[asterisk-users] Error: astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object

[Michael L. Young]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ishfaq Malik" <ish at pack-net.co.uk>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:05:21 AM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Error: astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm using 1.8.7.0. This morning I got an alert telling me
> 
> Asterisk on <my-host> exited on signal 11.  Might want to take a
> peek.
> 
> When I had a look at the logs I can see a lot of errors like
> 
> ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object 0x2aaad4069068
> ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -2 on object 0x2aaad4069068
> 
> All the way up to
> 
> ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -2004 on object 0x2aaad4069068
> 
> Everything up to this point was completely normal.
> 
> Does anyone know what this error means and what causes it?

I would recommend updating to the latest version.  We are up to 1.8.18 and 1.8.19 is around the corner.  There have been a lot of bug fixes and you might find that whatever caused this issue is already fixed.

Michael
(elguero)