[Asterisk-Users] Sound issue

[Rich Adamson]

> I know this is a problem with mpg123, but it just started happening and 
> I have no idea why. I haven't changed any of the audio format settings 
> yet. Before tonight, I was able to call, listen to the queues, hear the 
> music on hold, no problems. I added a new context to a dial plan, 
> reloaded and now I get this error.
> 
> Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe
> 
> Then asterisk just crashes. I have so far tried to make clean && make && 
> make install, that didn't work. Replaced my own configuration files with 
> the samples. Still I get the same error. I also noticed that i had a lot 
> of processes of mpg123 running.
> 
> [root at voip-1 asterisk]# pgrep mpg123
> 2354   2372   2390   2462   2763   2785   2805   2823   2843   2862   
> 2883   2905   2927
> 2949   2966   2986   3005   8608   8656   9180   9708
> 
> 
> I can't seem to get rid of them either. I even restarted the whole 
> server, which asterisk is configured to auto start and they are back. 
> Currently I am running asterisk 1.2.4. The only other thing that I 
> changed today was add odbc support for mssql. But I don't see any 
> correlation there. Yes, I am getting a db error, but that is because the 
> server isn't ready to accept asterisk yet.
> 
> Any suggestions?

The mpg processes are a fairly common problem when asterisk has an
issue. When asterisk dies, it can't clean up those processes.

Just kill them with 'kill -9 2354 2372 etc'

Then go back and figure out what you did for a context change that
broke asterisk.