On Nov 2, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Michael Keuter wrote:

>> Michael Keuter wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> since upgrading from Astlinux 0.4.8 to 0.6.1 on my Soekris net4801
>>> with 266MHz + 256 MB RAM (connected with an 1-port HFC-ISDN-card  
>>> to a
>>> legacy PBX) I have the problem, that the Asterisk application  
>>> crashes
>>> once or twice a week. Mostly when no call or application is active.
>>> Linux is then still runnibg normally. When I restart the Asterisk
>>> service with "/etc/init.d/asterisk restart" everything works again.
>>> Sometimes I noticed the the crash a few hours later. I got no useful
>>> help in the log files. When the box is idle I have 116 MB RAM free.
>>>
>>> With 0.4.8 I had such crashes only once a month and it seemed that
>>> Linux also crashed, cause the watchdog rebooted the box.
>>>
>>> Any advice how to debug such crashes?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>> I'm not using a net4801, but I've not seen Asterisk crash in this  
>> manner
>> on any of the boxes that I'm running Astlinux.  Which specific  
>> Asterisk
>> app_XX modules are being used?  Since you were having issues with
>> Asterisk crashing the box before, I would suspect the hardware  
>> itself.
>> Do you have another net4801 you could test with?
>>
>> Darrick
>
> Hi Darrick,
>
> I did not change the standard modules.conf, I'm
> using MISDN for the HFC card. No I don't have
> another net4801. The problem now is: the box
> doesn't reboot itself. With 0.4.8 it rebooted. Is
> there anything I can to trigger the watchdog to
> reboot Astlinux when Asterisk is not alive?
>
> For testing purposes I now ran a cron script
> every 10 min. which writes a few values to a
> Log-file:

Michael,

For testing, you might try setting "PERSISTLOG=yes"

##Persistent Logs
##If this variable is defined, logs are saved to the keydisk instead  
of RAM
#PERSISTLOG=yes

I have not used this feature, but it might help.

Also, if you could somehow do a memory test...

Lonnie


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