FreePBX script fails to install using default settings #9531
Description
✅ Have you read and understood the above guidelines?
yes
🔎 Did you run the script with verbose mode enabled?
Yes, verbose mode was enabled and the output is included below
📜 What is the name of the script you are using?
FreePBX
📂 What was the exact command used to execute the script?
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/ct/freepbx.sh)"
⚙️ What settings are you using?
- Default Settings
- Advanced Settings
🖥️ Which Linux distribution are you using?
Debian 12
📈 Which Proxmox version are you on?
pve-manager/9.1.1/42db4a6cf33dac83 (running kernel: 6.17.2-2-pve)
📝 Provide a clear and concise description of the issue.
Script is broken in some way that prevents freepbx from connecting to asterisk and this causing a installation script to end with error:
Error Output:
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Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)
reload [--json] [--dry-run] [--skip-registry-checks] [--dont-reload-asterisk]
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - ****** INSTALLATION FAILED *****
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - Error at line: 1310 exiting with code 1 (last command was: fwconsole reload >> "$log")
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - Exiting script
[ERROR] in line 18: exit code 0: while executing command $STD bash /opt/sng_freepbx_debian_install.sh
[ERROR] in line 1361: exit code 0: while executing command lxc-attach -n "$CTID" -- bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://git.community-scripts.org/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/branch/main/install/${var_install}.sh)"
🔄 Steps to reproduce the issue.
Step 1: Run this command in Proxmox console:
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/main/ct/freepbx.sh)"
Step 2: Select default settings (with verbose)
Step 3: Wait for a script to execute
❌ Paste the full error output (if available).
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⚙️ Using Default Settings on node Amdekownia (🔍 Verbose)
🆔 Container ID: 101
🖥️ Operating System: debian (12)
📦 Container Type: Unprivileged
💾 Disk Size: 10 GB
🧠 CPU Cores: 2
🛠️ RAM Size: 2048 MiB
🔍 Verbose Mode: Enabled
🚀 Creating a FreePBX LXC using the above default settings
✔️ Storage local (Free: 80.1GB Used: 7.0GB) [Template]
✔️ Storage local-lvm (Free: 119.2GB Used: 212.8GB) [Container]
✔️ Cluster is quorate
✔️ Template debian-12-standard_12.12-1_amd64.tar.zst [online]
💡 Template debian-12-standard_12.12-1_amd64.tar.zst is missing or corrupted. Re-downloading.
✔️ Template download successful.
✔️ LXC Container 101 was successfully created.
✔️ Started LXC Container
💡 No network in LXC yet (try 1/10) – waiting...
✔️ Network in LXC is reachable (ping)
✔️ Customized LXC Container
✔️ Set up Container OS
✔️ Network Connected: 192.168.100.159
✔️ IPv4 Internet Connected
✖️ IPv6 Internet Not Connected
✔️ Git DNS: github.com:(✔️ ) raw.githubusercontent.com:(✔️ ) api.github.com:(✔️ ) git.community-scripts.org:(✔️ )
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-dnsutils bind9-host bind9-libs libssl3 openssl
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4854 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security/main amd64 libssl3 amd64 3.0.17-1~deb12u3 [2028 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security/main amd64 bind9-host amd64 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1 [54.7 kB]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security/main amd64 bind9-dnsutils amd64 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1 [155 kB]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security/main amd64 bind9-libs amd64 1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1 [1181 kB]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security/main amd64 openssl amd64 3.0.17-1~deb12u3 [1434 kB]
Fetched 4854 kB in 1s (7068 kB/s)
apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...
(Reading database ... 20346 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libssl3_3.0.17-1~deb12u3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libssl3:amd64 (3.0.17-1~deb12u3) over (3.0.17-1~deb12u2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../bind9-host_1%3a9.18.41-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bind9-host (1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1) over (1:9.18.33-1~deb12u2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../bind9-dnsutils_1%3a9.18.41-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bind9-dnsutils (1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1) over (1:9.18.33-1~deb12u2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../bind9-libs_1%3a9.18.41-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking bind9-libs:amd64 (1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1) over (1:9.18.33-1~deb12u2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../openssl_3.0.17-1~deb12u3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking openssl (3.0.17-1~deb12u3) over (3.0.17-1~deb12u2) ...
Setting up libssl3:amd64 (3.0.17-1~deb12u3) ...
Setting up openssl (3.0.17-1~deb12u3) ...
Setting up bind9-libs:amd64 (1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1) ...
Setting up bind9-host (1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1) ...
Setting up bind9-dnsutils (1:9.18.41-1~deb12u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u13) ...
✔️ Updated Container OS
⏳ Installing FreePBX (Patience)2025-11-30 21:22:27 - Performing version check...
Perfect! You're already running the latest version.
2025-11-30 21:22:28 - Running in a Container. Skipping Chrony installation.
