Free PBX will not update config files in trixbox 2.0- SOLVED

FreePBX Installation / Upgrade
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I recently upgraded my asterisk version, back in March, to 1.2.17. I updated freePBX at the same time. I only verified everything operational (making calls, sound, etc.) after making the update. Now over a month later, I go to add an extension and make changes to my dial plan and I find that changes in Free PBX are saved in the database, but not in the conf files.

I had also changed my manager and database user passwords per the instructions over a month ago as well.

troubleshooting:
I am able to connect to mysql with the passwords in the conf files.

I tried to run the free PBX update again with freshly downloaded files, and get these results: (2.2.1)

Checking for PEAR DB…OK
Checking for PEAR Console::Getopt…OK
Running module install.php and install.sql scripts
Checking for /etc/amportal.conf…OK
Reading /etc/amportal.conf…OK
Reading /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf…OK
Connecting to database…FAILED
[FATAL] Cannot connect to database
Generating AMP configs…OK
Restarting Flash Operator Panel…OK

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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this has been an issue in the past because of different parsers embedded in retrieve_conf. It is resolved (hopefully) going forward in 2.3 where retrieve_conf uses the same included parser as the rest.

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Keep the passwords below a certain number of characters (10) and only alpha-numeric to be safe. Once I changed my password to something much more hackable, I was once again able to perform updates. I literally had to go back and resubmit all data on each screen in freepbx, to ensure nothing was missing in the conf files.

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