then log in as the root user  or just  sudo asterisk -r

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This is common problem for asterisk and this works for me   sudo su  etc init d asterisk start  asterisk -rvvv   If not working stop it  sudo su  etc init d asterisk stop   Start it again  sudo su  etc init d asterisk start  asterisk -rvvv   That is all

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You have to make a change in the asterisk conf file located at  etc asterisk  astrundir   gt   var run asterisk   Reboot your system and check  Hope this helps you

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This command should work if the others did not solve the problem      sudo asterisk - amp

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It may not be running    try runnign  etc init d asterisk status  If its not running  Start it using    etc init d asterisk start   Or in  RH 7   Systemctl start asterisk

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actually it s an ownership problem  try to   ls -l  var run asterisk asterisk ctl   you will see that the file has ownership of  root   although you have changed the ownership with   chown -R asterisk  var run asterisk   once you restart the asterisk server the ownership gets back to the  root  again  they should be for  asterisk asterisk  user and group  Basem Hegazy

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In the source contrib directory are example scripts for init d - it is simplest to run the server in background mode - the init scripts also contain a monitor to relaunch asterisk if it goes down   Then you just need to use   sudo asterisk -vvvvvvvr     to connect to the server that is already running in background mode    Note you need to run this as root to gain privileges to connect   If you installed via a distro - then the init d scripts are usually supplied as standard

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Try to use sudo  to run asterisk -r that works for me every time this error comes up

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It s probably because asterisk is not running on your server   Try to run it with this command    asterisk -vvvvvvc   You ll enter into the Asterisk CLI and if something goes wrong you ll see it  After that you can quit the CLI by entering the exit command  Then you can reconnect to the CLI by typing asterisk -r  All this commands assumed you re the root user  If you are not root prefix them by sudo  by example sudo asterisk -vvvvvvc   Hope it helps  regards  Duc

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