Asterisk fails to load on Debian 11 as before:

[EMG70]

Expected behavior and actual behavior:

Full installation with Freepbx installed and enabled

Steps to reproduce the problem:

Retried several times.

IIAB version, OS version, hardware details:

Please run the iiab-diagnostics command, to generate a URL summarizing your IIAB configuration, for volunteers seeking to help you: (Include that short URL here, Thanks!)

http://sprunge.us/4K56PQ?en

[holta]

Possibly IIAB's Asterisk patch for Raspberry Pi is no longer necessary? (Or needs a quick fix?)

Certainly FreePBX 17 pre-releases will run on Debian 12 very shortly — according to these recent announcements:

• Will FreePBX 17 support PHP 8 ? [Apparently. This should work with Asterisk 21?] #3556

[holta]

Possibly IIAB's Asterisk patch for Raspberry Pi is no longer necessary? (Or needs a quick fix?)

Here's install_prereq.diff used with when: asterisk_rpi_patch that needs refining (or replacing?)

iiab/roles/pbx/files/install_prereq.diff

Lines 1 to 16 in acf125f

	--- install_prereq.orig 2023-04-01 01:41:56.859545082 -0500
	+++ install_prereq 2023-04-01 01:44:28.744269701 -0500
	@@ -193,8 +193,13 @@
	tocheck="${tocheck} ^${pack}$ ~P^${pack}$"
	done
	pkgs=$(aptitude -F '%c %p' search ${tocheck} 2>/dev/null | awk '/^p/{print $2}')
	+ arch=$(uname -m)
	if [ ${#pkgs} -ne 0 ]; then
	- echo $pkgs | sed -r -e "s/ ?[^ :]+:i386//g"
	+ if [ "$arch" = "x86_64" ]; then
	+ echo $pkgs | sed -r -e "s/ ?[^ :]+:i386//g"
	+ elif [ "$arch" = "aarch64" ]; then
	+ echo $pkgs | sed -r -e "s/ ?[^ :]+:armhf//g"
	+ fi
	fi
	}

[holta]

Workaround for Debian 11 on non-RPi for now:

Set asterisk_rpi_patch: False in /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml

[EMG70]

Installed & Tested OK with asterisk_rpi_patch :False

[holta]

It appears roles/pbx/files/intall_prereq.diff is no longer relevant, as a result of...

install_prereq: Fix dependency install on aarch64.
Fixes dependency solutions in install_prereq for Debian aarch64
platforms. install_prereq was attempting to forcibly install 32-bit
armhf packages due to the aptitude search for dependencies.

...merged on 2023-08-14 here: asterisk/asterisk@6a55551

• install_prereq: Fix dependency install on aarch64. asterisk/asterisk#38
• https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commits/master/contrib/scripts/install_prereq

...and now part of Asterisk 20 and 21, resolving the original issue:

• [Bug]: contrib/scripts/install_prereq tries to install armhf packages on aarch64 Debian platforms asterisk/asterisk#37

[holta]

Should now be resolved by:

• PR Set asterisk_rpi_patch: False & mandate MySQL / MariaDB [as we wait for FreePBX 17 pre-releases to support Asterisk 21, which was released 2023-10-18] #3674

Thanks @EMG70 for the bug report!