Urgent Help please: freePBX 13 on debian no longer working
Hello Everyone. Firstly, let me thank all of you on list for past help provided. I have the following problem which I hope you can assist with. I recently bought a fanless gigabyte brix computer with an intel atom J1900 CPU. My intention was to run debian with freePBX on it. It arrived and I put in a 128GB SSD with 4GB of Ram. I used the 32bit debian netinstall iso file to install debian, then used the following guide to install asterisk: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Installing+FreePBX+13+on+Debian+8.1 Everything installed fine and asterisk was working like a dream. this all took place about a month ago. I recently decided to purchase another brix and create a backup switchboard. Having purchased a similar model with a slightly different CPU, I used the same guide to the letter and followed the same steps to install asterisk. It would not work. FreePBX kept telling me it couldn't connect to asterisk in the browser when I applied the config and asking me to check for the existence of various config files all of which exist and are writeable. Usernames and passwords for SQL are correct. Asterisk and free PBX will run fine when i initially install, but when I reboot asterisk refuses to run. I then thought it was something I'd done, so tried reinstalling from scratch with different sticks of ram, formatting the SSD, different network IP addresses i.e DHCP instead of assigning a static IP address, changing DNS servers, etc. I must've reinstalled now at least 6 times. I then thought i'd try and be clever but in fact was very stupid. I decided to see if I could reinstall to the originnal brix in future if it ever failed, and format the original brix and reinstall asterisk on there to see if that would work. That no longer works either. So i'm left in a position where I have no switchboard and have to go back to my trusty raspberry pi. The reason why I switched from the Pi 3 in the first place was because recordings were being mangled by the pi, they were being recorded in such a way that both channels were mixed so both people were talking over each other probably because of the fact everything is running from the micro SD card, or lack of CPU processing power. Does anyone have any idea if anything has broken recently when it comes to free PBX? I did read on a forum that PHP 5.6 may not play well with FreePBX 13, but I couldn't find any official documentation confirming this. Is there a way I could force install an earlier version of PHP and see if that fixes anything? I would really like to get a reliable system up and running where I do not need sighted help to install it. The official free PBX distro requires sighted help to install as it's based on red hat, so I'm left wondering what other distros I can use that are reliable and where asterisk isn't such a sod to get up and running. It's such a shame, when it works it's wonderful. I wish the error messages would not keep changing. I have searched countless online forums over the last 3 days but non of the solutions seem to fix the problems I'm having, they all seem to refer to different errors. I know this list has a max message size limit and may not allow attachments, so I will not paste a copy of a sample log below. It can be sent if necessary. I am vexed why the install would work absolutely fine the first time round with what appears to be the exact same steps but refuses to work ever since. If someone knows of a turn key distro I could use or a more reliable distro that doesn't require sighted help to install from scratch and maintain, I would really appreciate any help. If someone is prepared to troubleshoot FreePBX remotely via SSH or the web, that could also be an option. Thanks for reading, Mo.
This may not be an ideal solution, but there are three major active PBX distros. If you must use Asterisk and do not want to use another PBX/soft switch, look at Ward’s tutorials at http://nerdvittles.com. There’s also 3CX for Linux (see Ward’s site). Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh Bill
On Jun 5, 2017, at 11:45 PM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone. Firstly, let me thank all of you on list for past help provided. I have the following problem which I hope you can assist with. I recently bought a fanless gigabyte brix computer with an intel atom J1900 CPU. My intention was to run debian with freePBX on it. It arrived and I put in a 128GB SSD with 4GB of Ram. I used the 32bit debian netinstall iso file to install debian, then used the following guide to install asterisk: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Installing+FreePBX+13+on+Debian+8.1 Everything installed fine and asterisk was working like a dream. this all took place about a month ago. I recently decided to purchase another brix and create a backup switchboard. Having purchased a similar model with a slightly different CPU, I used the same guide to the letter and followed the same steps to install asterisk. It would not work. FreePBX kept telling me it couldn't connect to asterisk in the browser when I applied the config and asking me to check for the existence of various config files all of which exist and are writeable. Usernames and passwords for SQL are correct. Asterisk and free PBX will run fine when i initially install, but when I reboot asterisk refuses to run. I then thought it was something I'd done, so tried reinstalling from scratch with different sticks of ram, formatting the SSD, different network IP addresses i.e DHCP instead of assigning a static IP address, changing DNS servers, etc. I must've reinstalled now at least 6 times. I then thought i'd try and be clever but in fact was very stupid. I decided to see if I could reinstall to the originnal