[Asterisk-Users] RE: MeetMe freezes machine with Junghanns

[BJ Weschke]

On 3/23/06, Brent Torrenga <lists at torrenga.com> wrote:
> Dollars to donuts it is related to these two posts, but no one seems to know
> where or why it happens - this issue doesn't seem to be related to one
> specific piece of hardware:
>
> Post 1)
>
> *********************************************************
> Anyone ever seen MeetMe cause * to crash? Specifically, it happens
> consistantly if someone begins to enter a conference and then decides to
> hangup while Allison is introducing them - like playing back
> "conf-onlyperson". This has been seen with the MeetMe participant connecting
> via IAX and SIP (not saying it doesn't happen with Zap, just that I haven't
> seen it).
>
> The box is * 1.2.5, Zaptel 1.2.4, a TDM400P loaded with 3xFXO cards,
> Mandriva 2006 Free.
>
> Symptoms of the crash: once the participant hangs up, the CLI seems to
> freeze. One more call instance can be initiated, and the system will seize
> within seconds (for instance, an audio prompt will deteriorate and then stop
> dead). This behavior reminds me of the memory leak issue and time bomb bug,
> perhaps they do the same damage as this.
>
> Solution right now is to disable MeetMe, which isn't a solution as much as
> an amputation. Anyways, here is the CLI output, note the WARNING:
>
> alpha*CLI>
> -- Executing Goto("SIP/Brent_ring-4473", "conferences|900|1") in new stack
> -- Goto (conferences,900,1)
> -- Executing MeetMe("SIP/Brent_ring-4473", "900|sMi|1234") in new stack ==
> Parsing '/etc/asterisk/meetme.conf': Found
> -- Created MeetMe conference 1023 for conference '900'
> -- Recording
> -- Playing 'vm-rec-name' (language 'en') Mar 15 16:44:38 WARNING[24014]:
> file.cL584 ast_readaudio_callback: Failed to write frame
> -- Playing 'conf-onlyperson' (language 'en') Alpha*CLI>
> *********************************************************
>
> Post 2)
>
> *********************************************************
> Thank you for the hint. Now finaly I can 100% reproduce the problem. Yes, if
> I hang up during Playing 'conf-onlyperson' my machine freezes. It's not a
> GSM Enconding problem as I suspected first, this happens with every
> encoding.
>
> magma*CLI>
>    -- Executing Answer("SIP/11-9d7c", "") in new stack
>    -- Executing MeetMe("SIP/11-9d7c", "555") in new stack
>    -- Created MeetMe conference 1023 for conference '555'
>    -- Playing 'conf-onlyperson' (language 'de') magma*CLI>
>
> Freeze!
>

 There's been two very recent commits (one less than an hour ago) that
may very well correct your issues.

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