Not connecting asterisk in my ubuntu system

i am getting this msg
Asterisk 1.4.21.2~dfsg-1ubuntu3, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
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This package has been modified for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
Please report all bugs to http://bugs.debian.org/asterisk
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Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)