Rich Adamson wrote:
The problem isn't that asterisk isn't running, it's that asterisk is
not responding. When asterisk is in this funky state, I can still run
"asterisk -vvvvr" from the command line and get access to the CLI.
While in the CLI, the only command that asterisk will respond to is
"exit" which drops me back to the shell. If I try to issue a "stop
now", asterisk just immediately returns to the CLI> prompt. It does
this for every single command, except for "exit".
So, simply respawning asterisk, or checking to see if it's running
isn't good enough, because asterisk is indeed running. We need to
access asterisk and issue a command, and see if asterisk responds
appropriately. If not, we can assume it has died, and we can kill it
off (killall -9 asterisk) and then start it back up again (or reboot
the whole server if necessary).
Yes, it's an odd problem, but I've noticed it so I can confirm it is a
state asterisk can get into, and can confirm its symptoms. Hopefully
all that is over with now after I upgraded (also fyi, I also moved my
x101p around so it'd get its own irq, so it's possible that was the
problem, though I doubt it). If it turns out I still have the
problem, I'll probably whip up a script to check asterisk's condition
and restart if needed.
Joseph Tanner
Do you happen to have TDM400 cards in your system? I have learned to set
up any machine with TDM400 cards to do a nightly auto-reboot. If we
don't, they will eventually exhibit behaviour identical to what you
describe above.
Better RMA your tdm400 card then. Have multiple boxes with these cards
that function for many weeks, and their uptime is only limited due to
changes that are made about once per month or so.
Well, we have 15+ systems with 2 TDM04B cards each that have pretty much
all have exhibited this behaviour. Some of them would go for weeks but
all eventually succumbed. We do the auto-reboot on those now and
switched to Sangoma A200D for all new systems.
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