[asterisk-users] Critical Asterisk Outage - Installing g729 crashed asterisk.

[Jared Baxley]

Buggy module. I mis-read. and downloaded the one for pre 1.8.4


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Steve Totaro <
stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Steve Totaro <
> stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Jared Baxley <jared.baxley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I was following Digium's instructions to the letter to install g729. but
>>> upon telling asterisk to load the module, the system hung.
>>>
>>> after a few minutes later a CTRL-C and attempted to run the command
>>> again. Same result. any g729 show command returns nothing... no error no
>>> results.
>>>
>>> Reboot the server and asterisk will not process calls. Freepbx shows the
>>> following.
>>>
>>> [2012-Oct-18 01:21:04] [INFO] (bin/retrieve_conf:109) - found language
>>> dir fr for directory, not installed on system, skipping
>>> [2012-Oct-18 01:21:07] [FATAL] (libraries/utility.functions.php:429) -
>>> retreive_conf failed to get engine information and cannot configure up a
>>> softwitch with out it. Error: ERROR-UNABLE-TO-PARSE
>>> [2012-Oct-18 01:21:07] [CRITICAL] (admin/functions.inc.php:366) -
>>> [NOTIFICATION]-[freepbx]-[RCONFFAIL] - retrieve_conf failed, config not
>>> applied
>>>
>>> This seems to indicate that the g729 module is working
>>>
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: G.729A transcoding
>>> module version 1.8.0_3.1.5, Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Digium, Inc.
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: This module is
>>> supplied under a commercial license granted by Digium, Inc.
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: Please see the full
>>> license text supplied by the accompanying
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: "register" utility, or
>>> ask for a copy from Digium.
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: This product includes
>>> software developed by the OpenSSL Project
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: for use in the OpenSSL
>>> Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] NOTICE[4717] codec_g729a.c: Copyright (C)
>>> 1998-2006 The OpenSSL Project
>>>
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] VERBOSE[4717] manager.c: == Manager registered
>>> action G729LicenseStatus
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] VERBOSE[4717] manager.c: == Manager registered
>>> action G729LicenseList
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] VERBOSE[4717] codec_g729a.c: == Host-ID:
>>> 60:b6:d3:a0:c9:be:6e:46:74:41:07:b3:8e:76:59:b1:ba:5c:59:05
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] VERBOSE[4717] codec_g729a.c: == Found license
>>> 'G729-XXXXXXXXXXX' providing 40 channels
>>> [2012-10-18 01:21:04] VERBOSE[4717] codec_g729a.c: == Found total of 40
>>> G.729 licenses
>>>
>>> How do i roll this back? Just delete codec_g729a.so ?
>>>
>>>
>> You can do a noload in modules.conf.  This doesn't appear to be the
>> problem though.  It may be.  Did you try saving a change in FreePBX and
>> applying it?
>>
>> It seems more like a FreePBX config error that should be overwritten by
>> FreePBX database to flat files.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Totaro
>>
>
> See here
> http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/users/apply-configuration-changes-errors-with-failed-to-get-engine-info-retreive-conf
>
> Very similar problem with FreePBX, your G729 looks fine.
>
> Check permissions and ownership of any files you changed.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
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