Comments on: Introducing Asterisk 1.2: Here’s How to Quickly Upgrade

By: Ward Mundy

Ward Mundy — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:26:06 +0000

NOTE: This upgrade won't work directly with Mac OS X although a new version is on the way. You can read all about the latest, great versions of Asterisk for the Mac here.

By: Darksource

Darksource — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:03:53 +0000

Nice tut– that was a completely seamless upgrade.

By: Kevin McCarn

Kevin McCarn — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:23:39 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. All went well until I rebooted.
Apparently – since I didn’t configure my zaptel modules – asterisk wouldn’t load.
I commented out everything in the zaptel.conf file and asterisk starts – now I get to go back and figure out how to configure my channels.
Not a problem. (I hope)
After I get it all set – I’ll run/install mondo rescue and swap the hard drive to see how long the rebuild takes.
If you’re intersted – I’ll post a howto.
Again – thanks from Northern VA.

By: macronet

macronet — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:24:14 +0000

Thanks for your Tutorials. I got my SPA3K configued from your artical, and start enjoying Asterisk, Asteirsk@home is a great prject, and your tutorials make it greater. And I also learn English from your articals. Your articals explain everything with simple English, very easy to understand and it’s fun too. Change something according to your instructions and Bang, it works. Could you write an artical to give instructions how to upgrade from 2.0bets4 to beta6 (or to the final release 2.0)? I use the same computer to run hosting service and I don’t want to insall the asterisk @home from ISO files. I want to just download the asterisk@home tar files and install the *@home. I want to know how to remove the old version *@home and install new version just like a fresh install from the ISO file(which reform the hard drive). If you can tell how to upgrade while keeping the configuration from the old version, that will be great. Thanks for your great help.

[WM: Yeah. We all wish there was a simple way to upgrade. Unfortunately, it’s easier said than done. The beta 6 adds an entirely new version of both the operating system and Asterisk so I’m afraid you’ll have to write everything down and start over. We’ll have the tutorial on it soon.]

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:03:25 +0000

Awesome – thanks for the tutorials, they are fantastic – of course, I want more…more…more….since AAH 2.0 Beta 6 includes Asterisk 1.2, but has only beta of AMP 1.10.10 – do you know how to upgrade to release of AMP 1.10.10?

[WM: Good information. Thanks. As for upgrading to AMP 1.10.10, I think you’d lose the Maintenance Panel by doing it yourself. It just came out today so I’d spot Andrew a few days, and I’m sure there will be another release.]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:09:12 +0000

Ward, your tutorials are great! If I upgrade as you describe, can I restore my backups from my current *@Home 1.5 or do I have to re-enter everything? Thanks Steve [WM: We don't recommend an upgrade from @Home 1.5; however, read the saga above which it turned out was an upgrade of 1.5.]

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:49:50 +0000

Ward- I’ve been following your tutorials for months all along with great success and admiration-
Today- I seem to have crashed my Asterisk with the upgrade-
Won’t restart after your step by step- (I’m a checker and recheckerr-so I’m pretty sure everything was done correctly)-

From tail /var/log/asterisk/full-
I get:
"WARNING:[14644] loader.c: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_modem.so: undefined symbol: ast_pthread_create
WARNING: module chan_modem.so failed!"

redid the steps with the same result, rebooting doesn’t help-

Any assistance will be much appreciated-
Thanks-

[WM: Hmmm. Make clean should have fixed all of this. Edit the /etc/asterisk/modules.conf file and change "load chan_modem.so" to "noload chan_modem.so." Then add the following noload’s as well: noload chan_modem_aopen.so, noload chan_modem_bestdata.so, and noload chan_modem_i4l.so. Then stop and restart Asterisk. If that doesn’t do it, try removing the modules and then repeat the install:
rm -f /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_modem*]

You didn’t mention which version of Asterisk@Home you were upgrading. I hope it wasn’t 1.5… ]

[Mark: The answer (the incorrect one at that- I assume from your question) is I upgraded from 1.5
I didn’t think it would be an issue-was waiting for 2.0 to get out of BETA-
you had only gone to 2.0 for bluetooth, which was slightly overkill for my needs-

However- after your fix in the comments today-I got one more WARNING re: loading pbx_wilcalu, I went and noloaded that as well and all is fine again in ASTERISKLAND-
So there doesn’t appear to be any irrepairable harm done-

Thanks again for your help with this issue, as well as your excellent entertaining articles- I look forward to them every week- PS excellent call on Telasip!!!! Great quality and customer service- (even though they’re a little slow on the DID’s- outgoing service was immediate- but the DID’s took a month to get- seems it was a Level3 issue).]

[WM: The beauty of this in place upgrade (assuming it works) is that you’ve got all your original settings from Asterisk@Home 1.5 which is something you simply can’t do by loading a new version of Asterisk@Home. Good luck and keep us posted on any further problems. I may get brave enough to try it myself after your experiment. I’m just sorry you had to be our guinea pig!]