[asterisk-users] Avoiding deadlock

[Chad Wallace]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:08:45 +0000
Vilius Adamkavicius <vilius.adamkavicius at invade.net> wrote:

> For some reason we are seeing "Avoiding deadlock for channel" in our
> Asterisk logs, the logs are getting filled up with an amazing speed
> around 12000 lines a second, and all of them are "Avoiding deadlock".
> What could be the potential reason for this to be happening? The
> Asterisk is used as auto dialler, therefore different channel types
> are involved SIP, DAHDI, Local's.
> 
> [Nov 15 14:20:01] DEBUG[21740] channel.c: Avoiding deadlock for
> channel '0x9f17c88'

Turn off debugging.

On the asterisk CLI, run this command:

core set debug 0


Also, check the command line in your init script, or however you run
asterisk, and if there is a -d option, remove it.  Otherwise, debugging
will come back on next time you restart asterisk.