brix in future if it ever failed, and format the original brix and reinstall asterisk on there to see if that would work. That no longer works either. So i'm left in a position where I have no switchboard and have to go back to my trusty raspberry pi. The reason why I switched from the Pi 3 in the first place was because recordings were being mangled by the pi, they were being recorded in such a way that both channels were mixed so both people were talking over each other probably because of the fact everything is running from the micro SD card, or lack of CPU processing power. Does anyone have any idea if anything has broken recently when it comes to free PBX? I did read on a forum that PHP 5.6 may not play well with FreePBX 13, but I couldn't find any official documentation confirming this. Is there a way I could force install an earlier version of PHP and see if that fixes anything? I would really like to get a reliable system up and running where I do not need sighted help to install it. The official free PBX distro requires sighted help to install as it's based on red hat, so I'm left wondering what other distros I can use that are reliable and where asterisk isn't such a sod to get up and running. It's such a shame, when it works it's wonderful. I wish the error messages would not keep changing. I have searched countless online forums over the last 3 days but non of the solutions seem to fix the problems I'm having, they all seem to refer to different errors. I know this list has a max message size limit and may not allow attachments, so I will not paste a copy of a sample log below. It can be sent if necessary. I am vexed why the install would work absolutely fine the first time round with what appears to be the exact same steps but refuses to work ever since. If someone knows of a turn key distro I could use or a more reliable distro that doesn't require sighted help to install from scratch and maintain, I would really appreciate any help. If someone is prepared to troubleshoot FreePBX remotely via SSH or the web, that could also be an option. Thanks for reading, Mo.
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Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh
I made the move from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH a number of years ago, and have never regretted it. There are FreeSWITCH packages available for Debian (or, at least, there were when I last checked).
Hi. I've always found feature codes in freePBX to be very useful, for example for putting people on hold during a call, the stopping/starting of recordings in real time etc, the echo test call etc. Would fusion PBX or free switch offer the same functionality? Would you recommend installing via the fusion PBX method? or installing the free switch package on an existing installation of debian? Many thanks, Mo. On 06/06/2017 01:43, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh
I made the move from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH a number of years ago, and have never regretted it. There are FreeSWITCH packages available for Debian (or, at least, there were when I last checked).
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Use the Fusion PBX script, it installs the Debian packages for you and configures them for use with the web GUI. FreeSWITCH has very powerful, customizable feature code support letting you do basically anything under the sun. Bill
On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I've always found feature codes in freePBX to be very useful, for example for putting people on hold during a call, the stopping/starting of recordings in real time etc, the echo test call etc. Would fusion PBX or free switch offer the same functionality? Would you recommend installing via the fusion PBX method? or installing the free switch package on an existing installation of debian? Many thanks, Mo.
On 06/06/2017 01:43, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh
I made the move from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH a number of years ago, and have never regretted it. There are FreeSWITCH packages available for Debian (or, at least, there were when I last checked).
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This probably won't solve the problem, but are you updating packages as part of the installation process? Does it work if you try and install it using the versions of packages that ship with the version of Debian you're installing? I've had lots of fun when coming back to projects that I've left for a few months only to find that my notes no longer work because some obscure package has received a minor version upgrade since I last used it. That's always an interesting journey ! Good luck! On 6/6/17, Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Use the Fusion PBX script, it installs the Debian packages for you and configures them for use with the web GUI. FreeSWITCH has very powerful, customizable feature code support letting you do basically anything under the sun.
Bill
On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I've always found feature codes in freePBX to be very useful, for example for putting people on hold during a call, the stopping/starting of recordings in real time etc, the echo test call etc. Would fusion PBX or free switch offer the same functionality? Would you recommend installing via the fusion PBX method? or installing the free switch package on an existing installation of debian? Many thanks, Mo.
On 06/06/2017 01:43, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh
I made the move from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH a number of years ago, and have never regretted it. There are FreeSWITCH packages available for Debian (or, at least, there were when I last checked).
