[asterisk-users] zaptel alarm

[Shaun Ruffell]

Greg Woods wrote:
> I've been a happy user of asterisk for over a year just for a small home
> setup (a Digium TDM400P with one POTS line and three internal extensions
> plus a couple of SIP phones). I recently moved from running Fedora Core
> 6 running * 1.4.1 compiled from source and zaptel 1.4.7 to Fedora 8,
> using the RPM package for * 1.4.18 and zaptel 1.4.9 . It worked fine for
> a week, but suddenly I can't dial out any more. Incoming calls work
> fine, and outgoing calls through my Teliax line (IAX2) work fine, but I
> get a fast busy if I try to dial out through the land line. All that
> appears in the messages log is:
> 
> [Apr  2 07:13:48] WARNING[24249] chan_zap.c: Detected alarm on channel
> 4: No Alarm
> [Apr  2 07:13:48] NOTICE[24242] chan_zap.c: Alarm cleared on channel 4
> 
> "core set debug 3" doesn't give any more detail.
> 
> I have tried stopping asterisk, restarting zaptel (unloading and
> reloading), and starting asterisk, but the behavior persists.
> 
> Anybody know what this means? Has my hardware suddenly gone bad? Is
> there some way to debug this?
> 
> I apologize in advance for not knowing all the telephone terminology; as
> I said, this is just a small home setup.
> 
> --Greg


Hi Greg,

If you have subversion installed on your server, could you try using 
this version of zaptel:

http://svn.digium.com/svn/zaptel/branches/1.4@4122

There have been some relatively recent changes with how certain signals 
are handled in zaptel and reported by asterisk.

Cheers,
Shaun