asterisk users - Jun 2003 - Re: Application, Dialplan not loading

strace does show that that modules.conf loads:
> open("/etc/asterisk/modules.conf", O_RDONLY) = 8
And that I do get some of the channels loading, e.g., the modem channel:
> open("/usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_modem.so", O_RDONLY) =
8
And if I load the apps via "load app_playback.so",
> open("/usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules/app_playback.so", O_RDONLY)
= 25
so it's not as if though load can't find the apps in the directory. 
Autoload doesn't load them.

Other notes:

* I have only sound cards, no hardware. Since as far as I can tell -- 
documentation doesn't seem to cover this issue --  I must have some 
interface running in order to load a context, I've done the following on 
my machine, which uses ALSA for sound. I've proceeded in stages trying 
various combinations:


+ alsa.conf:

context=default

+ oss.conf:

context=default

+ sip.conf:

context=demo

+ extentions.conf:

[default]
include => demo

I've tried other permutations, including simplified dial plans, pointing 
  sip.conf directly at the default context, etc.

Regardless, "dial 500" doesn't work from the console, and neither
does
"dial 500@demo".

"show dialplan" shows only the "parkedcalls" dialplan from
parking.conf.

* This is a *change* in behaviour. I *was* able to get this to work 
previously. The only major change in my system is that I'm using alsa 
0.9.4 that I compiled myself -- but that version of alsa works better 
than previous versions.

* The pre-compiled .deb's from the official Debian have the same 
problem. (This problem started after I recompiled the CVS to help 
resolve the problem with the official Debian. Silly me...)

* I attach to this email a text file, listing.cvs, with some output that 
shows the current state of the system.

(NOTE: I modified the makefile every so slightly to place asterisk 
entirely in the /usr/local/[s]bin & /var/local directories, especially 
as I implemented "uninstall" and didn't want a development error
wiping
out the /usr/[s]bin  directories. However, the problem I've described 
occurs even if I load everything into non-local/ directories, so it's 
not vestigal hardcode as far as I can tell.)

I would appreciate any thought you have on this matter.

-- 
  Moshe Yudkowsky * http://www.Disaggregate.com

> And that I do get some of the channels loading, e.g., the modem channel:
>
> > open("/usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_modem.so",
O_RDONLY) = 8
>
> And if I load the apps via "load app_playback.so",
>
> > open("/usr/local/lib/asterisk/modules/app_playback.so",
O_RDONLY) = 25
It would seem that the most likely thing is that something about the
autoloader doesn't agree with having your modules in a different directory
than the default /usr/lib/asterisk/modules.  I must have missed where you
mentioned changing the install directory in your original message, sorry.

I'll try to check but if you get it before me just send me a patch, it's
gotta be something silly.
> * I have only sound cards, no hardware. Since as far as I can tell --
> documentation doesn't seem to cover this issue --  I must have some
> interface running in order to load a context, I've done the following
on
> my machine, which uses ALSA for sound. I've proceeded in stages trying
> various combinations:
No, you don't need any kind of interface at all.

Mark