asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Asterisk@home silly problem, please help!

Hi all!

After much struggling I got my *@home working fine AND making use of two
AVMFritz!PCI cards. Really nice !  (kernel 2.4.2x)

There's however a silly glitch that's getting on my nerves, and, kind of
a
newbie that I am to linux, it should be easy to get help :

-- "capiinit start" MUST BE run before Asterisk. (any other way makes
* not
to start because chan_capi doesn't find CAPI support)

You must find this an easy thing, as I did. So I entered /etc/rc.d/ and
inserted "capiinit start" to start as early as possible. Also added
some
lines of junk text so to see them going by as the system boots...

What's making me desperate is that the lines go by, capiinit is, in fact,
runned, and Asterisk still fails in the end.
I login and type my very first command "asterisk -vvvc" and it then
starts
with no trouble.

Is this strange or what ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

M.G.

Maybe a long shot but if you run asterisk as non root user have you checked
the permissions on /dev/capi20 ?  I have an eicon 4BRI card and every time I
reconfigure the card with divas_cfg I do a chown --recursive
asterisk:asterisk /dev/capi2*

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Junk Mail" <junkmail@segurajuda.dyndns.org>
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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:12 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk@home silly problem, please help!

> Hi all!
>
> After much struggling I got my *@home working fine AND making use of two
> AVMFritz!PCI cards. Really nice !  (kernel 2.4.2x)
>
> There's however a silly glitch that's getting on my nerves, and,
kind of a
> newbie that I am to linux, it should be easy to get help :
>
> -- "capiinit start" MUST BE run before Asterisk. (any other way
makes *
not
> to start because chan_capi doesn't find CAPI support)
>
> You must find this an easy thing, as I did. So I entered /etc/rc.d/ and
> inserted "capiinit start" to start as early as possible. Also
added some
> lines of junk text so to see them going by as the system boots...
>
> What's making me desperate is that the lines go by, capiinit is, in
fact,
> runned, and Asterisk still fails in the end.
> I login and type my very first command "asterisk -vvvc" and it
then starts
> with no trouble.
>
> Is this strange or what ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> M.G.
>
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On Wednesday 09 March 2005 23:12, Junk Mail wrote:
> What's making me desperate is that the lines go by, capiinit is, in
fact,
> runned, and Asterisk still fails in the end.
> I login and type my very first command "asterisk -vvvc" and it
then starts
> with no trouble.
>
> Is this strange or what ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
I'm willing to bet that the modules haven't actually loaded when
asterisk
tries to start. I'm pretty sure I had the same problem on my box.
You need to slow down the boot (I know sounds weird everyone nowadays wants 
their machines to boot asap), instead of inserting text grabage, find where 
the modules are loaded and insert a couple of seconds of sleep after the 
modules are loaded - I'm away from my box atm and can't for the life of
me
actually remember the syntax. Run a quick google for 'bash sleep'.

HTH
Jon
Jon

Solved!
The problem was that "capiinit start" can only be done by user
"root" and
asterisk is started as user "asterisk".
Once I edited sudo ("visudo") and gave permission, the problem was
solved.

Regards

M.G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Junk Mail" <junkmail@segurajuda.dyndns.org>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:12 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk@home silly problem, please help!

> Hi all!
>
> After much struggling I got my *@home working fine AND making use of two
> AVMFritz!PCI cards. Really nice !  (kernel 2.4.2x)
>
> There's however a silly glitch that's getting on my nerves, and,
kind of a
> newbie that I am to linux, it should be easy to get help :
>
> -- "capiinit start" MUST BE run before Asterisk. (any other way
makes *
not
> to start because chan_capi doesn't find CAPI support)
>
> You must find this an easy thing, as I did. So I entered /etc/rc.d/ and
> inserted "capiinit start" to start as early as possible. Also
added some
> lines of junk text so to see them going by as the system boots...
>
> What's making me desperate is that the lines go by, capiinit is, in
fact,
> runned, and Asterisk still fails in the end.
> I login and type my very first command "asterisk -vvvc" and it
then starts
> with no trouble.
>
> Is this strange or what ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> M.G.
>
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