asterisk : Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?) [closed]

Answer 1

There are two common reasons why this occurs:

1. Asterisk is not running.
2. You are trying to run asterisk -r as a non-root user.

If Asterisk isn't running, try to start it: asterisk -vvvc. If you are logged in as a non-root user, then log in as the root user, or just: sudo asterisk -r.