asterisk users - Aug 2008 - Asterisk Stops...where to look?

Hi,

?I am running Asterisk 1.4.21.2? on Fedora Core 2. Looks like The Asterisk
Process dies after a few hours...I have full debugging turned on but file
/var/log/asterisk/full does not show anything specifc..neither does
var/log/messages..

dmesg also shows nothing specific to Asterisk dying/corring...Where does
Asterisk dump core files if it cores..Any other pointers on where to look would
be helpful...

Thx..



      
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Jay Ray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I am running Asterisk 1.4.21.2  on Fedora Core 2. Looks like The 
> Asterisk Process dies after a few hours...I have full debugging turned 
> on but file /var/log/asterisk/full does not show anything 
> specifc..neither does var/log/messages..
> 
> dmesg also shows nothing specific to Asterisk dying/corring...Where does 
> Asterisk dump core files if it cores..Any other pointers on where to 
> look would be helpful...
> 
> Thx..
Asterisk will typically dump core to the directory from which it is run, 
assuming that it was run with the -g flag at startup. Some of the startup 
scripts provided for Asterisk, including safe_asterisk, will dump core to /tmp.

Also, Fedora Core 2?! Ouch! ;)

Mark Michelson

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Mark Michelson <mmichelson at digium.com>
wrote:
> Jay Ray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I am running Asterisk 1.4.21.2  on Fedora Core 2. Looks like The
>> Asterisk Process dies after a few hours...I have full debugging turned
>> on but file /var/log/asterisk/full does not show anything
>> specifc..neither does var/log/messages..
>>
>> dmesg also shows nothing specific to Asterisk dying/corring...Where
does
>> Asterisk dump core files if it cores..Any other pointers on where to
>> look would be helpful...
>>
>> Thx..
>
> Asterisk will typically dump core to the directory from which it is run,
> assuming that it was run with the -g flag at startup. Some of the startup
> scripts provided for Asterisk, including safe_asterisk, will dump core to
/tmp.
>
> Also, Fedora Core 2?! Ouch! ;)
>
> Mark Michelson
>
I have to second the FC2 sentiment, when was that EOLed?  Why not load
up CentOS 5 or whatever?

As Mark referenced and a good suggestion for your situation is to use
safe_asterisk to invoke Asterisk.

That way you get a core dump by default in /tmp AND Asterisk will
pretty much instantly restart itself.  Sure your calls will drop but
at least Asterisk will be up and running a moment later, giving you
more uptime and time to GDB your core dump.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro