trixbox 2.2 final release

We are doing a "State of trixbox" seminar next Thursday. We will be announcing registration for it today sometime.

We are looking a billing systems but are not getting any cooperation from their developers.

Perfect! I was just about to do the deployment instal on our server... now I can do it with 2.2!

Thanks guys!

I am getting a

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Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 196

how do I fix that?

No, an upgrade...

turned on all repositories in settings, went to packages - bang...

q

Aha, so the whole is released before the parts...

That explains it, but doesn't make sense...

Later today is also a vague concept, when the readers of this forum span the globe... (and work odd hours).

You may want to be more specific i.e. No later than 5PM San Francisco time, or such like...

Or actually hold release until all aspects are ready... I daresay the "installed base of TB systems, far outweighs those waiting to install a virgin new release...".

q

Hi Kerry,

I am using the a2billing for all my billing (calling card, and termination), but I want to combine it as a module in the trixbox (freepbx or tbm). There is a newer version coming out soon.

There is a very good project - Voipnow - www.4psa.com. It does the most what I need, including a reseller option. It costs 995 $ for unlimited extensions. The lack of it is that it is acting more like a softswitch than a pbx. It is asterisk based, and I can do the integration of what I need, but it consumes a lot of time. You can offer the trixbox for free, and a professional version for companies who would pay for this unified solution.

I am willing to pay that price, but I want to be able to use the billing system as an integral part of the trixbox. Paying for that module would not be a problem. The integration of the PBX features and the tbm and the billing, would be a complete unified telephony solution for SOHO businesess and enterprises.

I would like to hear from you more. You can address my email or phone number.

Best Regards,

Daniel Friedman
Telco Services

Tel: 972.77.7112297
Mobile: 972.50.5922211

Have you tried the Package Manager yet? It doesn't work on my fresh install. (I posted new message in Help section.)

I've never posted a message on a forum though I've been working in the IT (networking) field for fifteen years, but I'm breaking my silence to thank everyone who contributed to this project. Work like this contributes more to the advancement of civilization than we can probably appreciate. Think about it....

I am waiting on an answer from the Trixbox Crew on if this works - I pounded on this for hours, but I would hate to have people start doing this only to find that it is a dead end.

What thrilled me is that the Backup module in freePBX started working - that means that even if I DO have to reload, getting everything set back up is fairly trivial.

Hopefully someone from the Trixbox Crew will answer soon.

Greg

P.S. - 2.2 is even BETTER than I thought!!!

Thanks that worked .... now I have 2.2

in firefox cdr only show two calls I will try it with explorer and see what happens

Thanks again ..... greatest product

Explorer worked just great for the cdr ...
in Packages got an error:

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Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 196

Any suggestions???

looks very nice .... great job guys

Kerry,

Talk to your staff regarding to this. Many people (like I used to) install's Trixbox too many times in order to get it working... Most of them keep looking for the successive restart's of Trixbox during this process (it might be a long process for older systems)... So today I was thinking (I shouldn't, but... here it goes)... Will you be apple to put Trixbox beeping three times when all installation procedure is complete? :D

Well… good morning to all of you!

(You might already be guessing why I'm so happy today!)

no need to enable for beta repo's yum to update "atleast on my test box"

I just use yum not the package manager (to slow for me)

yum install -y tbm-GUIcore.noarch (about ten meg download)

update
the box is now running 2.2.... took a few mins to do it.

I too, have never updated a Trixbox before. Anyone have any documentation on this and any official word as to whether or not the functionality is ready? I'd like to update my production system this weekend if at all possible.

Let me first establish some precedent - I have been a product manager for extremely large and complex pieces of software. I understand the strains that this can place on schedules etc. I also, from my experience, know when and where things can go off the rails. And when I see "release schedules" that are tantamount to "when we have 24 hours with out a bug report, we will ship what bits we can as fast as we can", having been "in this business" for longer than many of the participants of this forum have been alive, those sorts of comments send a shiver down my spine. It's not that difficult to establish and document a set of protocols etc for release management, bug tracking and so on. Other pieces of software have been doing that for over 40 years.

When I released products (even beta versions) to a broad or narrow market (full product shipor a test group) this would not be until both thorough testing of the product, as well as it's integration, and installation and most importantly de-installation had been fully tested. Just because others do not care to follow that level of quality assurance regimen is no reason for me to lower my expectations.

We have sadly been led down a path by the Microsoft/Open Source battle where comments like... "With all new releases there will always be issues, thats why a lot of companies do not roll out new os until it well proven." have become the norm. Yet organizations claim to have test labs, QA programs, and even beta programs.

Equally, I don't think I was being unreasonable in suggesting that any "announcements" actually specify the "time". As I mentioned, I am half way around the world, it's after midnight here. 1. It's not blatantly obvious where Fonality's homebase is, 2)not whether they mean Close of Business or Midnight, or before the start of the next business day. I don't think that is either too much to ask for a simple clarification. IN this instance, there are indications that my new upgrade is now broken (with a bug that appears to have been encountered by several others) It's not unreasonable to ask, a) if it has been acknowledged as a bug, b) whether someone has been assigned to fix it, and c) what the bug fix or work-around might be.

