[asterisk-users] "pickupsound = beep" kills call pickup in Asterisk 1.8.4.2

[Richard Mudgett]

> I have discovered that if I enable pickupsound = beep in
> features.conf,
> if I try to do a pickup with *8, the calling channel keeps on ringing,
> while the phone where I pick-up from shows that the call has been
> answered (I don't know where though). Also, it seems to completely
> bugger up my outgoing IAX trunk (I really can't see the connection, as
> I'm doing pick-up for a SIP channel). I can only shut Asterisk down
> with
> killall asterisk -s9 - nothing else works.
> 
> I've tried starting the console with asterisk -rvvvvvv - but there is
> nothing unusual there.
> 
> Could someone please confirm this behaviour on their box, before I go
> and submit a bug - in case I am doing something wrong?
> 
> As soon as I comment out "pickupsound = beep" - everything works just
> fine and I can do call pickup with *8.
> 
> Sebastian

I think this problem is already fixed in the SVN 1.8 branch.
See https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-17264

Richard