# Asterisk CLI disfunction **URL:** \ **Category:** Asterisk Support\ **Created:** [March 26, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253 "2020-03-26T06:40:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sami-hep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sami-hep](https://community.asterisk.org/u/sami-hep)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/1 "2020-03-26T06:40:36Z")
i think this problem showed up after i update my ubuntu 16 to ubuntu 18 few days ago. now every time i access my cli an try to type in it i just get something like : **\U+56170\U+5616A\U+56173\U+56169\U+56170** here i was typing pjsip but it looks as above. what is it ? how could this be fixed ? ---
**Author:** ![jcolp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/jcolp/32/8848_2.png) [@jcolp](https://community.asterisk.org/u/jcolp)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/2 "2020-03-26T09:59:16Z")
This happens if editline on the system is updated to a newer version, but Asterisk has not been rebuilt against it. Editline made a non-backwards compatible change. ---
**Author:** ![sami-hep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sami-hep](https://community.asterisk.org/u/sami-hep)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/3 "2020-03-26T10:08:27Z")
so what should i do ? could this be fixed ? ---
**Author:** ![jcolp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/jcolp/32/8848_2.png) [@jcolp](https://community.asterisk.org/u/jcolp)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/4 "2020-03-26T10:13:31Z")
If you’ve built Asterisk yourself, you would need to clean the source copy using “make distclean” and build a new copy. If it’s from a package then it’s a problem with the package itself. ---
**Author:** ![sami-hep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sami-hep](https://community.asterisk.org/u/sami-hep)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/5 "2020-03-26T10:18:27Z")
no i did not build asterisk myself. some people said that i could do this “./configure --without-libedit” or “./configure --with-libedit=internal” but both did not seem to work ! since there was no such a thing called --without-libedit and when i used --with-libedit i had to give it a parameter after “=” where it seems “internal” not there again ! then i tried to downgrade my libedit from 2017… to 20150325 but i could not as well … looks like that version does not work with ubuntu 18.04 ---
**Author:** ![traud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@traud](https://community.asterisk.org/u/traud)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/6 "2020-04-10T14:29:32Z")
Actually just ```auto ./configure make sudo make install ``` should do the trick, because then Asterisk adapts to your (new) system. However, if you did not build Asterisk yourself, where (or from whom) did you get it? ---
**Author:** ![sami-hep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sami-hep](https://community.asterisk.org/u/sami-hep)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/7 "2020-04-12T10:04:36Z")
yes that is true thank you mate ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/original/2X/4/475d0c889911cfb84ac4881ad6df8b523e3f9105.png) [@system](https://community.asterisk.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/asterisk-cli-disfunction/83253/8 "2020-05-12T10:18:20Z")
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