My asterisk suddenly died in ast_verbose, called from app_dial... leaving a core which told me the following: (gdb) where #0 0x4011a7c3 in chunk_free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4011a548 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x080529fa in ast_verbose () #3 0x40493b76 in wait_for_answer (in=0x811f8d0, outgoing=0x81154e0, to=0xbcdff094, allowredir_in=0xbcdff098, allowredir_out=0xbcdff09c, allowdisconnect=0xbcdff0a0) at app_dial.c:322 #4 0x40494a3a in dial_exec (chan=0x811f8d0, data=0xbcdff77c) at app_dial.c:619 #5 0x08061666 in pbx_exec () #6 0x0806324a in pbx_extension_helper () #7 0x08063eee in ast_pbx_run () #8 0x08069dbf in pbx_thread () #9 0x40023f77 in pthread_start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 This is on RedHat 7.3, using CVS of 7 october 2003 The log around the crash time shows: Oct 27 12:57:23 WARNING[65556]: File ast_expr.y, Line 346 (ast_yyerror): ast_yyerror(): syntax error: parse error Oct 27 12:58:15 WARNING[67604]: File chan_zap.c, Line 3331 (zt_read): zt_rec: Unknown error 500 Oct 27 12:58:15 WARNING[67604]: File chan_zap.c, Line 3331 (zt_read): zt_rec: Unknown error 500 Oct 27 12:58:56 WARNING[67604]: File ast_expr.y, Line 346 (ast_yyerror): ast_yyerror(): syntax error: parse error Any ideas??