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...ry asterisk -rnx "show locks" > /locks.txt If that does not work than your CLI process is completely gone and you are done. I have bumped into these kind of CLI locks and it really sucks. I have written a program to monitor for them and kill the asterisk process if they occur then asterisk_safe will automatically start a new instance. It does not happen for me very often may be once ever six month or so but on production boxes a 30 sec outage is better than a long term lockup. I am on an asterisk 1.8.x box (not current trunk yet) I had a lot more issues with this when running 1.6.2...

...# cat /etc/sysconfig/asterisk AST_USER=asterisk AST_GROUP=asterisk # grep 97 /etc/passwd asterisk:x:97:97:Asterisk_System_User:/home/asterisk:/sbin/nologin # grep 97 /etc/group asterisk:x:97: If I run asterisk with "service asterisk start" i have two processes running, asterisk and asterisk_safe: # ps aux | grep asterisk root 16946 0.0 0.0 4624 544 pts/2 S 11:07 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk asterisk 16956 0.4 11.4 139472 118060 pts/2 Sl 11:07 0:01 /usr/sbin/asterisk -f -U asterisk -G asterisk -vvvg -c If I start asterisk as ro...

HI, I tried to configure Asterisk 1.8 on one of my test-hosts. I've installed from centos-asterisk.repo (http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/$releasever/tested/$basearch/): Nov 26 15:34:56 Installed: asterisk-sounds-core-en-gsm-1.4.20-1_centos5.noarch Nov 26 15:34:59 Installed: asterisk18-core-1.8.0-1_centos5.i386 Nov 26 15:35:02 Installed: asterisk18-voicemail-1.8.0-1_centos5.i386 Nov 26