[Asterisk-Dev] AGI Scripting encountering "Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe " with Music On Hold disabled.

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 01:59, Kraig Beahn wrote:
> I am using NetCat to connect to a remote host to control the AGI
> scripting module of Asterisk. Intermittently Asterisk will die with
> the error: 
> Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe 
> Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe
> 
> I read in a lot of other lists that it may be related to the Music On
> Hold mpg123 app. Disabled the MOH module and have the same results,
> seems only to occur when NetCat terminates and returns control to the
> AGI script.
> 
> Here is the AGI script example:
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/nc 127.0.0.1 5001
> exit 0;
> 
> We added the exit 0; at the end of the script because it seems as
> thought netcats error codes were being transfered back to Asterisk and
> causing all sorts of fun issues. With the "exit 0;" in place, we seem
> not to have any issues with the exception of the error as mentioned
> above and reguardless of how we configure the unit it always seems to
> be a problem.
> 
> The System is a RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4 Intel Dual Xeon 3.0Ghz, 4GB
> RD-RAM and an Adaptec Raid-5 configuration (180GB) drive array.
> 
> We are trying to demo this system in hopes of bringing a corporate
> solution with the Zaptel cards for all of our 5000+ PBX users
> nationwide.

Are you using eagi or agi? if eagi, it souns as though your netcat isn't
transferring stderr fd 3 to the otherside nor is it eating the data and
cleaning the pipe so it craps out.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>