asterisk users - Nov 2012 - Error: astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object

Hi

I'm using 1.8.7.0. This morning I got an alert telling me 

Asterisk on <my-host> exited on signal 11.  Might want to take a peek.

When I had a look at the logs I can see a lot of errors like

ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object 0x2aaad4069068
ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -2 on object 0x2aaad4069068

All the way up to

ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -2004 on object 0x2aaad4069068

Everything up to this point was completely normal.

Does anyone know what this error means and what causes it?

Regards

Ish
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ishfaq Malik" <ish at pack-net.co.uk>
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:05:21 AM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Error: astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm using 1.8.7.0. This morning I got an alert telling me
> 
> Asterisk on <my-host> exited on signal 11.  Might want to take a
> peek.
> 
> When I had a look at the logs I can see a lot of errors like
> 
> ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -1 on object 0x2aaad4069068
> ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -2 on object 0x2aaad4069068
> 
> All the way up to
> 
> ERROR[14924] astobj2.c: refcount -2004 on object 0x2aaad4069068
> 
> Everything up to this point was completely normal.
> 
> Does anyone know what this error means and what causes it?
I would recommend updating to the latest version.  We are up to 1.8.18 and
1.8.19 is around the corner.  There have been a lot of bug fixes and you might
find that whatever caused this issue is already fixed.

Michael
(elguero)