Upgrading the FreePBX firmware

JaredBusch

The official wiki on this subject is located here.

I always have a backup prior to doing this level of update!

In addition to the normal system updates you get with the built in package manager (yum) and the module updates in Module Admin, FreePBX 13 also has a firmware version that needs updated.

When you first install FreePBX, this is automatically updated to the current firmware level. Unfortunately they tie the ability to update this in any type of easy form to their paid SysAdmin Pro module.

You can see what your current firmware version is two ways. In the GUI, navigate to Admin -> System Admin.
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From the command line, you can execute cat /etc/schmooze/pbx-version.

[root@fpbx ~]# cat /etc/schmooze/pbx-version
10.13.66-17

If you have the SysAdmin Pro module, you can go to Admin -> System Admin -> Updates and perform updates.
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For those of you without the SysAdmin Pro module, upgrading is a fairly simple, but also slightly annoying process.

Find out if there is even an update for your version. You can find that by checking the FreePBX Release Notes page. At the time of this writing, version 10.13.66-19 is current.

Assuming there is an update, sign in to your PBX via SSH and download all of the updates from your installed version to current. The full URL for each download is found on this FreePBX wiki page.

In my current example, I am on 17 and I need to get to 19.

First I like to keep these scripts in their own folder

mkdir updatescripts
cd updatescripts
wget https://upgrades.freepbxdistro.org/stable/10.13.66/upgrade-10.13.66-18.sh
wget https://upgrades.freepbxdistro.org/stable/10.13.66/upgrade-10.13.66-19.sh

Now you need to make the scripts executable.

chmod +x *.sh

Finally you can install them.
You must install each one in order and do any followup tasks that are displayed.

[root@fpbx updatescripts]# /root/updatescripts/upgrade-10.13.66-18.sh
<snip lots>
Sun Apr  2 16:21:56 CDT 2017 UPGRADE 100% COMPLETED
Unlocked.
REBOOT YOUR BOX NOW FOR DAHDI CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT
If you would like to change your Asterisk release version to
11 or 13 you can do so by typing asterisk-version-switch
from the linux CLI at anytime

Here is the full output for anyone curious.

[root@fpbx updatescripts]# /root/updatescripts/upgrade-10.13.66-18.sh
Check to make sure this is a FreePBX Distro system before executing
This appears to be a FreePBX Distro system as it has a Distro Version of 10.13.66-17

Your FreePBX Distro System is being upgraded to 10.13.66-18. Please standby...


STAGE 1 STARTING - GUI Modules

Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, kmod
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
No Packages marked for Update

 Upgrade All FreePBX GUI Modules

trying to run as user asterisk:

[AMPSBIN] already set to [/usr/sbin]

Taking too long? Customize the chown command, See http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/FreePBX+Chown+Conf
Setting Permissions...
        Collecting Files...Done
 55501/55501 [============================] 100%
Finished setting permissions
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/lib/node_modules/npm-cache/node_modules/tar-fs/node_modules/.bin/mkdirp which points to a file that no longer exists
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/lib/node_modules/npm-cache/node_modules/fstream/node_modules/.bin/mkdirp which points to a file that no longer exists
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/lib/node_modules/npm-cache/node_modules/.bin/which which points to a file that no longer exists
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/lib/node_modules/npm-cache/node_modules/.bin/shjs which points to a file that no longer exists
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/lib/node_modules/npm-cache/node_modules/.bin/rimraf which points to a file that no longer exists
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/lib/node_modules/npm-cache/node_modules/nomnom/node_modules/chalk/node_modules/.bin/strip-ansi which points to a file that no longer exists
Removing dangling symlink /home/asterisk/.node/bin/npm-cache which points to a file that no longer exists
No repos specified, using: [standard,commercial] from last GUI settings

Up to date.
Installing: rmsadmin
Downloading & Installing rmsadmin...
Starting rmsadmin download..
Processing rmsadmin
Downloading...
 57322/57322 [============================] 100%
Finished downloading
Extracting...Done
Module rmsadmin successfully downloaded
Installing rmsadmin module
Generating CSS...Done
Module rmsadmin successfully installed
Updating Hooks...Done

Done. All modules installed.
Updating Hooks...Done
Taking too long? Customize the chown command, See http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/FreePBX+Chown+Conf
Setting Permissions...
        Collecting Files...Done
 55536/55536 [============================] 100%
Finished setting permissions
Reloading FreePBX
Error(s) have occured, the following is the retrieve_conf output:
exit: 1
Whoops\Exception\ErrorException: exec(): Unable to fork [grep '#include' /etc/asterisk/*.conf | sed 's/;.*//; s/#include//'] in file /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf on line 1108
Stack trace:
  1. Whoops\Exception\ErrorException->() /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf:1108
  2. Whoops\Run->handleError() :0
  3. exec() /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf:1108
No repos specified, using: [standard,commercial] from last GUI settings

Up to date.
All modules up to date.
Updating Hooks...Done
Taking too long? Customize the chown command, See http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/FreePBX+Chown+Conf
Setting Permissions...
        Collecting Files...Done
 55537/55537 [============================] 100%
Finished setting permissions
Reloading FreePBX
Successfully reloaded

STAGE 1 COMPLETED - GUI Modules - Moving to Stage 2


STAGE 2 STARTING - RPMs


 Replace repos with only FreePBX Distro since some people have added other repos which can break updates


Moving to Next Step

 Update Asterisk RPMs
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, kmod
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
base                                                                                                     | 2.0 kB     00:00
extras                                                                                                   | 1.3 kB     00:00
pbx                                                                                                      | 2.9 kB     00:00
schmooze-commercial                                                                                      | 2.9 kB     00:00
updates                                                                                                  | 1.3 kB     00:00
No Packages marked for Update
Taking too long? Customize the chown command, See http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/FreePBX+Chown+Conf
Setting Permissions...
        Collecting Files...Done
 55538/55538 [============================] 100%
Finished setting permissions

