asterisk users - May 2005 - Asterisk Crashing; Not getting Core dumps

This is frustrating. Asterisk has crashed now twice today and neither crash
has produced a core file. My ulimit is unlimited.

I'm using safe_asterisk so asterisk is restarting immediatly, but how the
hell am I suposed to find out wtf happened with no core file? Debug log
doesn't say anything either.

AGRHHHHHHHH

-Matthew

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Matthew Boehm wrote:
>This is frustrating. Asterisk has crashed now twice today and neither crash
>has produced a core file. My ulimit is unlimited.
>
>I'm using safe_asterisk so asterisk is restarting immediatly, but how
the
>hell am I suposed to find out wtf happened with no core file? Debug log
>doesn't say anything either.
>
>AGRHHHHHHHH
>
>-Matthew
>
>  
>
Turn on debugging in asterisk. It will write more to the log files.
JD

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Check your home folder and /tmp/

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Checked. None.

-Matthew

> From: Matt Riddell <matt.riddell@sineapps.com>
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> Check your home folder and /tmp/
> 
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> 
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Which version of asterisk, 1.0x or HEAD (unstable)?

My box is running cvs of the day before yesterday and it segfaults every 
20 minutes or so....


On Wed, 25 May 2005, Matthew Boehm wrote:
> This is frustrating. Asterisk has crashed now twice today and neither crash
> has produced a core file. My ulimit is unlimited.
>
> I'm using safe_asterisk so asterisk is restarting immediatly, but how
the
> hell am I suposed to find out wtf happened with no core file? Debug log
> doesn't say anything either.
>
> AGRHHHHHHHH
>
> -Matthew
>
>

In article <025a01c5616b$dde89790$3400000a@cytelcom.com>,
Matthew Boehm <mboehm@cytelcom.com> wrote:
> This is frustrating. Asterisk has crashed now twice today and neither crash
> has produced a core file. My ulimit is unlimited.
> 
> I'm using safe_asterisk so asterisk is restarting immediatly, but how
the
> hell am I suposed to find out wtf happened with no core file? Debug log
> doesn't say anything either.
This happened to me the other week too.

Do a ps -ef and see if safe_asterisk is still running. It probably isn't.
The reason is that if asterisk is run without the -c or -f options, it
forks itself into the background, and the original invocation immediately
returns to safe_asterisk with a normal exit status.

Modify /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk so it says TTY=9 and CONSOLE=yes, which
will turn on the -c option. You should find that it then keeps coredumps
in the DUMPDROP directory, which defaults to /tmp, but could usefully be
changed to /var/log/asterisk.

Cheers
Tony
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