asterisk users - Jul 2011 - *8 causing large number of channels to go stale (possible bug)

Hi

We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 with the patch from issue 18818

Were finding a high incidence of channels staying open after the call
has finished when the call has been picked up using *8

I know there has been an issue with parking calls in 1.8, could this be
related?

our features.conf has everything commented apart from the following
lines

parkext => 700                  ; What extension to dial to park
parkpos => 701-720              ; What extensions to park calls on.
(defafult parking lot)
                                ; These needs to be numeric, as Asterisk
starts from the start position
                                ; and increments with one for the next
parked call.
context => parkedcalls          ; Which context parked calls are in
(default parking lot)

The caveat to the above is that it doesn't always happen when a call has
been picked up using *8 but all of the stale channels I have seen so far
have been picked up using *8

It would be interesting to see if anyone can replicate this.

Thanks

Ish
-- 
Ishfaq Malik
Software Developer
PackNet Ltd

Office:   0161 660 3062

Please ignore, I should have looked at issues.asterisk.org first

https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18654

Apologies

Ish

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 09:03 +0100, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 with the patch from issue 18818
> 
> Were finding a high incidence of channels staying open after the call
> has finished when the call has been picked up using *8
> 
> I know there has been an issue with parking calls in 1.8, could this be
> related?
> 
> our features.conf has everything commented apart from the following
> lines
> 
> parkext => 700                  ; What extension to dial to park
> parkpos => 701-720              ; What extensions to park calls on.
> (defafult parking lot)
>                                 ; These needs to be numeric, as Asterisk
> starts from the start position
>                                 ; and increments with one for the next
> parked call.
> context => parkedcalls          ; Which context parked calls are in
> (default parking lot)
> 
> The caveat to the above is that it doesn't always happen when a call
has
> been picked up using *8 but all of the stale channels I have seen so far
> have been picked up using *8
> 
> It would be interesting to see if anyone can replicate this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ish
-- 
Ishfaq Malik
Software Developer
PackNet Ltd

Office:   0161 660 3062

Most *8 pickup issues have been fixed in trunk. May have made it into 1.8.5,
I'm not sure.

https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=18654 and others search mantis for
closed issues and 'pickup'.
Or newer https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Alec Davis


 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Ishfaq Malik
> Sent: Friday, 15 July 2011 8:03 p.m.
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] *8 causing large number of channels 
> to go stale(possible bug)
> 
> Hi
> 
> We're using asterisk 1.8.3.2 with the patch from issue 18818
> 
> Were finding a high incidence of channels staying open after 
> the call has finished when the call has been picked up using *8
> 
> I know there has been an issue with parking calls in 1.8, 
> could this be related?
> 
> our features.conf has everything commented apart from the 
> following lines
> 
> parkext => 700                  ; What extension to dial to park
> parkpos => 701-720              ; What extensions to park calls on.
> (defafult parking lot)
>                                 ; These needs to be numeric, 
> as Asterisk starts from the start position
>                                 ; and increments with one for 
> the next parked call.
> context => parkedcalls          ; Which context parked calls are in
> (default parking lot)
> 
> The caveat to the above is that it doesn't always happen when 
> a call has been picked up using *8 but all of the stale 
> channels I have seen so far have been picked up using *8
> 
> It would be interesting to see if anyone can replicate this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ish
> --
> Ishfaq Malik
> Software Developer
> PackNet Ltd
> 
> Office:   0161 660 3062
> 
> 
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