sorry for the lack of infos and thanks for your replies. i came into my predecessor’s inheritance and i am everything but not yet familar with this thing.
i try to give more info:
it is obviously a “trixbox CE 2.8.0” based on a CentOS 5.5
mysql is running and functional (passwords are correct. when i change passwords, the error message reads “no connection”)
there is plenty of space left on every mount point
the system worked quite well before i updated the machine with yum. the framework seems to work still good, but as soon as i enter the backend of PBX, it quits with the fatal error. probably there was a problem while updating mysql-tables, a ALTER TABLE command might not have worked. but i do not find a log file where i could find out WHICH tables are affected, as the error msg does not tell
thanks again (also for hints where i could find some more info regarding the error)