[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4.26.2 died after 80 days uptime

[Steve Totaro]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Olle E. Johansson <oej at edvina.net> wrote:
>
> 7 feb 2010 kl. 15.09 skrev Per Jessen:
>
>> Thomas Winter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> my Asterisk on debian lenny died after 80 days.
>>>
>>> server kernel: [7572666.186852] asterisk[3673]:
>>> segfault at 10 ip 7f3b8e90b4aa sp 40bf5f00 error 4 in l
>>> ibpthread-2.7.so[7f3b8e903000+16000]
>>>
>>> Anything what can be done to find out the reason?
>>
>> My asterisk 1.4.23 also dies about once a month.  I've never been able
>> to work out why.
>>
> I haven't seen this, but it is definitely something we should try to catch. It could be a memory leak or another type of leak. Any advice from other developers on how to try to catch this?
>
> One thing that would be good would be to get a core dump. There's a document in the /doc directory on how to recompile Asterisk with symbols and force a core dump to happen when we get a crash.
>
> /O

Just start it with safe_asterisk.

http://linux.die.net/man/8/safe_asterisk

Unless my info is out of date, it will kill two birds with one stone.
Asterisk will restart itself, and you will get a core dump.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro