[asterisk-users] Asterisk stops responding

[Tom Rymes]

On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Carlos Chavez wrote:

>     The problem is that Asterisk simply stops responding.  No calls in or out
> and you cannot even get to the CLI.  The process seems to be running but there
> is simple no activity.  All I see in the log files is:
> 
> [Jan 14 16:30:46] WARNING[20747] pbx.c: Failed to create new channel thread
> [Jan 14 16:30:46] WARNING[20747] chan_sip.c: Failed to start PBX :(
> [Jan 14 16:30:47] WARNING[20745] pbx.c: Failed to create new channel thread
> [Jan 14 16:30:47] WARNING[20745] chan_dahdi.c: Unable to start PBX on DAHDI/29-1
> 
>     After restarting Asterisk everything is back to normal.  The time between
> the first failure and the second was almost a month, between the second and
> third a few days.  

Carlos,

What is in the logs immediately preceding the warning you have posted here? Scan up a number of lines (more if you have a very verbose installation, like FreePBX) and see if anything pops out at you. Basically, you want to figure out what was happening on the server at the time of the crash? Incoming fax? Hangup of a Dahdi channel? Incoming Dahdi call, etc.

That will likely point you in the right direction.

Tom