asterisk users - May 2003 - Asterisk stops working for no apparent reason :-(

Hi All...

I have been having a recurring problem with * for several weeks now.  I am 
using it with two ATA186 devices configured for SIP.  There is a USB zaptel 
device plugged in but to the PC but no phone is plugged into it.

I have two X100P cards, each with a phone line.

About once each day, * will just decide to stop answering calls from the 
phone lines or from an extension.  The * process is still running.  I can 
kill it and restart it, and * begins working normally again.

This is becoming a serious problem so I have 2 questions.

1 - Is there any way to fix or at least diagnose this?

2 - Is there any way to check from another process to see if * is still 
running so I can working so I can kill it and restart it if it is not? 
Such a thing might be a regular output to a log file, answering on a port, 
something like that.

Thanks!

Jim

We can attach gdb to it to see where it's hanging.  Find me on irc and I
can ssh in and do it.

Mark

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Jim Archer wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> I have been having a recurring problem with * for several weeks now.  I am
> using it with two ATA186 devices configured for SIP.  There is a USB zaptel
> device plugged in but to the PC but no phone is plugged into it.
>
> I have two X100P cards, each with a phone line.
>
> About once each day, * will just decide to stop answering calls from the
> phone lines or from an extension.  The * process is still running.  I can
> kill it and restart it, and * begins working normally again.
>
> This is becoming a serious problem so I have 2 questions.
>
> 1 - Is there any way to fix or at least diagnose this?
>
> 2 - Is there any way to check from another process to see if * is still
> running so I can working so I can kill it and restart it if it is not?
> Such a thing might be a regular output to a log file, answering on a port,
> something like that.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
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