[Asterisk-Users] Problem with VM Distribution Groups

[Piotr A. Sygula]

We're experiencing the same problem over here:

    -- Executing VoiceMail("IAX2/cspbxout-3",
"s201 at internal&101 at internal") in new stack
    -- Playing 'beep' (language 'en')
    -- Recording the message
    -- x=0, open writing:
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/internal/201/INBOX/msg0003 format: wav49,
0x81a3010
    -- x=1, open writing:
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/internal/201/INBOX/msg0003 format: gsm,
0x8151380
    -- x=2, open writing:
/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/internal/201/INBOX/msg0003 format: wav,
0x81b1468
    -- User ended message by pressing #
    -- Playing 'auth-thankyou' (language 'en')
Nov  3 23:58:52 NOTICE[11654]: app_voicemail.c:2298 copy_message:
Copying message from 201 at internal to 101 at internal
Nov  3 23:58:57 WARNING[11654]: app.c:1158 ast_lock_path: Failed to lock
path '': File exists


Haven't seen a resolution anywhere, and believe you me, I tried my heart
out.  I swear this worked yesterday, but I retraced all my steps, and
other than some basic changes to the dialplan, everything is the same.

I know others out there are probably having the same issue; one's a
fluke, two's a bug, a misconfiguration at the very least.


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Peter A. Sygula
President/Chief Security Officer - NetShapers, Inc.
< http://www.net-shapers.com  >

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Hi,

We're experiencing a problem with basic VM distribution groups where 
messages won't be delivered.

VM is called with a command like: Voicemail(20&30&39&...

CLI Shows:
  Oct  1 20:54:33 NOTICE[26943]: app_voicemail.c:1990 copy_message: 
  Copying message from 60 at default to 50 at default
  Oct  1 20:54:38 WARNING[26943]: app.c:1125 ast_lock_path: Failed to
lock 
  path '': File exists

for each attempt and nothing is delivered.


I've read a number of threads where the VM distribution list exceeds 256

characters and this breaks things, but that isn't the case here.
Delivery 
fails with even a small number of mailboxes.

Voicemail works normally otherwise.

Can anyone advise?

Thanks,
-Corey