Moving to Next Step

 Update all misc 6.6 RPM's
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, kmod
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
No Packages marked for Update

Moving to Next Step


STAGE 2 COMPLETED - RPM's - Moving to Stage 3

STAGE 3 STARTING - Misc Items


Moving to Next Step


Moving to Next Step


STAGE 3 COMPLETED - Misc Items - Moving to Stage 4




STAGE 4 STARTING - Clean Up

 updatedb for locate command

 Restart incron to be safe


STAGE 4 COMPLETED - Clean Up - Moving to Stage 5




STAGE 5 STARTING - Final Verifications


STAGE 5 COMPLETED - Final Verifications - Moving to Stage 6



Sun Apr  2 16:21:56 CDT 2017 UPGRADE 100% COMPLETED
Unlocked.
REBOOT YOUR BOX NOW FOR DAHDI CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT
If you would like to change your Asterisk release version to
11 or 13 you can do so by typing asterisk-version-switch
from the linux CLI at anytime

[root@fpbx updatescripts]#

Now reboot the system because it says you need to. I Always perform the reboot from within the GUI with FreePBX (or any applicaiton really) because, while I know it is simple to reboot from the CLI with a shutdown -r now, I have no idea what other tasks the GUI shutdown process handles.

And there we go, I am now on version 18.
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Finally, if you are behind and needing to perform multiple updates at once, I recommend waiting a full 5 minutes in between because otherwise, your reboots will set the Responsive firewall into Safe mode.

Part of the FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

JaredBusch

Note, one of the steps of this process will run a yum update, but as new firmware here comes out slower than updates to various modules, I do not rely on this process to perform those.

Moving to Next Step

 Update all misc 6.6 RPM's
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, kmod
Setting up Update Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package freepbx.noarch 0:13.0.191.4-1.shmz65.1.54 will be updated
---> Package freepbx.noarch 0:13.0.191.4-1.shmz65.1.55 will be an update
---> Package iSymphonyServerV3-fpbx.noarch 0:3.4.0.21-1 will be updated
---> Package iSymphonyServerV3-fpbx.noarch 0:3.4.1.44-1 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

scottalanmiller

Rum a yum huh?

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

Rum a yum huh?

Kinda like rummy bears?

art_of_shred

@travisdh1 said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

Rum a yum huh?

Kinda like rummy bears?

Yeah, Jared's secretly a yum runner.

JaredBusch

@JaredBusch said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

/root/updatescripts/upgrade-10.13.66-18.sh

I just setup a new FreePBX 13 install on Vultr and it start on firmware version 17.

After running the upgrade to 18 the Process Management module was installed and all other modules were upgraded.

There were a large number of modules in error prior to running this upgrade on the new install.

EddieJennings

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Alex Sage

@JaredBusch do you have to reboot between updates?

I am using System Admin to do updates, and it doing them one after another, without a reboot.

JaredBusch

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@JaredBusch do you have to reboot between updates?

I am using System Admin to do updates, and it doing them one after another, without a reboot.

Do you have to reboot? No.

I reboot, because I want all things applied. including the system being booted to an updated kernel from the yum update that it does.

WLS-ITGuy

@JaredBusch, are you running the new distro from Sangoma yet?

scottalanmiller

@wls-itguy said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@JaredBusch, are you running the new distro from Sangoma yet?

We are running it in production, have been since release day. We actually had the final Release Candidate in production, we were that anxious.

WLS-ITGuy

@scottalanmiller Scott, I don't see an upgrade option through my SysAdmin page. Did you upgrade via CLI?

scottalanmiller

@wls-itguy said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller Scott, I don't see an upgrade option through my SysAdmin page. Did you upgrade via CLI?

Upgrade from what? The RC just updated on its own.

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

brianlittlejohn

They don't have a script yet to go from 13 to 14.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

We didn't upgrade from 13, we did a clean slate build.

Alex Sage

@wls-itguy https://mangolassi.it/topic/14259/what-s-the-best-way-to-migrate-to-freepbx-14/6

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

We didn't upgrade from 13, we did a clean slate build.

So was this for a new install, or for a previous customer? If previous, how did you migrate all of your settings over?

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

We didn't upgrade from 13, we did a clean slate build.

So was this for a new install, or for a previous customer? If previous, how did you migrate all of your settings over?

We did it on beta, so it was for internal. Wouldn't do that to outside customers.

PBX are really easy to migrate by hand, no need to bring cruft over. IF you have hundreds of users and complex IVRs, yeah that can be a pain. For a typical SMB, how long does a manual migration take, an hour? And if you are cleaning up craft as you go, pruning extensions, it can be a break even on time.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@dashrender said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@aaronstuder said in Upgrading the FreePBX firmware:

@scottalanmiller I assume @WLS-ITGuy means from FreePBX 13

We didn't upgrade from 13, we did a clean slate build.

So was this for a new install, or for a previous customer? If previous, how did you migrate all of your settings over?

We did it on beta, so it was for internal. Wouldn't do that to outside customers.

PBX are really easy to migrate by hand, no need to bring cruft over. IF you have hundreds of users and complex IVRs, yeah that can be a pain. For a typical SMB, how long does a manual migration take, an hour? And if you are cleaning up craft as you go, pruning extensions, it can be a break even on time.

Bullshit. Again you have no perspective.

An hour to migrate an entire PBX? Voicemail passwords? Extensions and secrets?

Bull fucking shit.