[SR-Users] Problem Starting kamailio on Debian Squeeze [solved]

[JR Richardson]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:34 PM, JR Richardson <jmr.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:13 PM, JR Richardson <jmr.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm running redundant kamailio 3.0.4 servers in production, have been
>> for a long time with great success. They were installed on debian
>> Lenny.  One of my servers crashed.  I can't seem to do a debian lennyy
>> install because that version is archived now.  I'm trying to install
>> on debian squeeze but still using kamailio 3.0.4 for compatibility
>> reasons.  The install went pretty normal except during boot up,
>> kamailio starts before mysql and networking so it starts then exists.
>>
>> Once the server is fully booted, kamailio starts with the init script
>> without error.
>>
>> I have adjusted the init script to check for networking and mysql to
>> start first and performed an 'update-rc.d kamailio defaults' but still
>> no luck.
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> JR
>> --
>> JR Richardson
>> Engineering for the Masses
>
> Yep, this is an
> http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot issue.
> Thanks Alex.
>
> The old init scrip that ships with Kamailio 3.0.4 that I am using is
> not 100% compatible so I pulled a hack out of the hat and inserted
> 'sleep 20' before of 'check_fork ()' in the kamailio init script.
>
> Kamailio now waits long enough for all services to start before
> launching, simple but effective.
>

After digging in a bit more, reading the directions and such.  When
you copy over the init script and run 'update-rd.d kamailio defaults',
this doesn't actually do anything in Debian Squeeze.  The new LSB init
scripts use the 'insserv' command to set init priorities.  Proper
steps are such:
Copy over squeeze init script to /etc/ini.d/kamailio
Edit /etc/init.d/kamailio
Add 'mysql' to 'Required-Start:' line
----snip-----
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          kamailio
# Required-Start:    $syslog $network $local_fs $time mysql
# Required-Stop:     $syslog $network $local_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start the Kamailio SIP proxy server
# Description:       Start the Kamailio SIP proxy server
### END INIT INFO
----end snip-------
Then run 'insserv kamailio'
Check /etc/rc2.d/ and you will see kamailio set to start after mysql.

That did it for me, I took out the 'sleep 20' from my previous post.

Hope this helps

JR
-- 
JR Richardson
Engineering for the Masses