2.6.0 - First Impressions
Submitted by GSnover on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 11:59am.
Machine #1 - HP/Compaq Laptop with Core-2 Duo and 2 Gigs RAM
1) FAST - Loads Quick!
2) acpi=off in grub.conf - checked cat /proc/interrupts and it only showed 1 processor - removed the acpi=off and rebooted, and then two showed - weird.
Mainly just loaded to see what was there - real testing on the next two machines:
Machine #2 - Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 2 Quad-Core Xeon's and 8 Gigs of RAM
1) FAST - This is the fastest loading Trixbox ever.
2) PAE - Hmmm...loading on a machine that has 8 GIG's of RAM, the PAE kernel was selected - unfortunately, all the modules are created against the Non-PAE kernel, and so on the first re-boot after the load it loaded the PAE kernel (cool!) and then proceeded to fail loading Zaptel (not cool) - it threw so many errors that I thought the PAE was causing trouble, so I rebooted, reinstalled, and then on the first boot, caught it and picked the non-PAE kernel and everything seemed to be fine - a quick yum remove kernel-PAE got rid of it and fixed grub.conf although now I can only use less than 4 gigs of my RAM.
A little explanation here - this is a machine for a Data Center used for Disaster Recovery, so it's going to have a LOT of phones attached - It's a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with two Quad-Core Xeon's and 8 Gigabytes of RAM and 6 250-Gigabyte SATA Drives in a RAID-10 array with two hot spares on a PERC 6i Integrated with an Intel PCI-Express 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC - it's really probably overkill for what it's doing, but if you have ever priced Dell servers, you know that sometimes it's cheaper to put MORE into a machine - you cross a price-break point and the discount increases - case in point, with 4 Gigs and 2 Dual Core Xeon's I was over $4,000.00 - switch to the Quad Cores and up the RAM to 8 Gig's and the price drops to $3,300 - not too shabby!
3) zttest gives me a 99.952890% accuracy - good.
3) FreePBX Skinned - Not my favorite - oh well, http://ip-of-box/admin is still available and it only looks a little weird.
4) Announcements at the top of Maint: trixbox CE 2.6 beta 1 released for testing - That seems a little weird considering that this is 2.6.0 released - probably an oversight.
Overall, VERY POSITIVE on this box - It's a pretty new machine, and I tried loading 2.2.12 and 2.4.2 on it and had problems with both - 2.6.0 found ALL the hardware with nary a peep of complaint - going to have to stress-test this, but so far so good.
Machine #3 - Dell PowerEdge SC-440 with a Dual Core Pentium + 1 Gig of RAM
1) Just as fast as the other machine to load.
2) sataraid worked just like it should.
3) zttest of 99.954930% - good.
4) Finds the onboard NIC just like it should - this is a time saver.
5) yum update - Only 10, and only one of them is a Trixbox update - the rest are CentOS updates, and they seem harmless.
VERY POSITIVE for this box as well - This looks like the new standard bearer, and I am not surprised that Kerry took the older versions off of the Download page (although they are still available - don't get excited!) - I am putting this on our Office Production Machine (17 phones hanging off a Fractional PRI with Polycom's) and will pound on it for a week and report back - but so far, it looks GREAT.
Greg
 
Great news
Sat, 03/01/2008 - 12:15pm
I plan on installing and putting this release through its paces this afternoon or tomorrow.
I will do a clean install on a dual Xeon 2.4 (400FSB) with 2GB or ECC RAM. This particiulat machine has an Adaptec SCSI controller. Will be interesting to see if it is probed properly.
Once it is up I will test with the Cisco 7961G, SNOM 360 and Polycom 501 + x-lite, Trunking will be SIP to a Cisco router.
I am going to start a feature test plan that allows you to test of all the base features. I will share it as soon as I can.
More to follow.
Scott
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Scott
aka "Skyking"
 
Yes, we are working on one of those also - In the field Gotcha's
Sat, 03/01/2008 - 12:22pm
kind of suck, and we had a few with 2.4 - but so far, it looks great.
Greg
 
Machine #4 - PowerEdge 1800 with Hyper-Threader Xeon
Sun, 03/02/2008 - 9:02pm
and 2-Gig's of RAM and a Hardware RAID-5 on a Dell (Adaptec) CERC-6 SATA RAID Controller.
1) Formatted slow and loaded slow - maybe the DVD-ROM in this machine, maybe the Adaptec RAID controller.
2) Runs fast though.
3) help-trixbox and passwd-maint did not get flagged as executable - I will post this in the bug tracker.
4) acpi=off on this box means it only shows one processor - removed it from grub.conf and rebooted and now the hyper-threading is working.
5) Using a Digium TE110p with a fractional PRI - Oslec still doesn't sound good - I am going to remove Oslec and install MG2 + Aggressive from source.
6) Ok - Installed Zaptel with MG2 + Aggressive and now it sounds much better - weird how everyone but me seems to get great results with Oslec.
7) Installed SugarCRM and moved our data over to the box - I am going to update the Wiki with instructions for 5.0b - the current version.
8) Ok - That's a weird bug - when you install HUDLite Server and TBM-Hudadmin, when you go to http://trixbox/maint, you now go to the HUDLite config panel - you can click on the System Status tab, but I just tried this on two boxes - it did it on both of them - I will look at the /maint site and see what changed.
I'm going to go work on that bug - more in a minute.
Greg
 