Of course, if there were comments in the code, or any form of public design documents for all of this code, then I may be motivated to chase the problem, but those things are lacking.

Bear in mind, that there are now many thousands of people that depend on this software. Better communications about releases, and bug fixes comes with the turf of taking on responsibility for the product.

While I appreciate the efforts of the team, that does not absolve them from criticism for taking what I perceive to be an inappropriate approach.

I also find the inference that I am sitting back and "demanding" insulting.
I have been involved in the development of documentation for it. (I co-authored parts of the previous versions of Beb Sharif's "Trixbox without tears", and facilitated moving a version of it online into a wiki.

I evangelize the product locally on almost a daily basis, and have done several pro-bono installations for other people. I routinely provide assistance in a country-local forum, as well as often being online and assisting others in the freepbx IRC.

I offered my services to Kerry as a Release Engineer some months back when it was blatantly obvious that efforts in that area where lacking. I did not even receive a response to my offer.

I think that I pull enough of my own weight with respect to this, to have a reasonable expectation of others.

And no, I am not paying huge support fees, and nor do I expect to. Fonality took on Trixbox of their own volition. Their motives for doing so, are not entirely altruistic. They plan to sell it as a commercial product, to sell services related to it, i.e. to make money from it. While I don't personally use it in a commercial sense, they have given assurances that the "free" open-source version will remain that way, so I don't think it is unreasonable of me, or anyone else to expect them to honor that commitment. Equally, given the "when we get to it/going as fast as we can approach" to technical support to date, I would be looking for better SLA's before paying anything for support anyway.

Mister Q

Hi,

maybe I'm a bit confused, or missed some other post, but at the top of this thread it says one should not yet update with the update script, and in your latest message you say that updating is possible.
With this script, or by some other method?

Someone said something in a previous message about just using yum to update the trixbox package. That sounds fine, but only if all that's changed is the actual trixbox software.

So here's my other question: does the trixbox 2.2 only upgrade the trixbox GUI components, or are there updates to the version of asterisk/zaptel in use, freePBX, the OS, etc. part of that upgrade, too? What else, other than the trixbox GUI, is updated, if anything?

Thanks!

Ronald

"Surprisingly enough, there are no bugs opened on 2.2 at this time. "

Hmm, I tried to report a bug, but the bug tracker won't let me register, or I'm doing something wrong. I click on Bug Tracker on left hand side of screen. Since I've never reported a bug before, I click on "Register New Account". I then receive "You are not authorized to access this page."

I updated via yum and then did the GUIcore manually. Something odd happened with incoming calls so I ended up restoring the image with Actonis True Image I made just before updating - I guess I'll be waiting a bit

Using package manager this morning, I selected some items to install trixbox; they seemed to download fine and after restarting my system, I noticed some nice improvements. :)
When selecting the items to install earlier, I only selected "regular release items" i.e., no beta or beta upgrades as I saw a caution note on one of the forum postings.

I went back to the package manager to check what else looked nice to install/upgrade, but had the following error messages on the screen:

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Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 21

Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 196

I tried selecting several combinations in the Repositories, but still get errors.
It looks like I am able to login ok and can see my registration key when I check it.

How do I get the package manager back in working condition???
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

OK, so if we can simply use yum update, what do we need the update script for?
Sorry, just trying to put the pieces together in my head...

Ronald

XXX

Regardless of those who are never satisfied, let me say that Trixbox is by far the best "Open Source" product I've ever loaded! In one install you have assembled the most usefull tools in the telephony/VOIP market to date. Your dedication is relentless and anyone who uses your image owes a huge THANK YOU!!!

The old saying "you get what you pay for" goes right out the window with Trixbox. Regardless of schedules that have slipped, 2.2 is released and we should all extend our gratitude. Those that would prefer to b*tch about the project should shut up and go BUY something they like better.

Thanks again to each team member for a job VERY well done.

Jaye

Not sure where you want this but, I did the package manager update from 2.0 and had a couple local modules that where not being used and when the upgrade was done they are now installed and setup.

I was going to try the package manager update on a second machine with more modules not being used to see if it happened again, but when I did the first one it broke the package manager the same as it did for 2 others on here where it says

Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 21

Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 196

So I wanted to get that working again before I tried it on another machine.

Same here.

For anyone else, who like me, got bitten by the genYumArray bug, I have found a fix, which works for me, posted by Michael Hayden at.

http://forge.trixbox.org/gf/project/trixbox2/tracker/?action=Trac...

I have one other outstanding bug. Checking my logs (doesn't everyone) - I am getting Munin
failing since the upgrade with a cron daemon report of
Cannot open /var/www/html/munin/localhost/localhost-asterisk_channels.html at /usr/share/munin/munin-html
line 488.

