CE 2.6.1 - RC1 Release

You could install it yourself into a VM if you wanted. Thats what I did for the initial test plan.

Works pretty well actually. About the same as VMWare.

download vmware server, its free, and allows you to run the VM as a service, I havent tried the recent MS VPC, but in the past it seemed VMware was more resource friendly.

eww - 500s ;) have fun mucking with config files (if you like Cisco config files, you'll love this times 10)

aastra 480i's are a lot easier, and not much more expensive if you find one used, and the aastra xml suite now has CDP for auto-provisioning (you will like ;)

Ok I am going to ask the stupid question :)
what is MGCP I did a google search but did not find alot of it (well I did but did not undersatnd it).

I have 5 IP500's and 1 working with tb do i need to change anything, is this some kinda of firmware i need to install on the phone?

Sorry again.

IP500's are fine basic phones and are simple to setup. If you don't want to do anything funky with them they may good UA's for trix.

You only need to worry about MGCP if your Polycom's do not have SIP software.

Many of the Polycom IP500's out there where shipped OEM from Sylantro a manufacturer of large (read expensive) carrier class softswitches. These units can be identified by a dedicated call park and pickup softkey.

If you need to convert some, post a new thread and we will give you a hand.

The other tricky part is the IP500's use a earlier software load, they have insufficient memory to run any of the newer loads. We have had the best luck 2.12.0078.

Lastly, don't be intimidated by the XML config it is very simple and you can have a lot of fun with it. Do yourself a favor. Get a copy of the Polycom IP500 Administrators guide for 2.12 and Microsoft's free XML Notepad application. You can then play with the settings all day.

You can use WinSCP and open the file right on your windows desktop.

Have Fun

Kerry -

You want stuff like this in the bug tracker?

monitor is spelled wrong.

Everything worked fine with the exception that email stuff isn't working in this release e.g. voicemail > email etc.

I guess that I have finally run into the issues that others are having with Sendmail.

Do I report it as a bug or what or any suggestions?

Cheers
Garry

I have not been able to understand what to put in as a FQDN in a dynamic IP setting. At another location I have my external ip number followed by telepacific.net, e.g. 123.123.123.123.telepacific.net At home where I am testing this I have a dynamic ip with comcast and I do not know what to use in this case. Any advice?

I did fill out the SMTP info and no emails have come through yet.

No - I haven't done anything, just installed it on the same test PC as all the other incarnations that just worked out of the box.

I therefore assume that it has always been the "default" settings luckily as I know very little about Linux. Has something changed?

Do I now need to run setup-mail?

Cheers
Garry

It was changed in 2.6.1 Beta 1 (2.6.11). If you install the tbm-generalsettings it will install Postfix. Everything else should work fine. We are still discussing how to handle it all so ensure that upgrades dont break anything.

kerry, in your changelog, u state that for .13 that there is "Integration of more of the updated modules".

Is there a list of these?

I interested in Core update (gutty stuff that is beyond the development of the trixbox team e.g. asterisk, zaptel etc.)

Cheers for the update bud!

I just did a fresh install of 2.6.0.13. everything went well, except package manager.
I get an error box "The XML response that was returned from the server is invalid. Received: Cannot write to file (Cache/OutputYumAvailList.txt). Any help would be appreciated.

I tried to run yum and this is what I get, does it help. I installed 2.6.0.7 on same machine with no problem and then reinstalled 2.6.0.13 and had the same problem.

[trixbox1.localdomain ~]# yum
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

librpmbuild-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Please install a package which provides this module, or
verify that the module is installed correctly.

It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
current version of Python, which is:
2.4.3 (#1, Mar 14 2007, 18:51:08)
[GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)]

If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
the yum faq at:
http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq

PostFix to work in this version or alternatively get SendMail installed to get emails working?

This is the only problem that I am currently experiencing with this release so far.

Cheers
Garry

skykingoh THANKS!!
I am starting to see that i need to go up the polycom food chain, it is time for me to get newer phones for testing, I will get the ms notepad addin and give it a try thanks again.

Tested good this morning

Simple test:
date | sendmail -v email@domain.com

I sent it to my gmail account, got it immediately.

Where do I go to from here guys?

I am unable to get email working under PostFix whereas I have never had any issues with previous versions containing SendMail where it "just worked" - the only thing i did was to put my email address in /root/.forward in order to get the daily log file.

Given that this was a change because a lot of people had issues with SendMail and it was suggested that only gurus were able to succeed with SendMail - then are there any PostFix gurus available to help me get PostFix to work - I am a guru in neither.

Alternatively Kerry offered to provide a script to put SendMail back if there were issues with PostFix - is that available?

Garry

Make sure its not hitting a spam filter now.

Every ISO has the most current Asterisk and Zaptel on it that we are able to build and test successfully.

Not ready to raise any flags yet, however after seeing this post I want to at least get it on the table.

I have seen funky behavior even with the FreePBX reload bar in RC1.

Several configuration changes that should have worked where only resolved with a service asterisk reload.

This should not happen.

I will try to replicate the exact steps I took and see if I can recreate the problem.

Scott

I dug up another PC and did a fresh install with 2.6.0.7 (uses SendMail) and it just works (same home - same room - same router - same ISP). I do absolutely nothing at all in SendMail. I wouldn't know where to start anyway. So it is hard to suspect the ISP blocking only mail from PostFix.

Thanks for the links - I followed them and still no success.

The way I see it, I am either stuck at 2.6.0.7, or Kerry provides a script to install SendMail as possibly indicated back in the original SendMail/PostFix topic or I look at an alternative. It is extremely frustrating after following it from *@Home and it just working out of the box to now being at this point where something that has just never been an issue now to all intentions prevents me using it.

I now feel for those many other people who seemed to have problems with SendMail prior to the change.

Garry

I had tried the script and got nowhere.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please enter the FQDN of this trixbox system.
This is the Domain name that the internet knows your system as.
If you do not have an FQDN use a dynamic DNS service to get one.
FQDN: palamo.com.au

Enter the smart relay host, if you do not need one, leave this blank
Smart Host:
rewriting main.cf to masquerade as palamo.com.au ...

Ignoring Smart host.
postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system

Done.
[carindalepbx1.localdomain ~]#
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers
Garry

the box

Cheers
Garry

In regards to below - has this been seen by others and do I need to enter a bug report on it?
I do a lot of changes through onfig edit on the custom files and it definitely doesn't do a reload even though it indicates it has.

"It seems on my installation that when you use the Configuration Editor then doing an Update followed by a re-read configs is not doing a reload.

The only way is to go into FreePBX - update something and click the orange bar."

Cheers
Garry

Yes - it comes as quite a surprise when the changes you have effected don't seem to be reflected on the box that you think you are working on.

Happened to me just the other day.

Cheers
Garry

Edit /etc/amportal.conf and change the line that says:

SERVERINTITLE=false

to

SERVERINTITLE=true

We should have the next beta out tomorrow. We are having some issues with the script to run on the appliance hardware.

There seems to be something wrong with the sataraid install mode. I've tried it on 3 different motherboards now with various settings and it fails every time. Anaconda throws up python script errors and finally says md0 could not be run.

Wish I could provide more, but i've run out of time and the box I was testing on has to now be pressed into service otherwise.

2.6.0.7 worked perfectly in all scenarios, btw.