Japanatron Logo

I ran a yum update process on my Elastix PBX, updating all the packages.  The update process completed without error; however, voicemail was disabled on all user extensions.  Here's how I fixed it. 

* SSH into the PBX and cd to /etc/asterisk.
* Find voicemail.conf.  If you cat it, you'll notice it's basically empty.  But don't have a heart attack just yet.
* You should also see a file called something like voicemail.conf.old_DATE_TIME (e.g. voicemail.conf.old_2015Feb12_183454).  The date should match the date you performed the fateful yum update command.  If you cat this file, you should see that it contains your proper voicemail user configuration.
* Backup voicemail.conf to be safe.
* Restore the data in the backup file to voicemail.conf.  You can copy/paste, cp, etc.
* Make sure the permissions, owner, and group match.  They should be 664 with owner and group set to "asterisk."  You'll see these same settings on the other voicemail configuration files.
* Apply the configuration.  I usually just click somewhere in the Elastix web GUI to get the "Apply Config" link to appear and click it.
* Look at a few extensions in the web GUI, and you should see that voicemail is now enabled.  Disaster averted!

Related Articles

Joomla - YouTube Videos Too Bi...

PROBLEMAfter updating my Joomla Gavick template to the latest version, the embedded YouTube videos appeared massively large on desktop browsers.  Mobile browser...

Kingston USB Drive Not Working...

I upgraded to MacOS El Capitan and to my chagrin my Kingston USB drive no longer works.  I get some stupid "Unable to start DTXX application" or "ERR_COULD_NOT_...

JomSocial - How to Disable Cov...

I don't particularly like Facebook's cover photo feature, so I didn't particularly like it when JomSocial followed suit.  Here's how to disable JomSocial's cove...

Joomla 2.5 - Horizontal Footer...

For some reason Joomla 2.5 lost the ability to show nice horizontal menus in the footer; instead the items appear vertically.  I personally used this in Joomla ...