switch_console.c:1053 We've become an orphan, no more console for us

Question

I installed the Freeswitch on Ubuntu Image in the Docker, referring to the documentation mentioned here.

When I did the following:

Start FreeSWITCH
First Time

cd /usr/local/freeswitch/bin

./freeswitch

I got to the following screen on my command prompt.

And as the last line says, [WARNING] switch_console.c:1053 We've become an orphan, no more console for us., something is wrong here I believe.

As per the documentation, I was expecting the prompt, like freeswitch@domain> .

Does anyone know what could be the problem? Upon researching this error I landed at the source file many times at different places, for example, one mentioned here

Answer 1

I had the same problem.

If we look in the source code of Freeswitch, we see

    if (getppid() == 1) {
        switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_WARNING, "We've become an orphan, no more console for us.\n");
        break;
    }

We see that we had pid == 1, this mean that parent process for freeswitch is init process but we launched it in bash docker run -it freeswitch_container bash

Problem described here

To solve this you just need to run another bash in running bash, so it will have pid != 1.