FreePBX 17 Restore from FreePBX 15 - Undefined array key "host"

Open Source Modules Backup and Restore
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Hello all,

I am investigating FreePBX17 on a test server running the recommended Debian 12 OS and using the github script to install. After installation, I am restoring a full backup from our production FreePBX15 CentOS machine.

After restore, I can login to the web UI and do typical tasks after disabling some commercial modules. The only error I am left with happens as a banner on the web UI and a console message when interacting with fwconsole, e.g,:

# fwconsole reload
Reload started
^ "Undefined array key "host""

I’m unable to find the message in the log files, and I’m not sure where the ‘^’ is being emitted from. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Issues · FreePBX/issue-tracker · GitHub

Submit an issue. FreePBX17 is so new that there will be bugs to work out.

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Please try with below command which will print the stack trace to find the more detail about who is generating the error and raise the issue at github.

fwconsole reload -v
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I suggest an incremental upgrade - spin up a VM with FreePBX 16, do the restore to that, and if everything checks out, do a backup on FreePBX 16 and then a restore to your test server.

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Thank you.

I tried enabling the verbose mode and there is no additional information printed. Does the verbose mode by default log to a file instead of the console?

pbx_reload_undefined_host

I will file an issue, but I hate to report without any information that is useful to debug.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I will give this a try and hopefully it will lead to something that has more detail on why the direct upgrade is failing.