asterisk users - Mar 2007 - G729 'disappears' randomly

All,

I have around 10 opteron 165 servers all running Fedora Core 5 and Asterisk
1.2.x (mostly Asterisk 1.2.16) with 15-25 channels of g729 each. They
register without any problem but I had to use the codec_g729.so
corresponding to the i386 version in all of them (asterisk would not start
if i tried the opteron specific one).

The problem: In one of the servers, we seem to lose the registration after a
restart - 'show g729' simply does not work! A restart (or two!) of the
server after that and things seem fine and show g729 shows the correct
number of channels registered. This happens fairly randomly and have no clue
why this happens only on this one machine. What we've tried:
1. permissions on codec_g729a.so - they seem fine
2. overwriting the .so file and restarting asterisk - doesn't work
3. restarting asterisk a few times - doesn't work
4. permissions on .lic file - they seem fine

but none of the above seem to work. The only resolution seems to be to keep
our fingers crossed while we restart the server!

Ideas / thoughts more than welcome!

thanks
rajeev
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More info:
It happened again this evening  and when I checked the host-id in
/var/log/asterisk/messages the time when it did not register, it showed a
host-id
Mar 22 18:14:48 VERBOSE[2586] logger.c:   == G.729 Host-ID:
90:23:3a:b7:dc:46:88:fc:cf:bb:78:a2:b8:00:75:97:34:xx:xx:xx (removing the
last 6 for security) and it did not load the g729

So did a restart and voila!
Mar 22 18:43:18 VERBOSE[2580] logger.c:   == G.729 Host-ID:
05:e5:4b:6c:0d:8b:66:fd:7a:b5:8e:a6:23:73:0b:b1:66:xx:xx:xx WORKS perfectly

Any clues on why the host-id changes?

IDEA: I also notice that sometimes eth0,eth1 and eth2 (Yes: i have three
network interfaces) interchange on reboot. Are they related?


thanks
rajeev


On 3/22/07, Rajeev Natarajan <twogigbox@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I have around 10 opteron 165 servers all running Fedora Core 5 and
> Asterisk 1.2.x (mostly Asterisk 1.2.16) with 15-25 channels of g729 each.
> They register without any problem but I had to use the codec_g729.so
> corresponding to the i386 version in all of them (asterisk would not start
> if i tried the opteron specific one).
>
> The problem: In one of the servers, we seem to lose the registration after
> a restart - 'show g729' simply does not work! A restart (or two!)
of the
> server after that and things seem fine and show g729 shows the correct
> number of channels registered. This happens fairly randomly and have no
clue
> why this happens only on this one machine. What we've tried:
> 1. permissions on codec_g729a.so - they seem fine
> 2. overwriting the .so file and restarting asterisk - doesn't work
> 3. restarting asterisk a few times - doesn't work
> 4. permissions on .lic file - they seem fine
>
> but none of the above seem to work. The only resolution seems to be to
> keep our fingers crossed while we restart the server!
>
> Ideas / thoughts more than welcome!
>
> thanks
> rajeev
>
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