asterisk users - Jul 2011 - How to Hang up a stale SIP channel?

Hi

We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 and are finding incidences of stale
channels remaining after both parties have hung up. We have tried to
hang the channel up using 

channel request hangup

But by it's definition, it will not work as it only executes the hangup
as soon as the the channel is written to or read from but as the channel
is stale, it will not be written to or read from so the command will not
instigate the hangup.

Does anyone know of any way we can hangup a stale channel via the
console?

Thanks in Advance

Ish
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Ishfaq Malik
Software Developer
PackNet Ltd

Office:   0161 660 3062

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Ishfaq Malik <ish at pack-net.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 and are finding incidences of stale
> channels remaining after both parties have hung up. We have tried to
> hang the channel up using
>
> channel request hangup
>
> But by it's definition, it will not work as it only executes the hangup
> as soon as the the channel is written to or read from but as the channel
> is stale, it will not be written to or read from so the command will not
> instigate the hangup.
>
> Does anyone know of any way we can hangup a stale channel via the
> console?
>
I've had this happen a few times, but with 1.6.2.  I ended up writing
.call files to the asterisk spool directory instructing it to hang up
a particular sip channel.

-M