FreePBX 17 Install on Debian 12 (kernel 6.1.0-25-amd64) Fails with --dahdi switch

FreePBX Installation / Upgrade
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I am repurposing a pair of Dell PowerEdge R330 servers with Sangoma A102 telephony cards which hosted FreePBX 14 for 6 years in a primary/warm spare configuration.

I started with the old warm spare, and that is now in production and working fine.

Yesterday (10 days later) I attempted the same on the old primary server. FreePBX 17 appeared to install, but then I was getting the Apache2 default page, and the directory /var/www/html had only a single file and no other directories.

Eventually, I tried running the install script without the --dahdi switch, and then it worked, and I could access the FreePBX GUI.

Then I went back and ran the script with the --dahdi-only switch which also appeared to run.

However, DHADI Config is missing from the FreePBX Connectivity menu.

Running ‘wanrouter hwprobe’ on the production server returns good output:

Wanpipe Hardware Probe Info
1 . AFT-A102-SH : SLOT=4 : BUS=2 : IRQ=255 : CPU=A : PORT=1 : HWEC=64 : V=40
2 . AFT-A102-SH : SLOT=4 : BUS=2 : IRQ=255 : CPU=A : PORT=2 : HWEC=64 : V=40

Sangoma Card Count: A101-2=1

But not on the second server:

wanrouter: Wanpipe Module: /lib/modules/6.1.0-25-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wan/sdladrv not found !!!
WANPIPE drivers must be compiled as modules
Check kernel configuration in /usr/src/linux/.config:
CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER=m
CONFIG_VENDOR_SANGOMA=m

The servers have the exact same model of Sangoma card installed. The only difference between the two servers is that the kernel on the production server is 6.1.0-23-amd64 but on the problem server it is 6.1.0-25-amd64.

The install log indicated “Ensure you are running a DAHDI supported Kernel. Current latest supported kernel version is 6.1.0-25.” so it should have worked.

Is there a way to install DAHDI support without the FreePBX 17 install script?

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The FreePBX “Install on Debian 12” instructions include a section on DAHDI Support. I ran the provided command for the “latest supported wanpipe” which returned: 6.1.0-23.

I assume this means that Debian 12 with kernel 6.1.0-23 is the most recent supported OS. On that basis, I reverted my system to kernel 6.1.0.22 which is the version on my USB install media. Then I ran the FreePBX install script with the --dahdi-only argument. This also appeared to run, but DAHDI support was not installed and DAHDI Config is not present in the Connectivity menu.

root@freepbx2:/etc/wanpipe# wanrouter version

WANPIPE Release: 7.0.38

root@freepbx2:/etc/wanpipe# wanrouter start

ERROR: Wanpipe configuration file not found:
/etc/wanpipe/wanpipe1.conf

root@freepbx2:/# wanrouter summary

No Wanpipe configuration files found in /etc/wanpip

So, it does appear that the wanpipe component is absent, but I don’t know why.

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Hi @buckadmin,We have pushed the latest wanpipe packages to the repo to support the latest kernel version(6.1.0-25), so could you give it another try?

You can configure the Sangoma card using “wancfg_dahdi” command on cli.

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I ran wancfg_dahdi as root and it returned this output:

########################################################################

Sangoma Wanpipe

Dahdi/Zaptel/SMG/TDMAPI/BOOT Configuration Script

v2.51

Sangoma Technologies Inc.

Copyright(c) 2016.

########################################################################

Warning: Dahdi modules not found: Wanpipe not build for DAHDI
Error: Dahdi and/or Zaptel modules not found! Please install DAHDI and compile Wanpipe for DAHDI!

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FreePBX 17.0.19.11 is installed and activated on the machine but as I stated, the --dahdi and dahdi-only arguments failed to install DAHDI from the script.

Yesterday, I did a bare metal reinstall of the system with Debian 12 kernel 6.1.0-23-amd64 which is the same build as on our production server. Everything is identical to the production server and I even took the A102 card from that server, but the script install still failed.

What else can I try?

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@buckadmin
have you checked in a Debian hardware list DAHDI is present or not?
lshw

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-bash: lshw: command not found

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mybad lspci

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The card is seen in hardware even though it is misidentified. It is not an analog card. Running lspci on the production server produces the same output.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x8) (rev 07)
00:01.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x4) (rev 07)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Thermal Subsystem (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31)
00:16.1 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #2 (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1d.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #11 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C236 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)
02:04.0 Network controller: Sangoma Technologies Corp. A200/Remora FXO/FXS Analog AFT card
04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
06:00.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7758 PCIe Switch [PS]
07:00.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7758 PCIe Switch [PS]
08:00.0 PCI bridge: Renesas Technology Corp. SH7758 PCIe-PCI Bridge [PPB]
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. G200eR2 (rev 01)

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what is says Dahdi Hardware?
dahdi_hardware

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Same as on the production server: dahdi_hardware

pci:0000:02:04.0 wanpipe- 1923:0040 Sangoma Technologies Corp. A200/Remora FXO/FXS Analog AFT card

It is actually a Sangoma A102 dual-port PRI card.

