[asterisk-users] * Waiting for asterisk to shutdown .............

[Joseph]

I'm running asterisk on a small box, Intel-R-_Atom-TM-_CPU_330_ at _1.60GHz
and when I try to restart the asterisk it fails.

/etc/init.d/asterisk restart
  * Caching service dependencies ...           [ ok ]
  * Killing wrapper script ...                 [ ok ]
  * Stopping asterisk PBX gracefully ...

* Waiting for asterisk to shutdown .............................................................
  * Failed.

When I run /etc/init.d/asterisk status
I get: "* status: started"

At this point I have to kill the process ID
"zap" it (/etc/init.d/asterisk zap)
and restart it.

Why asteriks can not shut down properly?
How can I monitor this process and restart it?

-- 
Joseph