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I know exactly what you mean, and the choice to use original packages is taken out of my hands unfortunately as the installer pulls in updates automatically when installing the base system. So I can't use the older packages even if I wanted to. That's probably what's happened here. My suspicion lies potentially with PHP, all my config files look fine. I did try to send a copy of logs to the list earlier but was informed that the list doesn't accept attachments or messages above 40KB in size. permissions seem to be set correctly as well. I'm going to follow Bill's and Jason's suggestion and try fusion PBX to see if that's any better. Hopefully it won't be as headache inducing. Many thanks to everyone for your help. Mo. On 06/06/2017 03:53, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:
This probably won't solve the problem, but are you updating packages as part of the installation process? Does it work if you try and install it using the versions of packages that ship with the version of Debian you're installing?
I've had lots of fun when coming back to projects that I've left for a few months only to find that my notes no longer work because some obscure package has received a minor version upgrade since I last used it. That's always an interesting journey !
Good luck!
On 6/6/17, Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Use the Fusion PBX script, it installs the Debian packages for you and configures them for use with the web GUI. FreeSWITCH has very powerful, customizable feature code support letting you do basically anything under the sun.
Bill
On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I've always found feature codes in freePBX to be very useful, for example for putting people on hold during a call, the stopping/starting of recordings in real time etc, the echo test call etc. Would fusion PBX or free switch offer the same functionality? Would you recommend installing via the fusion PBX method? or installing the free switch package on an existing installation of debian? Many thanks, Mo.
On 06/06/2017 01:43, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh I made the move from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH a number of years ago, and have never regretted it. There are FreeSWITCH packages available for Debian (or, at least, there were when I last checked).
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This probably won't solve the problem, but are you updating packages as part of the installation process? Does it work if you try and install it using the versions of packages that ship with the version of Debian you're installing? I've had lots of fun when coming back to projects that I've left for a few months only to find that my notes no longer work because some obscure package has received a minor version upgrade since I last used it. That's always an interesting journey ! Good luck! On 6/6/17, Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Use the Fusion PBX script, it installs the Debian packages for you and configures them for use with the web GUI. FreeSWITCH has very powerful, customizable feature code support letting you do basically anything under the sun.
Bill
On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi. I've always found feature codes in freePBX to be very useful, for example for putting people on hold during a call, the stopping/starting of recordings in real time etc, the echo test call etc. Would fusion PBX or free switch offer the same functionality? Would you recommend installing via the fusion PBX method? or installing the free switch package on an existing installation of debian? Many thanks, Mo.
On 06/06/2017 01:43, Jason White via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I’d recommend Fusion PBX as it seems a bit more reliable/less error prone than Ward’s stuff: http://github.com/fusionpbx/fusionpbx-install.sh
I made the move from Asterisk to FreeSWITCH a number of years ago, and have never regretted it. There are FreeSWITCH packages available for Debian (or, at least, there were when I last checked).
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Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
Use the Fusion PBX script, it installs the Debian packages for you and configures them for use with the web GUI. FreeSWITCH has very powerful, customizable feature code support letting you do basically anything under the sun.
I can confirm Bill's comment about FreeSWITCH. Once you know enough of the XML configuration syntax to customize it (and the FreeSWITCH wiki is very helpful in this regard), you have a very sophisticated telephony application at your fingertips. If you want to take it further (and, so far, I haven't found this necessary, but my needs are fairly basic), you can use one of the supported scripting languages.
Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@gmail.com> wrote:
PBX will run fine when i initially install, but when I reboot asterisk refuses to run.
Are there error messages in the system logs or in the Asterisk logs? A good strategy is to find the error message, then query it using your preferred Web search engine. This may uncover mailing list posts, bug reports, etc., that can provide solutions.
