[asterisk-bugs] [JIRA] (ASTERISK-28699) ast_coredumper does not find asterisk running process and silently fails

[Benjamin Keith Ford (JIRA)]

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Benjamin Keith Ford commented on ASTERISK-28699:
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I was able to replicate this, so I'll go ahead and open up a ticket for it.

> ast_coredumper does not find asterisk running process and silently fails
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ASTERISK-28699
>                 URL: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-28699
>             Project: Asterisk
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: None
>          Components: Core/ACL
>    Affects Versions: 17.1.0
>         Environment: root at debian9:~/Downloads# cat /etc/os-release 
> PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
> NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
> VERSION_ID="9"
> VERSION="9 (stretch)"
> ID=debian
> HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
> SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
>            Reporter: Addons Zz
>            Severity: Trivial
>
> I do not use command line configurations, because I had set:
> File: /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
> ...
> [options]
> verbose = 3
> debug = 0
> highpriority = yes		; Run realtime priority (same as -p at
> dumpcore = yes			; Dump core on crash (same as -g at startup).
> Now, when I run:
> root at debian9:~/Downloads# /var/lib/asterisk/scripts/ast_coredumper --running --latest
> It outputs nothing. Then I edited the file `/var/lib/asterisk/scripts/ast_coredumper` and removed the line `set -e`
> After that, when running the command, it started outputting:
> root at debian9:~/Downloads# /var/lib/asterisk/scripts/ast_coredumper --running --latest
> Asterisk is not running
> However, I have the asterisk process up and running: (pid 11529)
> root at debian9:~/Downloads# ps aux | grep asterisk
> root     11529 26.2 14.5 2243256 73400 ?       SLsl 15:02  18:07 asterisk
> root     11530  0.0  0.3  15232  1560 ?        S    15:02   0:00 astcanary /var/run/asterisk/alt.asterisk.canary.tweet.tweet.tweet 11529
> root     27971  0.0  0.1 132344   964 pts/0    R+   16:11   0:00 grep --color=auto asterisk
> root     29065  0.0  1.8  98488  9100 pts/6    S+   15:22   0:00 rasterisk r
> I managed to make it work, by replacing the line `pids=$(pgrep -f "$asterisk_bin")` directly with my asterisk pid `pids=11529`:
> root at debian9:~/Downloads# /var/lib/asterisk/scripts/ast_coredumper --running --latest
> Found a single asterisk instance running as process 11529
> WARNING:  Taking a core dump of the running asterisk instance will suspend call processing while the dump is saved.  Do you wish to continue? (y/N) y
> Dumping running asterisk process to /tmp/core-asterisk-running-2020-01-17T17-21-35-0300
> Processing /tmp/core-asterisk-running-2020-01-17T17-21-35-0300
> Creating /tmp/core-asterisk-running-2020-01-17T17-21-35-0300-thread1.txt
> Creating /tmp/core-asterisk-running-2020-01-17T17-21-35-0300-brief.txt
> Creating /tmp/core-asterisk-running-2020-01-17T17-21-35-0300-full.txt
> Creating /tmp/core-asterisk-running-2020-01-17T17-21-35-0300-locks.txt



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