[asterisk-users] Re: format_wav.c:247 update_header: Unable to find our position

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Bartek Bulzak wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Have you found a solution to this problem? I have been dealing with a 
> similar issue on and off for a few months now. I get these format_wav 
> errors out of the blue and the logs get rotated many times a second into 
> oblivion.
> 
> The only thing that is different on this box versus my other setups is 
> that I've set the music on hold to native format in order to avoid 
> dealing with mpg123.
> 
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I have found that if the logs are rotating several times per second then 
the problem is either you are out of disk space, or you have too many 
files in 1 directory.  When it happened to me I had massive numbers of 
files in /var/log/asterisk.