[asterisk-users] *8 causing large number of channels to go stale (possible bug)

[Ishfaq Malik]

Hi

We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 with the patch from issue 18818

Were finding a high incidence of channels staying open after the call
has finished when the call has been picked up using *8

I know there has been an issue with parking calls in 1.8, could this be
related?

our features.conf has everything commented apart from the following
lines

parkext => 700                  ; What extension to dial to park
parkpos => 701-720              ; What extensions to park calls on.
(defafult parking lot)
                                ; These needs to be numeric, as Asterisk
starts from the start position
                                ; and increments with one for the next
parked call.
context => parkedcalls          ; Which context parked calls are in
(default parking lot)

The caveat to the above is that it doesn't always happen when a call has
been picked up using *8 but all of the stale channels I have seen so far
have been picked up using *8

It would be interesting to see if anyone can replicate this.

Thanks

Ish
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Ishfaq Malik
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