2025-11-30 21:22:28 - Starting installation.
2025-11-30 21:22:28 - Starting FreePBX 17 installation process for freepbx Linux freepbx 6.17.2-2-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.17.2-2 (2025-11-26T12:33Z) x86_64 GNU/Linux
2025-11-30 21:22:28 - Please refer to the /var/log/pbx/freepbx17-install-2025.11.30-21.22.27.log to know the process...
2025-11-30 21:22:28 - Making sure installation is sane
2025-11-30 21:22:38 - Setting up default configuration
2025-11-30 21:22:40 - Setting up repositories
2025-11-30 21:22:58 - Setting up Sangoma repository
2025-11-30 21:22:59 - You are installing FreePBX 17 on kernel 6.17.2-2.
2025-11-30 21:22:59 - Please note that if you have plan to use DAHDI then:
2025-11-30 21:22:59 - Ensure that you either choose DAHDI option so script will configure DAHDI
2025-11-30 21:22:59 - OR
2025-11-30 21:22:59 - Ensure you are running a DAHDI supported Kernel. Current latest supported kernel version is 6.1.0-37.
2025-11-30 21:22:59 - Updating repository
2025-11-30 21:23:08 - Installing required packages
2025-11-30 21:23:08 - Installing redis-server ....
2025-11-30 21:23:31 - redis-server installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:23:31 - Installing ghostscript ....
2025-11-30 21:25:27 - ghostscript installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:25:27 - Installing libtiff-tools ....
2025-11-30 21:25:39 - libtiff-tools installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:25:39 - Installing iptables-persistent ....
2025-11-30 21:26:09 - iptables-persistent installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:26:09 - Installing net-tools ....
2025-11-30 21:26:20 - net-tools installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:26:20 - Installing rsyslog ....
2025-11-30 21:26:42 - rsyslog installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:26:42 - Installing nmap ....
2025-11-30 21:27:15 - nmap installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:27:15 - Installing apache2 ....
2025-11-30 21:28:18 - apache2 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:28:18 - Installing zip ....
2025-11-30 21:28:30 - zip installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:28:30 - Installing incron ....
2025-11-30 21:28:47 - incron installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:28:47 - Installing vim ....
2025-11-30 21:29:12 - vim installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:29:12 - Installing rsync ....
2025-11-30 21:29:26 - rsync installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:29:26 - Installing mariadb-server ....
2025-11-30 21:32:20 - mariadb-server installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:32:20 - Installing bison ....
2025-11-30 21:32:33 - bison installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:32:34 - Installing flex ....
2025-11-30 21:34:43 - flex installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:34:43 - Installing flite ....
2025-11-30 21:35:11 - flite installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:35:11 - Installing php8.2 ....
2025-11-30 21:36:32 - php8.2 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:36:32 - Installing php8.2-curl ....
2025-11-30 21:36:41 - php8.2-curl installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:36:41 - Installing php8.2-zip ....
2025-11-30 21:36:52 - php8.2-zip installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:36:52 - Installing php8.2-redis ....
2025-11-30 21:37:04 - php8.2-redis installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:37:04 - Installing php8.2-mysql ....
2025-11-30 21:37:19 - php8.2-mysql installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:37:19 - Installing php8.2-gd ....
2025-11-30 21:37:31 - php8.2-gd installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:37:31 - Installing php8.2-mbstring ....
2025-11-30 21:37:40 - php8.2-mbstring installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:37:40 - Installing php8.2-intl ....
2025-11-30 21:37:49 - php8.2-intl installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:37:50 - Installing php8.2-xml ....
2025-11-30 21:38:12 - php8.2-xml installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:38:12 - Installing php8.2-bz2 ....
2025-11-30 21:38:21 - php8.2-bz2 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:38:21 - Installing php8.2-ldap ....
2025-11-30 21:38:31 - php8.2-ldap installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:38:31 - Installing php8.2-sqlite3 ....
2025-11-30 21:38:42 - php8.2-sqlite3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:38:43 - Installing php8.2-bcmath ....
2025-11-30 21:38:51 - php8.2-bcmath installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:38:51 - Installing php8.2-soap ....
2025-11-30 21:39:01 - php8.2-soap installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:39:01 - Installing php8.2-ssh2 ....
2025-11-30 21:39:12 - php8.2-ssh2 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:39:12 - Installing php-pear ....
2025-11-30 21:39:25 - php-pear installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:39:25 - Installing sox ....
2025-11-30 21:40:09 - sox installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:40:09 - Installing mpg123 ....
2025-11-30 21:40:42 - mpg123 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:40:42 - Installing sqlite3 ....
2025-11-30 21:40:54 - sqlite3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:40:54 - Installing git ....
2025-11-30 21:41:19 - git installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:41:19 - Installing uuid ....
