[asterisk-dev] Issue with dahdi timing? MOH during parking issue.

[Steve Davies]

Hi,

I asked about this on asterisk-users, and got a couple of suggestions,
but it has now gone silent. I've been digging a bit, but have hit a
wall, and was hoping for a pointer as to where to look next?

MOH works fine 99% of the time. In fact the only time it does not work
is for a parked call when res_timing_dahdi.so is loaded. I do not
believe that the issue lies in res_musiconhold.so as this appears to
use a timer for mp3 music sources, but an external generator/timer is
used if MOH is using raw files (as I am).

I have scattered debug all over the res_timers*.c,  features.c and
channel.c, and see the following occur during a working and non
working call park:

- Timer1 opened and started (I assume by chan_sip in this case)
- Timer1 generator fires regularly (creating silence?)
- Call proceeds and is parked
- Timer2 opened and started (for the parking thread I assume)
- Timer2 becomes the chan->timer value to replace Timer1
- Park position is played, and timer2 is stopped/started to do this.
- Timer2 is started for use with MOH
- Timer1 is closed here

At this point, Timer2 should be running, and is correctly referenced
in chan->timer and in chan->fds[8] (AST_TIMING_FD is 8), the sequence
is identical so far whether res_timing_dahdi.so or
res_timing_pthread.so is loaded.

At this point things differ:
  res_timing_pthread.so - poll events occur both on chan->fds[0] and
on chan->fds[8] (the timing FD) and MOH works fine.
  res_timing_dahdi.so - poll events on the timing FD seem to stop, but
continue on chan->fds[0], MOH does not work.

Because the timing FD is not firing, the generator is not called, and
no MOH data is read from the files, resulting in silence.

I have confirmed that the timer's FD is still listed in pfds[], but is
never returning POLLIN once Timer1 is closed. My concern is that this
is a dahdi pseudofd bug, and I am certainly not qualified to go
messing with kernel modules :(

Any thoughts where to look next? Can anyone else even replicate this?
I am using asterisk 1.6.2.16-rc1 and dahdi 2.4.0 on Debian linux.

Thanks,
Steve