expand the notification, what are the rest of the details, there should be a code at the end which is very useful in tracking it.
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Philippe Lindheimer - FreePBX Project Lead
http//freepbx.org - IRC #freepbx

check permissions on retrieve_conf, make sure it is owned by asterisk, apache is running asterisk and it is executable. It sounds like it is not running at all because if it were there would be additional notifications coming from retrieve_conf with more specific information (this comes when it tries to run retrieve_conf and gets an error code of 126)
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Philippe Lindheimer - FreePBX Project Lead
http//freepbx.org - IRC #freepbx

assuming apache is running as asterisk, (verify that) make yourself user asterisk and run retrieve_conf directly from linux and see what it says.
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Philippe Lindheimer - FreePBX Project Lead
http//freepbx.org - IRC #freepbx

Hi! I'm having the same problem. I have tried with setting "chmod 777" on "/var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf", but i still get the same error.

If i run it directly:

root@Sandnabba.se: /usr/src/freepbx-2.3.1 # /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf

Checking for PEAR DB..OK
Checking for PEAR Console::Getopt..OK
Checking for /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Bootstrapping /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Parsing /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Parsing /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf ..OK
Connecting to database..OK
Connecting to Asterisk manager interface..OK
Added to globals: ASTETCDIR = /etc/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTMODDIR = /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
Added to globals: ASTVARLIBDIR = /var/lib/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTAGIDIR = /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin
Added to globals: ASTSPOOLDIR = /var/spool/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTRUNDIR = /var/run/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTLOGDIR = /var/log/asterisk
Added to globals: CWINUSEBUSY = true
Added to globals: AMPMGRUSER = XXXXXX
Added to globals: AMPMGRPASS = XXXXX
Please update your modules and reload Asterisk by visiting http://my-page.se/XXX

root@Sandnabba.se: /home/emil # ls -l /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf
-rwxrwx--- 1 asterisk www-data 21750 2007-12-07 18:57 /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf

Any idea here?

Why doesn't the default install script (install_amp) check the permissions and ownership accordingly?

I had this same problem and found that the Shebang needed to be changed to #!/usr/local/bin/php -q with regards to my server. I have PHP compiled a bit differently and noticed Freepbx script files have #!/usr/bin/php -q instead. Once I changed that everything reloaded just fine. - Jim

Jeroen_Universal,

Please start a new thread as you'll get better responses and help when the subject is directly related to your problem and not tagged onto the end of another one. It is considered hijacking and as the two previous posters before you also found out you don't always get a response when you do that.

So when you do start a clean thread please provide the following: your error, your configuration and versions of everything (OS, asterisk, FreePBX), who's directions (a link please) you followed, where you deviated from the directions and why along with where you had permissions problems occurring because I'll bet that you have not totally solved the permissions issue, and/or you missed installing something that something else is expecting to already be in place.

I have mandrake 10.1 but... apply configuration changes

./retrieve_conf

Checking for PEAR DB..OK
Checking for PEAR Console::Getopt..OK
Checking for /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Bootstrapping /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Parsing /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Parsing /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf ..OK
Connecting to database..OK
Connecting to Asterisk manager interface..OK
[FATAL]
SELECT s1.ext ext, dest, dmode, s2.description description FROM daynight s1
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT ext, dest description FROM daynight WHERE dmode = 'fc_description') s2
ON s1.ext = s2.ext WHERE dmode in ('day','night')
[nativecode=1064 ** You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'SELECT ext, dest description FROM daynight WHERE dmode = 'fc_de]SQL -

SELECT s1.ext ext, dest, dmode, s2.description description FROM daynight s1
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT ext, dest description FROM daynight WHERE dmode = 'fc_description') s2
ON s1.ext = s2.ext WHERE dmode in ('day','night')

say error

I had this problem after a fresh install of Trixbox 2.2.12 (the last one that still runs on C3 processors) and then did an update to FreePBX versions 2.4 then 2.5.

All seemed to work correctly until my fellow admin changed something on the "General Settings" page and got the error that started the thread.

I did this and it seemed to fix things:

cd /var/lib/asterisk/bin

chmod a+x *

I'm concerned there may be similar problems lurking elsewhere, but the phones are ringing again, so on to the next problem!

cheers, michael

I have same problem, but other error
# /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf
Checking for PEAR DB..OK
Checking for PEAR Console::Getopt..OK
Checking for /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Bootstrapping /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Parsing /etc/amportal.conf ..OK
Parsing /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf ..OK
Connecting to database..OK
PHP Warning: Missing argument 1 for connectdirs::create(), called in /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf on line 430 and defined in /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf on line 13
Connecting to Asterisk manager interface..OK
Added to globals: ASTETCDIR = /etc/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTMODDIR = /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
Added to globals: ASTVARLIBDIR = /var/lib/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTAGIDIR = /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
Added to globals: ASTSPOOLDIR = /var/spool/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTRUNDIR = /var/run/asterisk
Added to globals: ASTLOGDIR = /var/log/asterisk
Added to globals: CWINUSEBUSY = true
Added to globals: AMPMGRUSER = admin
Added to globals: AMPMGRPASS = ****
Added to globals: AMPDBENGINE = mysql
Added to globals: AMPDBHOST = localhost
Added to globals: AMPDBNAME = asterisk
Added to globals: AMPDBUSER = asteriskuser
Added to globals: AMPDBPASS = ****
Notice: no Queues defined
Notice: no Parking Lots defined
Notice: no iax trunks defined
Notice: no AMP Users defined
Please update your modules and reload Asterisk by visiting http://192.168.0.125/admin

In /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf i have "function &create(&$db) {" at line 13 and "$con_dirs = connectdirs::create();" at line 430. FreePBX 2.7.0.4.
Any idea here?

I've encountered same problem in FreePBX(meanwhile asterisk was working without an issue).
Solutions posted here was not helpful so I thought posting here the one that resolved my problem could save some time. I found it on Elastix forum:
http://www.elastix.org/en/component/kunena/1/20315/

change selinux from to permissive either by running "setup" from console or by editing /etc/selinux/config file