[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk causing server to hang ... any hints?

beonice beonice at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 8 17:17:24 MST 2005


By the way, in case it matters, I don't have any
digium cards or SIP phones attached to the Asterisk
setup. Right now, it's all IAX, just receiving
incoming calls.

Cheers,
BeOnIce.

--- "Chamberland-Larose, Guillaume" <guillaume at ea.com>
wrote:

> If the asterisk process is hung up you should be
> able to debug it. If
> the whole machine is hung up this is a totally
> different issue isn't it.
> If you're running linux and the machine locks up
> that often, you must
> have a hardware problem. Or maybe you just think the
> machine is locked
> up while it actually isn't. 
> 
> You might want to look on google and the wiki about
> deadlocks, I've seen
> a lot of information around on how to debug them and
> report them.
> 
> Guills
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: beonice [mailto:beonice at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:41 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk causing server
> to hang ... 
> > any hints?
> > 
> > I am trying to set up a simple Asterisk server.
> All it's 
> > going to do for now is to act as my voicemail box.
> I've got a 
> > DID from Voicepulse, and am using IAX (I'll get to
> SIP 
> > someday when I want to circumvent the phone
> company for 
> > long-distance, but for now I'd be happy to get a
> trial 
> > version of Asterisk running).
> > 
> > So far, I've managed to set up voicemail.conf, 
> > extensions.conf and iax.conf so that incoming
> calls are 
> > answered and a voicemail can be left. Initially I
> did not 
> > have a handler for the timeout case, and Asterisk
> would 
> > complain about the missing handler and
> occasionally would 
> > crash the server after several messages had been
> left (I'm 
> > the only one testing it, and the server has
> nothing else 
> > running, just Asterisk), requiring a hard reboot. 
> > 
> > To avoid this, I put in a handler for the timeout.
> > Now, Asterisk crashes the server as soon as I
> leave myself a 
> > message! This is irritating. Hard reboots
> everytime someone 
> > leaves me a voicemail is not going to be something
> I can 
> > trust if I go on vacation (hopefully someday
> soon).
> > 
> > Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
> > 
> > Here's the change I made to my extension file
> (this used to 
> > crash occasionally):
> > [old-context]
> > exten => 7777,2,VoiceMail,u7777
> > exten => 7777,3,Hangup
> > exten => 7777,102,VoiceMail,b7777
> > exten => 7777,3,Hangup
> > exten => 7777,103,Hangup
> > 
> > 
> > [new-context] ;; crashes all the time!
> > exten => 7777,2,VoiceMail,u7777
> > exten => 7777,3,Hangup
> > exten => 7777,102,VoiceMail,b7777
> > exten => 7777,3,Hangup
> > exten => 7777,103,Hangup
> > exten => 8888,1,Playback(transfer,skip)
> > exten => 8888,2,Ringing
> > exten => 8888,3,Wait(2)
> > exten => 8888,4,VoiceMail,u8888
> > exten => 8888,104,VoiceMail,b8888
> > exten => 1001,1,Ringing
> > exten => 1001,2,Wait(2)
> > exten => 1001,3,VoicemailMain
> > exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,Background(beep)
> > ;exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,2,SayDigits(${EXTEN}) ;exten
> => 
> > _NXXNXXXXXX,3,Goto(testdtmf|s|1) exten =>
> t,1,Ringing exten 
> > => t,2,Hangup exten => i,1,Ringing exten =>
> i,2,Hangup exten 
> > => a,1,VoicemailMain,EXTEN exten => a,2,Hangup
> > 
> > I thought that using the
> > exten => t,2,Hangup and the
> > exten => i,2,Hangup
> > would cause Asterisk to hang up on timeout, but
> obviously I 
> > misunderstood. By the way, what _does_ the 'a'
> handler do, 
> > anyway? I believe 'i' is for invalid key and 't'
> is for 
> > timeout. I'm not sure what 'a'
> > does.
> > 
> > The last time I tried to leave myself voicemail,
> here's the 
> > output I got. And yes, it crashed. I've got
> Asterisk running 
> > at a level of 4 in terms of verbosity, i.e., I
> start it with 
> > /usr/sbin/asterisk -vvvvcp
> > 
> >     -- Playing 'beep' (language 'en')
> > Feb  8 14:07:29 DEBUG[4195]: chan_iax2.c:5310
> > socket_read: Ooh, voice format changed to 4
> >   == CDR updated on
> > IAX2/voicepulse-in-01 at 66.234.228.170:4569/1
> >     -- Executing
> >
>
Playback("IAX2/voicepulse-in-01 at 66.234.228.170:4569/1",
> > "transfer|skip") in new stack
> >     -- Playing 'transfer' (language 'en')
> >     -- Executing
> >
>
VoiceMail("IAX2/voicepulse-in-01 at 66.234.228.170:4569/1",
> > "u7777") in new stack
> > Feb  8 14:07:42 DEBUG[4195]: app_voicemail.c:1381
> > leave_voicemail:
> > voicemail/voicepulse_connect_context/7777/unavail
> > doesn't exist, doing what we can
> >     -- Playing 'vm-theperson' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'digits/7' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'digits/7' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'digits/7' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'digits/7' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'vm-isunavail' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'vm-intro' (language 'en')
> >     -- Playing 'beep' (language 'en')
> >     -- Recording the message
> > Feb  8 14:07:53 DEBUG[4195]: app.c:549
> > ast_play_and_record: play_and_record: <None>, 
> >
>
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/voicepulse_connect_context/7777/
> > INBOX/msg0001,
> > 'wav49|gsm|wav'
> > Feb  8 14:07:53 DEBUG[4195]: app.c:566
> > ast_play_and_record: Recording Formats:
> sfmts=wav49
> >     -- x=0, open writing: 
> >
>
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/voicepulse_connect_context/7777/
> > INBOX/msg0001
> > format: wav49, 0x814ded0
> >     -- x=1, open writing: 
> >
>
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/voicepulse_connect_context/7777/
> > INBOX/msg0001
> > format: gsm, 0x814dff0
> >     -- x=2, open writing: 
> >
>
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/voicepulse_connect_context/7777/
> > INBOX/msg0001
> > format: wav, 0x814e100
> >     -- User ended message by pressing #
> >     -- Playing 'auth-thankyou' (language 'en')
> localhost*CLI>
> > 
> > At this point, the server itself seems to hang. I
> can do 
> > nothing but a physical reboot of the machine.
> > 
> > HELP.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > BeOnIce.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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