asterisk users - Jun 2011 - "pickupsound = beep" kills call pickup in Asterisk 1.8.4.2

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

This has been fixed only last month, see
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18654 and try bug18654.diff.txt
That will avoid the deadlock, but it's not the proper fix, there are other
issues that could trip you up,
mainly to do with race conditions with multiple channels picking up the same
ringing extensions.

Alec Davis




> -----Original Message-----
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> Sebastian Arcus
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:10 a.m.
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] "pickupsound = beep" kills call 
> pickup in Asterisk1.8.4.2
> 
> 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
> 
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> 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