[asterisk-users] SoftHangup on asterisk 1.8.3.2 (renamed)

[Ishfaq Malik]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 09:13 +0100, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 14:23 -0400, Jeremy Kister wrote:
> > On 7/7/2011 9:32 AM, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> > > I'm having the same issue on 1.8.3.2 (with a couple of patches)
> > 
> > >>  exten =>  s,1,Set(CHAN=${SHELL(asterisk -rx "core show channels" |  awk
> > >>  '/^SIP\/vgw1-/ { print $1 }' | head -1)})
> > 
> > 
> > This turned out to be a PEBKAC error.  A newline was attached to the 
> > $CHAN variable.
> > 
> > adding | tr -d '\n' to the end of the command fixed it right up.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well in that case I'm having a different issue.
> When I do
> channel request hangup SIP/xxxxxxxx-00001136
> I get a 
> Requested Hangup on channel 'SIP/xxxxxxxx-00001136'
> response but the channel never hangs up
> I'm having to restart the asterisk to clear the channels and that is not
> an optimum solution!
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this or can see something obvious that I'm
> doing wrong?
> 

Worked out what was happening. I was trying to hangup stale channels. As
a stale channel is not being written to or read from the hangup will
never execute.

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Ishfaq Malik
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