Steve: First, thank you for your quick reply. I did another install from scratch using your link to get the bash script evbphase2. I believe this was the same version that I had used initially. However, I received many more Errors, Warnings and Notices than before, including all the ones from my first attempt. I have tried this installation on two computers but with exactly the same results: Everything is fine and Asterisk runs until I execute evbphase2. After it finishes, Asterisk starts but immediately exits with error return 1. A number of the Warnings are really puzzling, such as looking for the sound module 'format_au.so' which clearly does not exist on disk. Is it possible that you had some residual files on your system when you tested evbphase2? I can send you the final lines from /var/log/asterisk/full or the death messages from Asterisk if you would like to see them. Do you see any advantage in trying EVB 010? Looks like I may have to return to compiling everything from source onto Debian :) I would certainly appreciate any further thoughts. 73, David VE7MQ.