Looking at line 488 it's

open (FILE, ">$config->{htmldir}/$domain/$node-$service.html") or die "Cannot open $config->{htmldir}/$domain/$node-$service.html";

yet when I look in /var/www/html/munin/localhost/

-rw-r--r-- 1 asterisk asterisk 2733 May 4 13:15 localhost-asterisk_channels.html

is there... Can't understand this? is it an ownership/protection issue on that file?

Answering my own question - it would appear so.

chown -R munin:munin /var/www/html/munin/

seems to have cleared that up, I hope..

I had the same sort of errors like you report:

Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 21

Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /var/www/html/maint/includes/functions/genYumArray.php on line 196

In my case, it was that I didn't have, for some reason, all the repo files in the the /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder. Check if all are there...

That fixed it for me. Plus try a yum clean all followed by a yum make cache

Ronald

Hi,

What's the kernel-module-drbd package? Tried to google it, and the only reference that was found was in some trixbox installation log on some web page. So that wasn't very illuminating.
Since I have a custom kernel, I likely don't have that available. So if this is something for special hardware, etc. it won't make a difference, but if it's doing something else, I may need to be aware of how the absence of this module could affect operations.

Ronald

sounds like the trixbox-update.sh script is going to be "un-depreciated" so all the update issues can get fixed.

I tried updating using YUM and ended up restoring the Acronis True Image - image of the drive that I had made just before running the update. Unfortunately I didn't have time to track down the issue.

What I did to install 2.2 was re-install from scratch, throw my latest backup onto the server, and load it up.

One issue caused by this is that FreePBX was somehow downgraded back to RC3 -- I just had to go into the package manager and update it again. All my custom changes and settings were preserved.

And Robert: Yeah I had to also install Softecho back onto 2.2.

well, I tried to recover from the update boo-boo described above under the subject "Major bug: dependencies install rpms from disabled repos".

I was able to use some tricks to remove the zaptel/asterisk 1.4 installations, re-install the 1.2 versions, force a reinstall of the hud-lite server, update the php5 software (procedures for all of this available upon request).

What I now have is somwhat of a hybrid system; mySQL 5.x, php5.x, asterisk/zaptel 1.2. (upon reflection, maybe the asterisk 1.4 to 1.2 downgrade wouldn't have been required and fixing php might have been sufficient, and I may try that later).

The short of it is, that I now have again a system that's sort of working. There are however two issues:

a) the FOP shows up, but it shows none of the extensions. So somehow the configuration was screwed up or got out of sync with what asterisk sees. So my question is: how to get FOP back in sync?

b) when I go to the Packages page in the admin mode, I try to login to the trixbox site, but when I have entered username and password, I get this error message: "Error: the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid. Received: "
I assume this is because I had to force-deinstall the php-domxml package, whith is php4 only, but reading up on it, it says the package is obsolete in php5, which means the same/similar functionality is part of php5 standard.
However, it would seem, that there are some small differences that cause this particular error. Just about everything else seems to work just fine with the php5 that's now installed. Are there any workarounds known?

If I can get a) and b) fixed, I can try if the whole thing works with asterisk 1.4, too. If so, we're well on our way to a CentOS 5.0/Asterisk 1.4 based setup, because I already run a 2.6.21.1 kernel, and use php5/mySQL5 (not intentionally, but because I can't downgade and the only option I have is to revert to a month or so old backup).

Ronald

I didn't have time yet to investigate the issues in depth, however, if there are dependencies on php4's domxml module, then this here might work:

http://alexandre.alapetite.net/doc-alex/domxml-php4-php5/index.en...

That might also be handy for some of the code when Trixbox stuff is supposed to work both on CentOS5/php5/mysql5 and CentOS4/php4/mysql4

Has anyone had a successful "update" yet? I was going to update my box over the weekend, however, was unable to get to it. Was going to do it after business hours today, however, if ppl aren't having any luck with this, I don't want waste my time. I'm not so much worried about screwing up my box because I always use G4U to make a copy of the drive before I dink with it.

Anyhow, amid all the problems are there any success stories here????

Is it safe to use the trixbox-update.sh yet?

Kerry,

I follow all the steps I found in this tread I I successfully upgrade from TB2 to tb 2.2

Great work ! Thank you !!!

P.S.
I Still have a oproblem with the callback module (it doesen't work). Can you suggest me something ?

Thank you again for youur eccellent work

Hi,

I noticed it still says the upgrade script will be ready later today, and the text will be updated as soon as the upgrade script is ready. It seems to still say we cannot run trixbox-upgrade.sh yet, to me that means we soon will be able to. When should I expect this, or an updated information on how to upgrade to v2.2.

Thanks,
-dave

Ya'll get real defensive and snippy in a hurry.

No one is saying that you didn't work hard on this version or that we don't appreciate your work and yes, maybe our expectations of a "free" product are a tad too high, but it seems to me that we've gone backwards in terms of how easy it is to upgrade. ...and this is supposed to be the most tested release of trixbox to date?

As others have mentioned, Fonality isn't doing ALL of this out of the goodness of their heart and it seems that you spend a lot of time flaming those of us who question the blind fanboyish posts.