[Asterisk-Users] Weird, weird, weird thing with my Asterisk box...

[Barclay McInnes]

I've been banging my head into a wall over this one...
Yesterday, we had a big fire down the block, so the city chopped the 
power to our whole block for a few hours, and the Asterisk box didn't 
shut down properly, just died when the UPS ran out.  So I power it back 
up when I got in, and everything seemed to check out OK, except that 
when I dialed in to the system, or tried to connect to the voicemail, 
all of the audio was incredibly distorted.  Dialing in on one of the 
X100P cards, the greeting sounded like a bunch of high pitched squeaks 
heard down a long tube, and the voicemail over a SIP client was so 
choppy that the word choppy barely describes it properly.
I tested dialing on all 3 of our X100P cards just to ensure it wasn't a 
hardware problem, but that wouldn't have affected SIPs anyway.  The 
other thing was on a dialin from the PSTN it was taking 4 rings to pick 
up, where it normally picks up after 1.  I restarted the box again, I 
recompiled Asterisk and all drivers in case it was something screwy in 
one of the binaries when the power died, all to no avail.  I went over 
all the config files repeatedly in case I missed something, and the 
console never spit out errors.
I finally gave up on it last night, and then came back in today to work 
on it again.  I fired up Asterisk about 20 minutes ago, and *without 
changing anything*, it all works fine now.

Any ideas as to what the <censored> that was all about?

I'd really like to know or at least have an idea becuase if it happened 
once.....


Thanks
Barclay McInnes