[Asterisk-Users] WG: App_rxfax problem

[Rich Adamson]

> > > Ouch ... error while writing audio data: : Broken pipe
> >
> > If you are talking about the Ouch message, yes lots of people have seen
> > the error and its usually the result of some misconfiguration in one of
> > your files (likely zapata.conf).
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that message from mpg123 itself? It
> appears in the binary (via strings), and I've seen it at non-asterisk
> times too. AFAIK it comes up whenever the parent application (asterisk
> in this case) quits without closing it properly (hence, "broken
> pipe").
> 
> As such, this means that the above error simply shows that asterisk
> crashed (which they presumably already knew), and has nothing to do
> with the problem itself...

The above is one case, however there are lots of other cases where
asterisk is still running, the Ouch messages continuously scrolls, and
killing asterisk with a -9 becomes necessary. Try misconfiguring a
PRI and see what you get. ;)

Rich