Whoops! Upgr 1.4 to 1.6, now Asterisk don't start

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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The installation seemed to go smoothly enough, but post-install, 1.4 was still running, so I rebooted the box. Now Asterisk won’t start.

[quote]Asterisk 1.6.1.6, Copyright © 1999 - 2009 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer markster@digium.com
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type ‘core show warranty’ for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type ‘core show license’ for details.

Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl exist?)
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/var/run/asterisk.ctl does exist, although it’s zero bytes long.

and the log file has more bad news:

[quote][Sep 9 06:49:00] NOTICE[2702] cdr.c: CDR simple logging enabled.
[Sep 9 06:49:00] NOTICE[2702] loader.c: 185 modules will be loaded.
[Sep 9 06:49:00] NOTICE[2702] res_smdi.c: No SMDI interfaces are available to listen on, not starting SMDI listener.
[Sep 9 06:49:00] ERROR[2702] res_phoneprov.c: Unable to load config phoneprov.conf
[Sep 9 06:49:00] WARNING[2702] loader.c: Error loading module ‘codec_zap.so’: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/codec_zap.so: undefined symbol: ast_config_load
[Sep 9 06:49:00] WARNING[2702] loader.c: Module ‘codec_zap.so’ could not be loaded.
[Sep 9 06:49:00] WARNING[2702] loader.c: Error loading module ‘cdr_odbc.so’: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/cdr_odbc.so: undefined symbol: ast_config_load
[Sep 9 06:49:00] WARNING[2702] loader.c: Module ‘cdr_odbc.so’ could not be loaded.
[Sep 9 06:49:00] WARNING[2702] loader.c: Error loading module ‘app_lookupblacklist.so’: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/app_lookupblacklist.so: undefined symbol: ast_custom_function_register
[Sep 9 06:49:00] WARNING[2702] loader.c: Module ‘app_lookupblacklist.so’ could not be loaded.
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should I just uninstall everything and start again? I really don’t know where to start with this.

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don’t know how much it helps, but syslog has this to say:[quote]Sep 9 07:43:32 PhoneBox kernel: [ 35.614314] asterisk[2456] general protection ip:7f8ecbcf3c40 sp:7fffd42023d8 error:0 in libc-2.9.so[7f8ecbc73000+168000][/quote]

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Check if in /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/ there are 1.4 modules left.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni
www.marcobruni.net

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there are hundreds of files in there - all with .so extension. How do I know which ones are 1.4? I do see that some of them are not executable at the moment, don’t know if that makes any difference?

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OK, got past that one… I renamed /usr/lib/asterisk/modules and re-installed 1.6, Asterisk now wakes up.

In the meantime, of course, the GUI packed up, but hopefully I can live without it now that I’m finding my feet. Worse (and isn’t coincidence a bitch?) my Grandstream BT100 died at the same time. AAAAAAAAAARGH! Maybe I should just give up on this entire project and order some new POTS lines instead.