[Asterisk-Dev] SEGV in CVS version of Asterisk

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 09:04, Matteo Brancaleoni wrote:
> or better, just rm -fR all modules you don't need
> in /usr/lib/asterisk/modules 
> so no need to bother 'bout modules.conf
> 
> but be aware that there're some deps between them
> (ie. can't have chan_modem_blah without chan_modem.so)

And then the next time you update your code and compile again, it will
show back up and give you the same problem.

At least as long as it is in the modules.conf file you won't be
surprised by it again. 

> Il mer, 2003-12-10 alle 05:48, Steven Critchfield ha scritto:
> > in /etc/asterisk/modules.conf
> > 
> > noload=>chan_vbp.so
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:53, Ron OHara wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Maybe someone can suggest how to bypass this problem.
> > > 
> > > Background:
> > > I took a copy of asterisk from CVS and did the 'make clean ; make 
> > > install ; make samples' and tried starting it (with all the configs 
> > > unchanged) just to see if it would start.
> > > 
> > > Nope - instant Segmentation Fault.
> > > 
> > > So - after a bit of tracking around with 'ddd' I found that the problem 
> > > is in the 'monitor' thread of the 'chan_vpb' driver.
> > > 
> > > The SEGV occurs on line 142 of 'vpb-driver-2.2.34/src/fifo.cpp' - not 
> > > surprising since it is handed a NULL pointer as it's queue to read from.
> > > This was called from line 2185 of 'vpb-driver-2.2.34/src//vpbapi.cpp' 
> > > and is where the 'vpb_get_event_sync' routine tries to do an initial 
> > > read from a queue pointer (variable name is APIQ) ... and this pointer 
> > > is also NULL.
> > > 
> > > Since I dont have a Voicetronix Voice Processing Board (VPB) in the 
> > > system, it's not surprising that all the setup stuff is null or not 
> > > initialised.
> > > 
> > > My question is:  How do I tell the configs that I dont have a VPB 
> > > installed? - as a secondary issue, somewhere in the startup, the 
> > > initialisation of the VPB card should have failed and not let this 
> > > situation move forward to where it SEGV's .... if there is no config 
> > > file change I can make, can someone point me to (roughly) where the 
> > > initialisation happens so that I can make it tolerate the lack of hardware.
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > Ron O'Hara
> > > 
> > > 
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Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>