Stranger and Stranger...
Sun, 03/02/2008 - 9:23pm
If you install Hudlite Server and TBM-Hudadmin, the /maint interface goes straight there - also, the hover-over drop-downs for System and Settings stop working - you can click on them and then get to there sub-options, but the hover-over drop-down quits working.
Even stranger still, I installed phpMyAdmin and it became the /maint homepage on that machine - same thing with the System and Settings tab - while it's installed, they don't work right - as soon as you remove it, they come back.
Looks like the modules that attach themselves to the Menu screw up the menu - I will post this in the Bug tracker.
Greg
 
Well, these bugs have already been posted in the Bug Tracker...
Sun, 03/02/2008 - 9:26pm
So, onward and upward.
Greg
 
DO NOT INSTALL 2.6!!! We
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:08am
DO NOT INSTALL 2.6!!! We will have 2.6.1 today to address all issues. Something borked bad in the build script.
 
Roger That!
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:01pm
2 of the machines were Test machines - the third can be backed up and overwritten.
Greg
 
As soon as I can figure out
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:05pm
As soon as I can figure out where to put it, I am going to post a document that I am working on that will be a test plan for all releases and would appreciate some feedback on it.
 
Put it in the wiki so it can
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:07pm
Put it in the wiki so it can evolve as people run into new show stoppers.
 
oops....
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:21pm
I installed 2.6.0, albeit on a box running in my home, so no major issue, but is 2.6.1 going to be a seemless upgrade or am i going to need to backup & reinstall?
-Andy
 
one more thing....
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:23pm
My sap-trixbox package (snom template & autoprovisioning enhancements) does NOT work on the 2.6 release, will be updating my package soon, but just wanted to point this out in case anyone thought about installing it on this version. stay tuned kids!
-Andy
 
http://www.trixbox.org/wiki/t
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:23pm
http://www.trixbox.org/wiki/trixbox-ce-release-test-plan
A lot of stuff broke in 2.6.0, I would recommend a clean install at this point.
 
OSLEC
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 6:02pm
Since you appear to have alot of echo cancellation experience, I want to ask a question about removing OSLEC. We have a Rhino EC card and TB 2.4 installed. The 2.4 release automatically installs OSLEC. I am getting some odd noises at times and I am also having some echo issues when using X-Lite. My thought is that it is caused by having both OSLEC and Rhino doing EC. Does your experience with EC support this idea. If so, what is the best way to remove OSLEC and just use the Rhino EC?
 
hey CHarding, i
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:22pm
hey CHarding, i think:
amportal stop
service zaptel stop
service oslec stop
service zaptel start
amportal start
might do it
the ec should be on by default in the rhino driver, not sure tho, not much experience on rhino,. you might want to start up a new topic on this, James from rhino will probly see it.
 
At this time we recommend
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:28pm
At this time we recommend staying with 2.4 that said zaptel in theory manages this an dives HWEC priority over software. so the presence of HWEC trumps OSLEC. Again at this time we do NOT recommend a push to 2.6.x and we will push out an official support notice once the build is stable .
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Sound problem
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 9:36pm
I installed with vmware, works fine for loading shows no error, after configure my did the receiving call sound is very bad can't understand, any suggestion for that...
thanks...
 
Very good but ...
Tue, 03/11/2008 - 2:05am
hi all,
I'm new trixbox user.
all the options are rappide and easy to set up. (Asterisk Freepbx, web interface)
Found problem:
Hudlite : I connect myself well to the HUD server with the "password". When I am in my HUDlite interface it is impossible for me to pass a call.The options voicemail and hangup are grayed. I do not see the call received or passed of the other stations. why ???
Meetme : how its work? Is necessary it to install the module in freepbx?
Language : Do you want a translation in French of trixbox? (My English is horrible your French too) Think of the end-users (voicemail: "New message 1 in mailbox" becomes "Nouveau message 1 dans la boitemail" )
good work.
 
HUDlite has lots of known
Tue, 03/11/2008 - 8:39am
HUDlite has lots of known issues right now and we are waiting on a new version due out at the beginning of summer.
Meetme - instructions in the wiki
Lanquage - yes we need translations but are not ready for that right now
 
MP3 working in 2.6?
Fri, 03/14/2008 - 7:27am
Just wondering if MP3 support is back in 2.6?
We had our first tornado watch of the year last week, and I HAVE to get the NOAA alert system back to working on our home paging system.
 
Actually, nevermind about the mp3's
Fri, 03/14/2008 - 11:27am
I finally got it working by piping the mp3 through lame and then through sox.
I hate having the extra overhead of having to transcode, but at least the service is back up now.
 
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