2025-11-30 21:41:32 - uuid installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:41:32 - Installing odbc-mariadb ....
2025-11-30 21:41:50 - odbc-mariadb installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:41:50 - Installing subversion ....
2025-11-30 21:42:12 - subversion installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:42:12 - Installing unixodbc ....
2025-11-30 21:42:27 - unixodbc installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:42:27 - Installing nodejs ....
2025-11-30 21:43:00 - nodejs installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:43:00 - Installing npm ....
2025-11-30 21:57:02 - npm installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:57:02 - Installing ipset ....
2025-11-30 21:57:19 - ipset installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:57:19 - Installing fail2ban ....
2025-11-30 21:58:14 - fail2ban installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:58:14 - Installing htop ....
2025-11-30 21:58:30 - htop installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:58:30 - Installing tcpdump ....
2025-11-30 21:58:43 - tcpdump installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:58:43 - Installing sngrep ....
2025-11-30 21:58:55 - sngrep installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:58:55 - Installing tftpd-hpa ....
2025-11-30 21:59:11 - tftpd-hpa installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:59:11 - Installing xinetd ....
2025-11-30 21:59:29 - xinetd installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:59:29 - Installing lame ....
2025-11-30 21:59:42 - lame installed successfully....
2025-11-30 21:59:42 - Installing haproxy ....
2025-11-30 22:00:07 - haproxy installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:00:07 - Installing screen ....
2025-11-30 22:00:25 - screen installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:00:25 - Installing easy-rsa ....
2025-11-30 22:00:54 - easy-rsa installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:00:54 - Installing openvpn ....
2025-11-30 22:01:14 - openvpn installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:01:14 - Installing sysstat ....
2025-11-30 22:01:38 - sysstat installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:01:38 - Installing apt-transport-https ....
2025-11-30 22:01:45 - apt-transport-https installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:01:45 - Installing lsb-release ....
2025-11-30 22:01:58 - lsb-release installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:01:59 - Installing python3-mysqldb ....
2025-11-30 22:02:06 - python3-mysqldb installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:02:06 - Installing at ....
2025-11-30 22:02:22 - at installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:02:22 - Installing avahi-daemon ....
2025-11-30 22:02:48 - avahi-daemon installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:02:48 - Installing avahi-utils ....
2025-11-30 22:02:59 - avahi-utils installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:02:59 - Installing mailutils ....
2025-11-30 22:03:43 - mailutils installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:03:43 - Installing liburiparser1 ....
2025-11-30 22:03:51 - liburiparser1 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:03:51 - Installing libavdevice59 ....
2025-11-30 22:07:52 - libavdevice59 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:07:52 - Installing python-is-python3 ....
2025-11-30 22:08:04 - python-is-python3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:08:04 - Installing pkgconf ....
2025-11-30 22:08:19 - pkgconf installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:08:19 - Installing libicu-dev ....
2025-11-30 22:08:39 - libicu-dev installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:08:39 - Installing libsrtp2-1 ....
2025-11-30 22:08:52 - libsrtp2-1 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:08:52 - Installing libspandsp2 ....
2025-11-30 22:09:00 - libspandsp2 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:09:00 - Installing libncurses5 ....
2025-11-30 22:09:12 - libncurses5 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:09:12 - Installing autoconf ....
2025-11-30 22:09:31 - autoconf installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:09:31 - Installing libical3 ....
2025-11-30 22:09:39 - libical3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:09:40 - Installing libneon27 ....
2025-11-30 22:09:48 - libneon27 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:09:48 - Installing libsnmp40 ....
2025-11-30 22:10:09 - libsnmp40 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:10:10 - Installing libtonezone ....
2025-11-30 22:10:21 - libtonezone installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:10:21 - Installing libbluetooth3 ....
2025-11-30 22:10:30 - libbluetooth3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:10:30 - Installing libunbound8 ....
2025-11-30 22:10:42 - libunbound8 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:10:42 - Installing libsybdb5 ....
2025-11-30 22:11:01 - libsybdb5 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:11:01 - Installing libspeexdsp1 ....
2025-11-30 22:11:10 - libspeexdsp1 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:11:10 - Installing libiksemel3 ....
2025-11-30 22:11:18 - libiksemel3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:11:18 - Installing libresample1 ....
2025-11-30 22:11:27 - libresample1 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:11:27 - Installing libgmime-3.0-0 ....
2025-11-30 22:11:37 - libgmime-3.0-0 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:11:37 - Installing libc-client2007e ....
2025-11-30 22:11:53 - libc-client2007e installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:11:53 - Installing imagemagick ....
2025-11-30 22:12:52 - imagemagick installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:12:58 - Installing libfdk-aac2 ....
