[asterisk-users] Asterisk daemon dies about once per day

[Steve Murphy]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 10:50 -0700, Steve Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 10:10 -0700, Douglas Mortensen wrote:
> > I have an asterisk system where the asterisk daemon dies typically at
> > least once per day. It is running in the wrapper safe_asterisk, which
> > automatically starts the daemon back up. But we find this unacceptable
> > because when the daemon dies, we usually have active calls drop, and
> > sometimes we have to run asterisk -r -x "module reload" after the
> > daemon starts back up before everything is working well again. Any
> > help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> Douglas--
> 
> Are you getting core files in /tmp? Getting a stack trace from them
> could
> be very.... informative!
> 
> If not, or there is no debug info in your asterisk, then I encourage you
> to recompile asterisk so that DONT_OPTIMIZE is turned off; and so your

uhhh, I mean "turned ON"... sorry

> safe_asterisk script uses the g option to start asterisk, so it dumps
> core on a crash.
> 
> murf
> 
> > Here's an overview of our system.
> > 
> > Software
> > ========
> > Distro: Trixbox CE 2.6.1.1 (CentOS 5)
> > Linux Kernel: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
> > Asterisk version: 1.4.21.2-2 (trixbox RPM)
> > asterisk-addons: 1.4.6 (trixbox RPM)
> > zaptel 1.4.11-1 (trixbox RPM)
> > zaptel-modules 1.4.11-1.2.6.18_53.1.4.el5 (trixbox RPM)
> > 
> > Hardware
> > ========
> > Rhino Ceros III (2U short-depth server)
> >     - Intel Desktop Board DG33FB
> >     - Intel Pentium D 2.2Ghz (E2200)
> >     - 1GB RAM
> >     - 80GB SATA HostRAID Mirror (RAID1)
> >     - Rhino R1T1-EC Single T1 card (as PRI, using 4 channels + D)
> >     - Rhino RCB8FXX/1 w 1 FXO Module (2 FXO ports total)
> > 
> > Zaptel
> > ========
> > The cards we are using are mentioned above. Other than that, if it
> > helps, here's what we're doing with our trunks. We are using 4
> > channels of the PRI (channels 1-4), plus the D-channel for signaling.
> > The PRI is a U.S.-based T1. With the FXO ports, we are sharing 1 with
> > a fax & credit card machine, and the other one is shared with a
> > different fax, coming off of the fax's phone port (so there is pretty
> > much no way for it to ever see or feel anything fax-related).
> > 
> > I've looked a bit at the asterisk/full and messages log, but so far
> > nothing stands out.
> > 
> > I did see in one forum where someone was having a similar problem and
> > it ended up being a problem with the FXO card sometimes detecting fax
> > tones on the line. This is definitely a possibility with one of our
> > FXO ports, but it surprises me that this could kill the asterisk
> > daemon??
> > 
> > I did speak with Rhino tech support about these daemon restarts and he
> > told me this was normal. He said, "I've got an asterisk system at my
> > house, and the daemon dies every few days. Just make sure it gets run
> > from safe_asterisk, and you'll be fine". Initially I thought we could
> > live with that, but because it does give us dropped calls, and we
> > sometimes have to reload the asterisk modules afterward, I would like
> > to see if we can pin it down and resolve it.
> > 
> > Based on forums I've seen, it seems to me that not everyone out there
> > shares the acceptance of their asterisk daemon restarting every day or
> > two, and that it may not be a wide-spread problem. The only 2 other
> > asterisk systems I've dealt with didn't seem to have this problem. One
> > is my company's system, which is also Trixbox, which we've been on
> > since May 2008. We don't use Zaptel. We use SIP based trunks with
> > bandwidth.com. I wonder if there is something with our Zaptel
> > interfaces causing this.
> > 
> > So not being a asterisk guru here, I'd really appreciate any help.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > -
> > Doug Mortensen
> > Impala Networks Inc.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Steve Murphy
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