asterisk users - Mar 2005 - "restart gracefully" fails

Dear Asterisk Users,

if I do a : /usr/sbin/asterisk -r -x "restart gracefully" , asterisk 
just quits without any message. Any idea ?


(debian 3.1 with asterisk packages from unstable : 
1.0.7-BRIstuffed-0.2.0-RC7k)


/sebastian