[App_rpt-users] Dial Watchdog Function

Steve Zingman szingman at msgstor.com
Sat Dec 12 19:02:17 UTC 2015 

Ken,
I now better understand. I'll work on something that will solve the 
restart from crash.
I will also look into what is causing the crash since I also have a 706 
as a remote base.

Thanks, Steve

On 12/12/2015 01:50 PM, Kenneth Grimard wrote:
> hi steve
>
> the main issue steve is not the fact that
> service asterisk restart does not work.
>
> but the main issue is that if asterisk crashes for any reason
> it will not restart itself. because of this i also can not use
> cop,1 cop command which is asterisk restart.
>
> cop,1 will cause asterisk to exit for restart but asterisk will
> not restart via a watchdog script.
>
> safe_asterisk used to do this very nicely but it has been eliminated.
> and you only use the asterisk service script under systemd.
>
> yes the version of the asterisk service script i have here from the
> dial build from about 4 to 5 weeks ago the
> service asterisk restart does not work.
>
> it force's me to use service asterisk stop to remove the
> asterisk.ctl file from the /var/run and the
> the service asterisk start will then work allowing asterisk
> to be restarted proprely.
>
> I also have a node setup for remote base mode using an
> ic-706mkiig and sometimes that will cause a crash with it.
> when asterisk is accessed via an allmon2 dashboard.
>
> I have had to take the remote base node off of the
> allmon2 page to stop this crashing.
>
> it will do it every time too.
> that is something with the old remote base code
> with in app_rpt.c too which has never been fixed.
>
> this is why the asterisk auto restart on crash would be very nice
>
> where can i find a new or updated asterisk service script.
>
> can i get it from the rpi2 dial image and put in the
> dial x86 build with out having to re-install
> dial x86 image?
>
> otherwise for the most part asterisk under dial has been
> fairly stable. but i can make it crash under certain conditions
> which i try to avoid. like using allmon2 to access
> the remote base node via the asterisk manager
> interface.
>
> ken n1dot
>
>
>
> On 12/12/2015 1:01 PM, Steve Zingman wrote:
>> Ken,
>> As I posted below I could not recreate your issue. is there anything 
>> I'm missing?
>>
>> 73, Steve
>>
>> root at repeater:~# asterisk -r
>> Asterisk 1519, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
>> Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
>> Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' 
>> for details.
>> This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General 
>> Public
>> License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute 
>> it under
>> certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
>> =========================================================================
>> Connected to Asterisk 1519 currently running on repeater (pid = 4407)
>> repeater*CLI> rpt cmd 2150 cop 1 2150
>> repeater*CLI> Killed
>>
>> root at repeater:~# service asterisk restart
>> root at repeater:~# asterisk -r
>> Asterisk 1519, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
>> Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
>> Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' 
>> for details.
>> This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General 
>> Public
>> License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute 
>> it under
>> certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
>> =========================================================================
>> Connected to Asterisk 1519 currently running on repeater (pid = 4462)
>> repeater*CLI>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/12/2015 11:50 AM, Kenneth Grimard wrote:
>>> I download the dial release and installed it just after is first 
>>> came out
>>> that was about 4 weeks ago.
>>>
>>> now if asterisk crash for any reason or if you use the cop,1 cop command
>>> it will not restart is self at all. you have to go into an ssh shell 
>>> and issue a
>>> service asterisk stop then a service asterisk start.
>>>
>>> the service asterisk restart does not work for me on the x86 release.
>>>
>>> there seems to be no way for asterisk to restart itself after a crash
>>> or after using the cop,1 cop command.
>>>
>>> has there been any updates to the asterisk service command
>>> for systemd to fix this?
>>>
>>> ken n1dot
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/12/2015 7:16 AM, Steve Zingman wrote:
>>>> Neil,
>>>> I misread your message last night.
>>>> I just tested service asterisk restart on DIAL x86 restarts a dead 
>>>> asterisk. See below.
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep asterisk
>>>>  1081 ?        Ssl    0:01 /usr/sbin/asterisk
>>>>  1117 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep asterisk
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# kill -9 1081
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep asterisk
>>>>  1125 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep asterisk
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# asterisk -r
>>>> Asterisk 1519, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
>>>> Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
>>>> Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show 
>>>> warranty' for details.
>>>> This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU 
>>>> General Public
>>>> License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to 
>>>> redistribute it under
>>>> certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
>>>> =========================================================================
>>>> Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk.ctl 
>>>> exist?)
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# service asterisk restart
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# ps ax | grep asterisk
>>>>  1143 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/asterisk
>>>>  1171 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep asterisk
>>>>
>>>> root at repeater:/etc/init.d# asterisk -r
>>>> Asterisk 1519, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others.
>>>> Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
>>>> Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show 
>>>> warranty' for details.
>>>> This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU 
>>>> General Public
>>>> License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to 
>>>> redistribute it under
>>>> certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
>>>> =========================================================================
>>>> Connected to Asterisk 1519 currently running on repeater (pid = 1143)
>>>> repeater*CLI>
>>>>
>>>> 73, Steve N4IRS
>>>>
>>>> On 12/12/2015 12:44 AM, Neil k8it wrote:
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> I have been evaluating Dial on a Linux PC
>>>>> Observations
>>>>> 1. When asterisk crashes, there is no restart or watchdog
>>>>> 2.this makes debugging very difficult
>>>>> 3.asterisk service mode restart does not seem to work
>>>>> 4. in this mode remote SSH to restart is not possible
>>>>> Do you have any fixes planned?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> 73 Neil Sablatzky  K8IT
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>>>>>>>>>>>
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