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

[Ishfaq Malik]

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 05:27 -0800, Michael L. Young wrote:
> ----- 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)
> 

Hi

Thanks for the advice but that's not really a quick and easy option for
us. We would not be able to upgrade to another version without doing
full regression testing on the candidate upgrade version and we've been
using this version for at least half a year and this is the first time
we've had this crash and this error.

Also, just upgrading doesn't enlighten me to what is going on to cause
this error.

Regards

Ish

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