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

[Michael L. Young]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph" <syscon780 at gmail.com>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 12:54:12 AM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] * Waiting for asterisk to shutdown .............
> 
> 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?

What version of Asterisk are you running?

Michael
(elguero)