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If you thinking this is wrong. Try to re-install one more time DAHDI driver with new Debian kernel.
https://support.digium.com/s/article/Installing-DAHDI
https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/dahdi-linux/

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Hi @buckadmin Can you run the installation script one more time with --dahdionly then try to configure the card. Also make sure your system’s kernel version is latest (6.1.0-25).

wget https://github.com/FreePBX/sng_freepbx_debian_install/raw/master/sng_freepbx_debian_install.sh -O /tmp/sng_freepbx_debian_install.sh
bash /tmp/sng_freepbx_debian_install.sh --dahdi-only
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When I ran the command from the FreePBX script page yesterday it indicated wanpipe was only supported on 6.1.0.23.

apt-cache search wanpipe | grep -E “^kmod-wanpipe-[0-9]” | awk ‘{print $1}’ | awk -F’-’ ‘{print $3"-"$4}’ | sort -n | tail -1

Therefore, I downgraded the system to 6.1.0-23-amd64. If I have to upgrade to 6.1.0.25 I will need some time to do that, but since the production server is on 6.1.0.23, shouldn’t that work?

So, I ran the script again with the dahdi-only argument and it appeared to run (same as before).

Should I try to run wancfg_dahdi now?

root@freepbx2:/tmp# bash /tmp/sng_freepbx_debian_install.sh --dahdi-only
2024-09-23 08:44:57 - Performing version check…
Perfect! You’re already running the latest version.
2024-09-23 08:44:57 - Starting installation.
2024-09-23 08:44:57 - Starting FreePBX 17 installation process for freepbx2 Linux freepbx2 6.1.0-23-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.99-1 (2024-07-15) x86_64 GNU/Linux
2024-09-23 08:44:57 - Please refer to the /var/log/pbx/freepbx17-install-2024.09.23-08.44.57.log to know the process…
2024-09-23 08:44:57 - Making sure installation is sane
2024-09-23 08:45:07 - Setting up default configuration
2024-09-23 08:45:08 - Setting up repositories
2024-09-23 08:45:24 - Setting up Sangoma repository
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - You are installing FreePBX 17 on kernel 6.1.0-23.
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - Please note that if you have plan to use DAHDI then:
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - Ensure that you either choose DAHDI option so script will configure DAHDI
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - OR
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - Ensure you are running a DAHDI supported Kernel. Current latest supported kernel version is 6.1.0-25.
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - Making sure we allow only proper kernel upgrade and version installation
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - Creating kernel check script to allow proper kernel upgrades
2024-09-23 08:45:25 - Updating repository
2024-09-23 08:45:33 - Installing required packages
2024-09-23 08:45:35 - Installing nodejs …
2024-09-23 08:45:35 - nodejs failed to install …
2024-09-23 08:45:35 - Exiting the installation process as dependent nodejs failed to install …
2024-09-23 08:45:35 - Exiting script
2024-09-23 08:45:39 - Installing DAHDI card support…
2024-09-23 08:45:39 - Installing dahdi-linux-kmod-6.1.0-23 …
2024-09-23 08:45:43 - dahdi-linux-kmod-6.1.0-23 installed successfully…
2024-09-23 08:45:43 - Installing kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 …
2024-09-23 08:45:43 - Exiting script

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I wanted to upload the install log file but the widget didn’t like the format. However, I think I may have spotted the problem. These lines are near the end of the file:

2024-09-23 08:45:43 - Installing kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 …
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 144683 (apt)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?
2024-09-23 08:45:43 - Exiting script

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I reviewed the install log from the production server and found the same step in the script execution. In that case it was the full installation with the --dahdi argument. You can see from the snippet included below what should have happened. So, is this a bug?

2024-08-27 12:43:49 - Installing kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 …
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 812 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,794 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.freepbx.org/freepbx17-prod bookworm/main amd64 kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 amd64 7.0.38-2.sng12 [812 kB]
Fetched 812 kB in 1s (1,265 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23.
(Reading database …
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(Reading database … 92611 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23_7.0.38-2.sng12_amd64.deb …
Unpacking kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 (7.0.38-2.sng12) …
Setting up kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 (7.0.38-2.sng12) …
2024-08-27 12:43:52 - kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 installed successfully…

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Hi @buckadmin It seems the kmod-wanpipe package failed to install on your system. Could you please try installing it manually using the command below?thanks

apt install kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23
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Here is the output:

root@freepbx2:~# apt install kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
kmod-wanpipe-6.1.0-23 is already the newest version (7.0.38-2.sng12).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@freepbx2:~#

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