2025-11-30 22:13:10 - libfdk-aac2 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:13:10 - Removing unnecessary packages
2025-11-30 22:13:12 - Execution time to install all the dependent packages : 3044 s
2025-11-30 22:13:12 - Setting up folders and asterisk config
2025-11-30 22:13:14 - Installing Asterisk packages.
2025-11-30 22:13:15 - Installing asterisk22 ....
2025-11-30 22:13:22 - asterisk22 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:13:22 - Installing asterisk22-addons ....
2025-11-30 22:13:30 - asterisk22-addons installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:13:30 - Installing asterisk22-addons-bluetooth ....
2025-11-30 22:13:37 - asterisk22-addons-bluetooth installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:13:38 - Installing asterisk22-addons-core ....
2025-11-30 22:13:45 - asterisk22-addons-core installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:13:45 - Installing asterisk22-addons-mysql ....
2025-11-30 22:13:52 - asterisk22-addons-mysql installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:13:52 - Installing asterisk22-addons-ooh323 ....
2025-11-30 22:14:00 - asterisk22-addons-ooh323 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:14:00 - Installing asterisk22-core ....
2025-11-30 22:14:20 - asterisk22-core installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:14:20 - Installing asterisk22-curl ....
2025-11-30 22:14:28 - asterisk22-curl installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:14:28 - Installing asterisk22-dahdi ....
2025-11-30 22:14:36 - asterisk22-dahdi installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:14:36 - Installing asterisk22-doc ....
2025-11-30 22:14:48 - asterisk22-doc installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:14:48 - Installing asterisk22-odbc ....
2025-11-30 22:14:55 - asterisk22-odbc installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:14:55 - Installing asterisk22-ogg ....
2025-11-30 22:15:03 - asterisk22-ogg installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:03 - Installing asterisk22-flite ....
2025-11-30 22:15:11 - asterisk22-flite installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:11 - Installing asterisk22-g729 ....
2025-11-30 22:15:19 - asterisk22-g729 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:19 - Installing asterisk22-resample ....
2025-11-30 22:15:26 - asterisk22-resample installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:26 - Installing asterisk22-snmp ....
2025-11-30 22:15:35 - asterisk22-snmp installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:35 - Installing asterisk22-speex ....
2025-11-30 22:15:42 - asterisk22-speex installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:42 - Installing asterisk22-sqlite3 ....
2025-11-30 22:15:49 - asterisk22-sqlite3 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:49 - Installing asterisk22-res-digium-phone ....
2025-11-30 22:15:58 - asterisk22-res-digium-phone installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:15:58 - Installing asterisk22-voicemail ....
2025-11-30 22:16:05 - asterisk22-voicemail installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:16:05 - Installing asterisk22.0-freepbx-asterisk-modules ....
2025-11-30 22:16:13 - asterisk22.0-freepbx-asterisk-modules installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:16:13 - Installing asterisk-version-switch ....
2025-11-30 22:16:20 - asterisk-version-switch installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:16:20 - Installing asterisk-sounds-* ....
2025-11-30 22:21:33 - asterisk-sounds-* installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:21:33 - Installing FreePBX packages
2025-11-30 22:21:33 - Installing sysadmin17 ....
2025-11-30 22:21:53 - sysadmin17 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:21:53 - Installing sangoma-pbx17 ....
2025-11-30 22:22:19 - sangoma-pbx17 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:22:19 - Installing ffmpeg ....
2025-11-30 22:22:35 - ffmpeg installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:22:35 - Enabling modules.
2025-11-30 22:22:35 - Restarting fail2ban
2025-11-30 22:22:37 - Installing FreePBX 17
2025-11-30 22:22:37 - Installing ioncube-loader-82 ....
2025-11-30 22:22:47 - ioncube-loader-82 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:22:47 - Installing freepbx17 ....
2025-11-30 22:42:14 - freepbx17 installed successfully....
2025-11-30 22:42:14 - Installing all local modules
2025-11-30 22:42:32 - Upgrading FreePBX 17 modules
2025-11-30 22:59:50 - Reloading and restarting FreePBX 17
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - Installation failed at step Reloading and restarting FreePBX 17. Please check log /var/log/pbx/freepbx17-install-2025.11.30-21.22.27.log for details.
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - Displaying last 10 lines from the log file
Error Output:
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Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?)
reload [--json] [--dry-run] [--skip-registry-checks] [--dont-reload-asterisk]
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - ****** INSTALLATION FAILED *****
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - Error at line: 1310 exiting with code 1 (last command was: fwconsole reload >> "$log")
2025-11-30 23:00:00 - Exiting script
[ERROR] in line 18: exit code 0: while executing command $STD bash /opt/sng_freepbx_debian_install.sh
[ERROR] in line 1361: exit code 0: while executing command lxc-attach -n "$CTID" -- bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://git.community-scripts.org/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/branch/main/install/${var_install}.sh)"
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