[arm-allstar] problems after upgrading

[Don Sayler]

Thanks David. I assume I'll need to stop Asterisk first. I can do that from
the Admin buttons on the supermon page, and there's a shell script too,
right?

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022, 1:01 PM David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Don,
>
> I suspect the problem is a typo in a config file in the /etc/asterisk
> directory.  The 1.7.1 software release corrected several bugs related to
> poor handing of config file handling.  The way I usually look for this
> type of problem is to launch asterisk interactively, with all the startup
> messages scrolling on the screen.  Then, look for something abnormal.  I
> realize this implies a high level of understanding about what all the
> messages mean.  I'll be glad to help take a look, if needed.  Please
> contact me off list.  To launch asterisk interactively, go to a bash
> prompt (admin menu option #9) and run:
>
> [root at RPi-Z2W ~]# asterisk -vvvvgc
>
> <snip>
>
> *CLI> stop now
>
> Use the command "stop now" to exit the CLI.
>
> The 'power-cycle the usb sub-system' was added in the RPi3B days and
> was a great feature....Unfortunately, as of the more recent boards
> (RPi4B), this caused the board to crash as well as reseting the USB bus.
> That's why the feature was removed.
>
>
>
> 73, David K4FXC
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, "Don Sayler via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I was doing some work at our site, so I updated our hamvoip image. We're
> > now at firmware 1.7.1-04, asterisk 1.4.23-pre, and app_rpt 0.327.
> >
> > After the update, Allstar worked. But a while later, we discovered that
> > while the internet side was working, the node is not triggering or
> > responding to the repeater.
> >
> > I tried the 'power-cycle the usb sub-system' from the Admin menu. I get a
> > message that says 'This feature is not currently available.'
> >
> > After the update, I copied over our original conf files, including the
> > simple usb tuning one.
> >
> > Help. I don't know what to try next.
> >
> > Don
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