Re: [SR-Users] kamailio fails to start with kamctl start

I fixed the problem but I would like somebody to shed some light into this issue. I noticed that when I run kamailio w/o telling where to load the kamailio.cfg file is when it failed. So I went to the kamctl script and notice that in the section where "kamctl start" happens the variable $STARTOPTIONS was empty. I went to the etc/kamailio/kamctlrc, un-commented the line with $STARTOPTIONS and made it like this: STARTOPTIONS=" -f /usr/local/kamailio-3.1/etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg" -> this points to the config file which is in a custom path So, it seems that when one installs kamailio in a directory other than the default path with the prefix option ['make prefix="new path here" all' and 'make prefix="new path here" install'] you have to explicitly tell it somehow to load the config file from somewhere else. Or I did not do it correctly. Can somebody please confirm?. I thought that the initialization scripts would also take care of that. I have installed kamailio 1.4.3 1.5.0, 1.5.2 using the prefix option at 'make' time several times and never had this issue. Again, these were my main steps: mkdir -p /usr/local/src/kamailio-3.1.0 cd /usr/local/src/kamailio-3.1.0 git clone --depth 1 git://git.sip-router.org/sip-router kamailio cd kamailio git checkout -b 3.1 origin/3.1 mkdir /usr/local/kamailio-3.1 make FLAVOUR=kamailio cfg vi modules.lst to exclude db_mysql db_odbc from modules.lst make PREFIX="/usr/local/kamailio-3.1/" all make PREFIX="/usr/local/kamailio-3.1/" install then I executed /usr/local/kamailio-3.1/sbin/kamdbctl create to create the DB and tables. From: fborot(a)hotmail.com To: sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:10:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [SR-Users] kamailio fails to start with kamctl start I enabled debugging on the kamctl script and see these lines right before it fails: + minfo 'Starting Kamailio : ' + '[' -t 1 -a -z '' ']' + echo -e '\E[37;33m\033[1mINFO: Starting Kamailio : \033[0m' INFO: Starting Kamailio : + '[' -r /var/run/kamailio.pid ']' + '[' '!' -x ./kamailio ']' + '[' 1 = 1 ']' + ./kamailio -P /var/run/kamailio.pid + sleep 3 + '[' '!' -s /var/run/kamailio.pid ']' + echo + merr 'PID file /var/run/kamailio.pid does not exist -- Kamailio start failed' + '[' -t 1 -a -z '' ']' + echo -e '\E[37;31m\033[1mERROR: PID file /var/run/kamailio.pid does not exist -- Kamailio start failed\033[0m' ERROR: PID file /var/run/kamailio.pid does not exist -- Kamailio start failed + exit 1 [root@registrar sbin]# these are the main steps I followed to install it: mkdir -p /usr/local/src/kamailio-3.1.0 cd /usr/local/src/kamailio-3.1.0 git clone --depth 1 git://git.sip-router.org/sip-router kamailio cd kamailio git checkout -b 3.1 origin/3.1 mkdir /usr/local/kamailio-3.1 make FLAVOUR=kamailio cfg vi modules.lst to exclude db_mysql db_odbc from modules.lst make PREFIX="/usr/local/kamailio-3.1/" all make PREFIX="/usr/local/kamailio-3.1/" install then I executed /usr/local/kamailio-3.1/sbin/kamdbctl create to create the DB and tables. From: fborot(a)hotmail.com To: sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:28:28 -0400 Subject: [SR-Users] kamailio fails to start with kamctl start Hello I just installed kamailio-3.1 and using the default config file "kamctl start" fails [root@registrar sbin]# ./kamctl start INFO: Starting Kamailio : ERROR: PID file /var/run/kamailio.pid does not exist -- Kamailio start failed [root@registrar sbin]# but when I use this command it starts: <kamailio -f path_to_config_file [root@registrar sbin]# ./kamailio -f /usr/local/kamailio-3.1/etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg loading modules under /usr/local/kamailio-3.1//lib64/kamailio/modules_k/:/usr/local/kamailio-3.1//lib64/kamailio/modules/ Listening on udp: 127.0.0.1:5060 udp: 192.168.168.10:5060 tcp: 127.0.0.1:5060 tcp: 192.168.168.10:5060 Aliases: tcp: localhost:5060 tcp: localhost.localdomain:5060 tcp: registrar:5060 tcp: registrar.mytestdomain.com:5060 udp: localhost:5060 udp: localhost.localdomain:5060 udp: registrar:5060 udp: registrar.mytestdomain.com:5060 [root@registrar sbin]# Also, when I use "./kamctl start" the syslog file does not show anything at all that would help me why it is failing. But when I use "/usr/local/kamailio-3.1/sbin/kamailio -f /usr/local/kamailio-3.1/etc/kamailio/kamailio.cfg" it does update the syslog file. Also, after kamailio start with "./kamailio -f .." I can use ./kamctl fifo <any option>. Example: [root@registrar sbin]# ./kamctl fifo version Server:: kamailio (3.1.4 (x86_64/linux)) Build:: mi_core.c compiled on 15:09:40 Jun 24 2011 with gcc 4.1.2 Flags:: STATS: Off, USE_IPV6, USE_TCP, USE_TLS, TLS_HOOKS, USE_RAW_SOCKS, DISABLE_NAGLE, USE_MCAST, DNS_IP_HACK, SHM_MEM, SHM_MMAP, PKG_MALLOC, DBG_QM_MALLOC, USE_FUTEX, FAST_LOCK-ADAPTIVE_WAIT, USE_DNS_CACHE, USE_DNS_FAILOVER, USE_NAPTR, USE_DST_BLACKLIST, HAVE_RESOLV_RES GIT:: e2d6f0 [root@registrar sbin]# [root@registrar sbin]# ./kamctl fifo ps Process:: ID=0 PID=27078 Type=attendant Process:: ID=1 PID=27079 Type=udp receiver child=0 sock=127.0.0.1:5060 Process:: ID=2 PID=27080 Type=udp receiver child=1 sock=127.0.0.1:5060 Process:: ID=3 PID=27081 Type=udp receiver child=2 sock=127.0.0.1:5060 Process:: ID=4 PID=27082 Type=udp receiver child=3 sock=127.0.0.1:5060 Process:: ID=5 PID=27083 Type=udp receiver child=0 sock=192.168.168.10:5060 Process:: ID=6 PID=27084 Type=udp receiver child=1 sock=192.168.168.10:5060 Process:: ID=7 PID=27085 Type=udp receiver child=2 sock=192.168.168.10:5060 Process:: ID=8 PID=27086 Type=udp receiver child=3 sock=192.168.168.10:5060 Process:: ID=9 PID=27087 Type=slow timer Process:: ID=10 PID=27088 Type=timer Process:: ID=11 PID=27089 Type=MI FIFO Process:: ID=12 PID=27090 Type=ctl handler Process:: ID=13 PID=27091 Type=tcp receiver child=0 Process:: ID=14 PID=27092 Type=tcp receiver child=1 Process:: ID=15 PID=27093 Type=tcp receiver child=2 Process:: ID=16 PID=27094 Type=tcp receiver child=3 Process:: ID=17 PID=27095 Type=tcp main process [root@registrar sbin]# _______________________________________________ SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users _______________________________________________ SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users