Can you check with a dpkg -l your asterisk version ? It should be 1.2.7.1.dfsg-2ubuntu3.1 now.
I can not reproduce your bug, and I have experienced none of the problem you listed here with my Ubuntu Asterisk box. Did you change the location of the pidfile ? Your fix concerns a PIDFILE that seems to be outside the /var/run directory. ** Changed in: asterisk (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- /etc/init.d/asterisk cannot start because of permissions https://launchpad.net/bugs/57572 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs