After a power failure my asterisk quit working. See the attached. I ran systemctl status asterisk

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:23 PM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

journalctl -u asterisk.service --since today

 

This is what it does every ten minutes it seams. I have no idea what this means.

-- Logs begin at Mon 2019-03-25 09:17:01 CDT, end at Tue 2019-03-26 20:04:48 CDT. --
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: Stopped Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: Started Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 26 17:46:39 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: Stopped Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: Started Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 26 17:46:49 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: Stopped Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: Started Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 26 17:46:59 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: Stopped Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: Started Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 26 17:47:10 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 26 17:47:20 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 26 17:47:20 repeater systemd[1]: Stopped Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:47:20 repeater systemd[1]: Started Asterisk PBX and telephony daemon.
Mar 26 17:47:20 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 26 17:47:20 repeater systemd[1]: asterisk.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

OK this might help. It say it can't write the log files because it is a read only system. After a Google search I found how to remount. I still get the error when I status asterisk. I reran

journalctl -u asterisk.service --since today and got the log I have attached. When I try running asterisk -vcd I get an error stating again that the log file can't be written because it is a read only system.

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:34 AM Steve N4IRS <szingman@...> wrote:

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

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Is this a Raspberry Pi? Maybe the SD card is going bad, corrupting the filesystem and forcing it to be read-only. You can force a fsck by running

fsck.ext4 -cDfty -C 0 /dev/sd**

You can also run dmesg which may give a clue into why the filesystem is read only.

It sounds like asterisk won't start because it can't write its log file, which may be the underlying issue here.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:49 AM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

OK this might help. It say it can't write the log files because it is a read only system. After a Google search I found how to remount. I still get the error when I status asterisk. I reran

journalctl -u asterisk.service --since today and got the log I have attached. When I try running asterisk -vcd I get an error stating again that the log file can't be written because it is a read only system.

Virus-free. www.avg.com

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:34 AM Steve N4IRS <szingman@...> wrote:

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

Virus-free. www.avg.com

--

Steve Miller

KC1AWV

Yes it is a Raspberry Pi. I ran that and it returned this.

fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sd**
Possibly non-existent device?

I think I will go out today and buy a new SDCard. It won't take log to reconfigure it. I have all the necessary files backed up. Thanks to your help in the past I can get it up and going pretty quick. Now that I have said that I will be on here after work asking more questions.

I am wondering if any of you know how I can make WinSCP allow me to write to my files. I found a command sudo su -c /bin/sftp-server I put in the SFTP Protocols and it worked for a while but now tells me Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running an SFTP server? when I try to use it.

Thanks

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:01 AM Steve KC1AWV <smiller@...> wrote:

Is this a Raspberry Pi? Maybe the SD card is going bad, corrupting the filesystem and forcing it to be read-only. You can force a fsck by running

fsck.ext4 -cDfty -C 0 /dev/sd**

You can also run dmesg which may give a clue into why the filesystem is read only.

It sounds like asterisk won't start because it can't write its log file, which may be the underlying issue here.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:49 AM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

OK this might help. It say it can't write the log files because it is a read only system. After a Google search I found how to remount. I still get the error when I status asterisk. I reran

journalctl -u asterisk.service --since today and got the log I have attached. When I try running asterisk -vcd I get an error stating again that the log file can't be written because it is a read only system.

Virus-free. www.avg.com

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:34 AM Steve N4IRS <szingman@...> wrote:

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

Virus-free. www.avg.com

--

Steve Miller

KC1AWV

SFTP is an FTP protocol that uses encryption over the wire. So, yes you'll need to have an FTP server running to use FTP. However, WinSCP also can use SCP which only needs an ssh server running, which it sounds like you already do, in order to log into the Pi. Instead of using SFTP, log into the Pi with WinSCP, make sure the protocol is set to SCP, and use the standard SSH port, 22. Then, you should be able to browse the remote machine and drag 'n drop the files over to your local computer.

The other option is to just do a direct copy/paste from a terminal like putty, just cat the file to the terminal and copy/paste to notepad or the like. That's how I usually do a quick copy of a log or a conf file.

root@allstar:/home/smiller# cat /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf

will print the rpt configuration file out to the terminal, and I just copy/paste it to notepad. If the file has a lot of lines in it, you may exceed the terminal buffer and cut off a chunk of the file, so copying it using SCP may be easier at that point.

Screenshot of the WinSCP login window attached.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 8:23 AM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

Yes it is a Raspberry Pi. I ran that and it returned this.

fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sd**
Possibly non-existent device?

I think I will go out today and buy a new SDCard. It won't take log to reconfigure it. I have all the necessary files backed up. Thanks to your help in the past I can get it up and going pretty quick. Now that I have said that I will be on here after work asking more questions.

I am wondering if any of you know how I can make WinSCP allow me to write to my files. I found a command sudo su -c /bin/sftp-server I put in the SFTP Protocols and it worked for a while but now tells me Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running an SFTP server? when I try to use it.

Thanks

Virus-free. www.avg.com

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:01 AM Steve KC1AWV <smiller@...> wrote:

Is this a Raspberry Pi? Maybe the SD card is going bad, corrupting the filesystem and forcing it to be read-only. You can force a fsck by running

fsck.ext4 -cDfty -C 0 /dev/sd**

You can also run dmesg which may give a clue into why the filesystem is read only.

It sounds like asterisk won't start because it can't write its log file, which may be the underlying issue here.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:49 AM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

OK this might help. It say it can't write the log files because it is a read only system. After a Google search I found how to remount. I still get the error when I status asterisk. I reran

journalctl -u asterisk.service --since today and got the log I have attached. When I try running asterisk -vcd I get an error stating again that the log file can't be written because it is a read only system.

Virus-free. www.avg.com

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:34 AM Steve N4IRS <szingman@...> wrote:

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

Virus-free. www.avg.com

--

Steve Miller

KC1AWV

--

Steve Miller

KC1AWV

Just a thought,

When you sat up this pi, did you expand the file system after installing the OS?

What does df show for disk usage?

I am thinking that you may be out of disk space, but only a theory at this time.

Mark

On 3/26/19 10:29 PM, K4VL wrote:

BTW I'm getting the same error when I look at the status of mmdvm_bridge. analog_bridge is running.

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

Thanks again for everybody's help. I bought a new SD card and got it reconfigured and working again.

73 de K4VL

Virus-free. www.avg.com

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:34 AM Steve N4IRS <szingman@...> wrote:

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

Glad to hear it! I would suggest to take an image of the known good card and back it up safely somewhere so you can slap it on a new card if this comes up again. But that might just be the paranoia here talking. :)

Steve KC1AWV

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:13 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

Thanks again for everybody's help. I bought a new SD card and got it reconfigured and working again.

73 de K4VL

Virus-free. www.avg.com

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:34 AM Steve N4IRS <szingman@...> wrote:

I would at least run asterisk in the foreground with:
asterisk -vcd

On 3/27/19 5:33 AM, Steve KC1AWV wrote:

If the logs are empty, then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose the problem. Log files are the single most important thing on a computer, and without them, you're flying blind.

At this point, I'd say back up the configuration files and put them somewhere for reference and start over.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 10:25 PM K4VL <73dek4vl@...> wrote:

The logs appear empty. I event went into the asterisk log folder and opened the event log and it was blank.

--

Steve Miller

KC1AWV