Hi, Reading that wiki it seems there are a lot of floating versions on here which could have caused the issue. Worth checking the forums to see if anyone else has this issue. Why are you going with the Debian version rather than the appliance? Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Mobeen Iqbal [mobeeniqbal@gmail.com] Sent: 06 June 2017 00:45 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Urgent Help please: freePBX 13 on debian no longer working Hello Everyone. Firstly, let me thank all of you on list for past help provided. I have the following problem which I hope you can assist with. I recently bought a fanless gigabyte brix computer with an intel atom J1900 CPU. My intention was to run debian with freePBX on it. It arrived and I put in a 128GB SSD with 4GB of Ram. I used the 32bit debian netinstall iso file to install debian, then used the following guide to install asterisk: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Installing+FreePBX+13+on+Debian+8.1 Everything installed fine and asterisk was working like a dream. this all took place about a month ago. I recently decided to purchase another brix and create a backup switchboard. Having purchased a similar model with a slightly different CPU, I used the same guide to the letter and followed the same steps to install asterisk. It would not work. FreePBX kept telling me it couldn't connect to asterisk in the browser when I applied the config and asking me to check for the existence of various config files all of which exist and are writeable. Usernames and passwords for SQL are correct. Asterisk and free PBX will run fine when i initially install, but when I reboot asterisk refuses to run. I then thought it was something I'd done, so tried reinstalling from scratch with different sticks of ram, formatting the SSD, different network IP addresses i.e DHCP instead of assigning a static IP address, changing DNS servers, etc. I must've reinstalled now at least 6 times. I then thought i'd try and be clever but in fact was very stupid. I decided to see if I could reinstall to the originnal brix in future if it ever failed, and format the original brix and reinstall asterisk on there to see if that would work. That no longer works either. So i'm left in a position where I have no switchboard and have to go back to my trusty raspberry pi. The reason why I switched from the Pi 3 in the first place was because recordings were being mangled by the pi, they were being recorded in such a way that both channels were mixed so both people were talking over each other probably because of the fact everything is running from the micro SD card, or lack of CPU processing power. Does anyone have any idea if anything has broken recently when it comes to free PBX? I did read on a forum that PHP 5.6 may not play well with FreePBX 13, but I couldn't find any official documentation confirming this. Is there a way I could force install an earlier version of PHP and see if that fixes anything? I would really like to get a reliable system up and running where I do not need sighted help to install it. The official free PBX distro requires sighted help to install as it's based on red hat, so I'm left wondering what other distros I can use that are reliable and where asterisk isn't such a sod to get up and running. It's such a shame, when it works it's wonderful. I wish the error messages would not keep changing. I have searched countless online forums over the last 3 days but non of the solutions seem to fix the problems I'm having, they all seem to refer to different errors. I know this list has a max message size limit and may not allow attachments, so I will not paste a copy of a sample log below. It can be sent if necessary. I am vexed why the install would work absolutely fine the first time round with what appears to be the exact same steps but refuses to work ever since. If someone knows of a turn key distro I could use or a more reliable distro that doesn't require sighted help to install from scratch and maintain, I would really appreciate any help. If someone is prepared to troubleshoot FreePBX remotely via SSH or the web, that could also be an option. Thanks for reading, Mo. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, Reading that wiki it seems there are a lot of floating versions on here which could have caused the issue. Worth checking the forums to see if anyone else has this issue. Why are you going with the Debian version rather than the appliance? Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Mobeen Iqbal [mobeeniqbal@gmail.com] Sent: 06 June 2017 00:45 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Urgent Help please: freePBX 13 on debian no longer working Hello Everyone. Firstly, let me thank all of you on list for past help provided. I have the following problem which I hope you can assist with. I recently bought a fanless gigabyte brix computer with an intel atom J1900 CPU. My intention was to run debian with freePBX on it. It arrived and I put in a 128GB SSD with 4GB of Ram. I used the 32bit debian netinstall iso file to install debian, then used the following guide to install asterisk: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Installing+FreePBX+13+on+Debian+8.1 Everything installed fine and asterisk was working like a dream. this all took place about a month ago. I recently decided to purchase another brix and create a backup switchboard. Having purchased a similar model with a slightly different CPU, I used the same guide to the letter and followed the same steps to install asterisk. It would not work. FreePBX kept telling me it couldn't connect to asterisk in the browser when I applied the config and asking me to check for the existence of various config files all of which exist and are writeable. Usernames and passwords for SQL are correct. Asterisk and free PBX will run fine when i initially install, but when I reboot asterisk refuses to run. I then thought it was something I'd done, so tried reinstalling from scratch with different sticks of ram, formatting the SSD, different network IP addresses i.e DHCP instead of assigning a static IP address, changing DNS servers, etc. I must've reinstalled now at least 6 times. I then thought i'd try and be clever but in fact was very stupid. I decided to see if I could reinstall to the originnal brix in future if it ever failed, and format the original brix and reinstall asterisk on there to see if that would work. That no longer works either. So