[asterisk-users] Asterisk just stops working...

[Sherwood McGowan]

Steve Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:31 -0400, Nicolas Ross wrote:
>   
>>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:11:22 -0400, Nicolas Ross wrote
>>>       
>>>> Now, when my server begin not to respond, when I do a sip show peers, I 
>>>> only
>>>> see a subset of the users, and not the summary line. If I do other 
>>>> commands
>>>> like "core show channels", it simply shows nothing at all. Not even a "0
>>>> active channels". Reload, or any other similar commands goes unansered. 
>>>> The
>>>> "core" works as it still answers calls on the PRI, but sip extensions 
>>>> can't
>>>> be reached, etc.
>>>>         
>>> I have had asterisk do this if its hanging on a DNS request.. you got any 
>>> peers in there
>>> using DNS?
>>>       
>> I don,t beleive it's the case. I beleive asterisk would still answer to the 
>> "core show channels" command if it were the case...
>>     
>
> Not necessarily! If the channels are locked while the holdup occurred,
> then, you won't be able to even look at them.
>
>   
>> The clients (phones) are configured to register with a fqdn domain. The 
>> peers are type=friend, host-dynamic.
>>
>> I did change some changes to my dialplan so that I don't use queues and 
>> agents anymore... We'll see if it happens again.
>>
>> By the way, my asterisk doesn't crash, I don't have a core dump. And since 
>> core show locks doesn't provide anything when I'm in that situation, how 
>> could I contribute ?
>>
>>     
>
> The best approach is compile it with debug options, (make menuselect),
> set the compile to DEBUG on, then make clean, make, make install.
>
> THen, fire up under the debugger. When you're all locked up, use ^C to
> halt and leave the debugger in command, and do the "thread apply all bt"
> thing. That should be revealing.
>
> murf
>
>   
>> Thanks, 
>>
>>
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Ah ha! I knew you were still alive Murf!

Sorry, that's all :) Murf drop me a line :)
Sherwood McGowan