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

[Jared Baxley]

Resolved... Thanks to Digium for pointing out I installed a buggy module...
My tired eyes though 1.8.14 was 1.8.1.4 ... Good night all.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:35 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 ?
>
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