/usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_parking.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So starting asterisk dies because res_parking.so appears to have disappeared. I'm not going to go to great lengths on this one, but I was stumped for about 2 hours this morning, trying to build both asterisk-1.0.7 and asterisk-1.0.9 - neither would start. The error looked like this:

[res_parking.so]Oct  6 14:48:43 WARNING[26288]: loader.c:258 ast_load_resource: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/res_parking.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Oct  6 14:48:43 WARNING[26288]: loader.c:391 load_modules: Loading module res_parking.so failed!

I take it you are here because you have googled the error message and want to find a quick fix for this - the answer lies here: res_parking has apparently been depracated and is now called res_features, so open your /etc/asterisk/modules.conf and edit the line that loads res_parking.so to read res_features.so. You will then be able to load asterisk.. or at least you'll be on to the next depracated, but scarcely documented something-or-other.

pah!

christo :)