[arm-allstar] problems after upgrading

[David McGough]

Yes, you need to stop asterisk, first.  This command will work:

[root at RPi-Z2W ~]# asterisk -rx 'stop now'

..And, you should see:

[root at RPi-Z2W ~]# Asterisk ended with exit status 0
Asterisk shutdown normally.



On Sat, 1 Oct 2022, Don Sayler wrote:

> 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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