[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0014019]: Starting or restarting asterisk causes seg fault and core dump, apparently in ael/pval.c:4833

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A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14019 
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Reported By:                ckjohnsonme
Assigned To:                murf
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   14019
Category:                   PBX/pbx_ael
Reproducibility:            sometimes
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     confirmed
Asterisk Version:           SVN 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases):  trunk 
SVN Revision (number only!): 160852 
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             2008-12-03 20:11 CST
Last Modified:              2008-12-09 08:18 CST
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Summary:                    Starting or restarting asterisk causes seg fault and
core dump, apparently in ael/pval.c:4833
Description: 
[root at freedom asterisk]# asterisk -V
Asterisk SVN-trunk-r160791
[root at freedom asterisk]# service asterisk start
Starting asterisk:                                         [  OK  ]
[root at freedom asterisk]# service asterisk restart
Shutting down asterisk: Asterisk ended with exit status 0
Asterisk shutdown normally.
                                                           [  OK  ]
Starting asterisk:                                         [  OK  ]
[root at freedom asterisk]# /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 138: 11599
Segmentation fault      (core dumped) nice -n $PRIORITY
${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -f ${CLIARGS} ${ASTARGS} > /dev/${TTY} 2>&1 <
/dev/${TTY}
Asterisk ended with exit status 139
Asterisk exited on signal 11.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
mpg123: no process killed
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 138: 11643 Segmentation fault      (core
dumped) nice -n $PRIORITY ${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -f ${CLIARGS} ${ASTARGS} >
/dev/${TTY} 2>&1 < /dev/${TTY}
Asterisk ended with exit status 139
Asterisk exited on signal 11.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
mpg123: no process killed
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 138: 11688 Segmentation fault      (core
dumped) nice -n $PRIORITY ${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -f ${CLIARGS} ${ASTARGS} >
/dev/${TTY} 2>&1 < /dev/${TTY}
Asterisk ended with exit status 139
Asterisk exited on signal 11.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
mpg123: no process killed
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 138: 11732 Segmentation fault      (core
dumped) nice -n $PRIORITY ${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -f ${CLIARGS} ${ASTARGS} >
/dev/${TTY} 2>&1 < /dev/${TTY}
Asterisk ended with exit status 139
Asterisk exited on signal 11.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
mpg123: no process killed
/usr/sbin/safe_asterisk: line 138: 11775 Segmentation fault      (core
dumped) nice -n $PRIORITY ${ASTSBINDIR}/asterisk -f ${CLIARGS} ${ASTARGS} >
/dev/${TTY} 2>&1 < /dev/${TTY}
Asterisk ended with exit status 139
Asterisk exited on signal 11.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
mpg123: no process killed

The problem occurs frequently but not reliably.  Starting asterisk service
usually causes one or more segfaults before safe_asterisk successfully
starts asterisk.
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 (0096002) murf (administrator) - 2008-12-09 08:18
 http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14019#c96002 
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I've attached 14019.diff; please apply it to trunk, and verify that it
prevents crashes. 

 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2008-12-09 08:18 murf           Note Added: 0096002                          
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