i'm left in a position where I have no switchboard and have to go back to my trusty raspberry pi. The reason why I switched from the Pi 3 in the first place was because recordings were being mangled by the pi, they were being recorded in such a way that both channels were mixed so both people were talking over each other probably because of the fact everything is running from the micro SD card, or lack of CPU processing power. Does anyone have any idea if anything has broken recently when it comes to free PBX? I did read on a forum that PHP 5.6 may not play well with FreePBX 13, but I couldn't find any official documentation confirming this. Is there a way I could force install an earlier version of PHP and see if that fixes anything? I would really like to get a reliable system up and running where I do not need sighted help to install it. The official free PBX distro requires sighted help to install as it's based on red hat, so I'm left wondering what other distros I can use that are reliable and where asterisk isn't such a sod to get up and running. It's such a shame, when it works it's wonderful. I wish the error messages would not keep changing. I have searched countless online forums over the last 3 days but non of the solutions seem to fix the problems I'm having, they all seem to refer to different errors. I know this list has a max message size limit and may not allow attachments, so I will not paste a copy of a sample log below. It can be sent if necessary. I am vexed why the install would work absolutely fine the first time round with what appears to be the exact same steps but refuses to work ever since. If someone knows of a turn key distro I could use or a more reliable distro that doesn't require sighted help to install from scratch and maintain, I would really appreciate any help. If someone is prepared to troubleshoot FreePBX remotely via SSH or the web, that could also be an option. Thanks for reading, Mo. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi Andrew. For the simple reason that the appliance requires sighted help to install unless you know of a way of installing it via speech independently? cheers, Mo. On 06/06/2017 09:58, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Hi,
Reading that wiki it seems there are a lot of floating versions on here which could have caused the issue. Worth checking the forums to see if anyone else has this issue. Why are you going with the Debian version rather than the appliance?
Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Mobeen Iqbal [mobeeniqbal@gmail.com] Sent: 06 June 2017 00:45 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Urgent Help please: freePBX 13 on debian no longer working
Hello Everyone. Firstly, let me thank all of you on list for past help provided. I have the following problem which I hope you can assist with. I recently bought a fanless gigabyte brix computer with an intel atom J1900 CPU. My intention was to run debian with freePBX on it. It arrived and I put in a 128GB SSD with 4GB of Ram. I used the 32bit debian netinstall iso file to install debian, then used the following guide to install asterisk: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Installing+FreePBX+13+on+Debian+8.1 Everything installed fine and asterisk was working like a dream. this all took place about a month ago. I recently decided to purchase another brix and create a backup switchboard. Having purchased a similar model with a slightly different CPU, I used the same guide to the letter and followed the same steps to install asterisk. It would not work. FreePBX kept telling me it couldn't connect to asterisk in the browser when I applied the config and asking me to check for the existence of various config files all of which exist and are writeable. Usernames and passwords for SQL are correct. Asterisk and free PBX will run fine when i initially install, but when I reboot asterisk refuses to run. I then thought it was something I'd done, so tried reinstalling from scratch with different sticks of ram, formatting the SSD, different network IP addresses i.e DHCP instead of assigning a static IP address, changing DNS servers, etc. I must've reinstalled now at least 6 times. I then thought i'd try and be clever but in fact was very stupid. I decided to see if I could reinstall to the originnal brix in future if it ever failed, and format the original brix and reinstall asterisk on there to see if that would work. That no longer works either. So i'm left in a position where I have no switchboard and have to go back to my trusty raspberry pi. The reason why I switched from the Pi 3 in the first place was because recordings were being mangled by the pi, they were being recorded in such a way that both channels were mixed so both people were talking over each other probably because of the fact everything is running from the micro SD card, or lack of CPU processing power. Does anyone have any idea if anything has broken recently when it comes to free PBX? I did read on a forum that PHP 5.6 may not play well with FreePBX 13, but I couldn't find any official documentation confirming this. Is there a way I could force install an earlier version of PHP and see if that fixes anything? I would really like to get a reliable system up and running where I do not need sighted help to install it. The official free PBX distro requires sighted help to install as it's based on red hat, so I'm left wondering what other distros I can use that are reliable and where asterisk isn't such a sod to get up and running. It's such a shame, when it works it's wonderful. I wish the error messages would not keep changing. I have searched countless online forums over the last 3 days but non of the solutions seem to fix the problems I'm having, they all seem to refer to different errors. I know this list has a max message size limit and may not allow attachments, so I will not paste a copy of a sample log below. It can be sent if necessary. I am vexed why the install would work absolutely fine the first time round with what appears to be the exact same steps but refuses to work ever since. If someone knows of a turn key distro I could use or a more reliable distro that doesn't require sighted help to install from scratch and maintain, I would really appreciate any help. If someone is prepared to troubleshoot FreePBX remotely via SSH or the web, that could also be an option. Thanks for reading, Mo.
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