Asterisk keeps dying on me

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Hi All, I have been experimenting with an install of Asterisk 11 with freepbx. The main reason for using this is to act as a h232 to sip gateway for our Avaya g450. I have had great fun in getting this working and think that this is a fantastic product. I have been using it with smart phone sip apps on our LAN and there is so much potential that, I would love to try it out live. The only problem I have is that I have had to do two complete reinstalls in the last 6 months. This is after it just stopped working. My latest issue was where astersk CLI stopped due to some missing files and then freepbx also died a death shortly afterwards. Asterisk on this occasion was fine it was just the CLI and freepbx that didn’t want to play. My question is this. I would like to try it without freepbx to see if it will me more stable. I found this on a google search.

http://support.digium.com/Answers?id=kA080000000H21wCAC#!/feedtype=SINGLE_ARTICLE_SEARCH_RESULT&id=kA080000000H21w

There is a link to an iso which I downloaded but I am not getting the option to install without freepbx. Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would really like to let this loose on our users I am sure they are going to love it. I am just not confident enough with the present state of affairs. Thanks in advance

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Compile it from sources. Install your preferred Linux Distro then install asterisk on it. Debian or CentOS are the most used distros for Asterisk servers, but also OpenSUSE works nice.

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I would install centos 6 then add the asterisk 11 repo and install using yum. No reason to compile from sources.

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Many of the repos are outdated and the bug fix comes slowly thats why I prefer compile from sources, also you can enable/disable features easily or patching too, things with an rpm are a “pita”

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I have never had asterisk just die on me requiring a re-install. Maybe you have some sort of hardware problem. Run memtest to eliminate that possibility. Also check SMART flags on your disks for possible failure.

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Thanks for all your replies peeps. I have downloaded the distro and will have a go this week on Centos. Surp, thanks for your advice, this happened on two different machines. One has been running Ubuntu for more than a year with no issues.
I will let you know how I get on. Here’s hoping . Thanks again.