Stuck on Starting safe_freeswitch

Looks like this:

service freeswitch start
Starting safe_freeswitch

and nothing happens anymore.

Do:

killall -9 safe_freeswitch
killall -9 freeswitch
killall -9 fs_cli
service freeswitch start

Troubleshooting

killall -9 safe_freeswitch
killall -9 freeswitch
killall -9 fs_cli

/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -nf

Check what it writes.

[ERR] mod_event_socket.c:2969 Socket Error! Could not listen on 0.0.0.0:8021

Means port 8021 is taken.

netstat -vatupn | grep 8021

will show which process is on 8021 port. Usually it is fs_cli, kill it:

killall -9 fs_cli