[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk crashing with no indication why.

[Daniel Daley]

> That can very well be the cause - there is a known issue, first stated 
> by
> "mattf" on this list, about trouble when a manager API client looses 
> the
> connection and then another API client (maybe the same using a 
> different
> connection) comes into play.

Thankfully I read about that in the wiki and used a version of his idea 
to implement a central daemon that handles all connections. The daemon 
runs on the local machine so it shouldn't loose the connection unless 
asterisk dumps it.

> So: Stop using that deamon and see if Asterisk becomes stable.
> You could also introduce regular - but not too many! - "reloads", e.g. 
> 1-
> 4 times a day plus one "restart" during night time with the help of a
> CRON job.

Unfortunately we can't without loosing our ability to function as a 
call center, since the daemon is required to handle logins/logouts of 
our agents and reporting back to us queue statistics. Do the reloads 
help clean out pending troubles? I read a little about doing the 
restarts (which is still difficult since it logs our agents out) but 
maybe if reloads help we could try that.

> Also: Check /tmp for a core file and run gdb and a backtrace if you 
> find
> one. Search for "debugging" on the Wiki for more detailed instructions.

No luck there, I guess I'll have to keep waiting for it to happen 
again, it's been 2 days now, funny how it happens all the time when 
you're not waiting.

Thanks,

--Daniel Daley--
dan at chameleoncode.jp