[asterisk-users] How to Hang up a stale SIP channel?

[Mark Deneen]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Ishfaq Malik <ish at pack-net.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 and are finding incidences of stale
> channels remaining after both parties have hung up. We have tried to
> hang the channel up using
>
> channel request hangup
>
> But by it's definition, it will not work as it only executes the hangup
> as soon as the the channel is written to or read from but as the channel
> is stale, it will not be written to or read from so the command will not
> instigate the hangup.
>
> Does anyone know of any way we can hangup a stale channel via the
> console?
>

I've had this happen a few times, but with 1.6.2.  I ended up writing
.call files to the asterisk spool directory instructing it to hang up
a particular sip channel.

-M