ChanSpy in 1.4.0 buggy

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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When doing a ChanSpy on an extension, i am having issues where Asterisk will stop responding and I have to shut it down and restart it, and other quirky behaviour by this application

First Case
Sip/199 calls Sip/119 : they are in a call… I call in from Sip/118 and initialize ChanSpy(SIP/199,wq) everything seems to work fine. If I hangup Sip/118 asterisk stops responding ( the call that is bridged is ok, it just never fires SIP/118 as hanging up) … But if I try calling into the Asterisk machine , there is no response. I have to stop and restart asterisk.

Second Case:
I call a DID that gets routed to Sip/199… I show Sip/199 in a call, so I use Sip/118 to once again call ChanSpy(SIP/199,wq) Only now when I do this, the outside line gets hung up and SIP/199 can hear me , but I can hear no audio on Sip/118

Has anyone ran into a similiar problem and if so were you able to resolve it. I desperately need to be able to Coach an active SIP channel.

Any information you need to help in this,let me know.

This is my extensions_custom.conf entry:

[channelspy1]
exten => s,1,ChanSpy(SIP/199,wq)

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PM one of the bug marshals on IRC (irc.freenode.net #asterisk). You can also post a bug report @ bugs.digium.com (I believe is the URL). I personally have not switched over to 1.4 because of some of the complaints.

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It was buggy even in 1.2. When it locks up like that after using it, attach with gdb and generate a core dump. Then post this on bugs.digium.com

  • you will need recompile Asterisk without optimizations.

  1. Follow the section “Tips for Asterisk 1.4” here:
    voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+debugging

  2. The when Asterisk isn’t responding do:
    gdb /usr/sbin/asterisk pid_of_asterisk

If you attach to Asterisk it will tell you what pid it’s running on.

  1. When you are in gdb do:
    gcore /root/asterisk.core

  2. Post the bug and upload the asterisk.core file to the bug tracker.

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thank you very much for the replies.

Also , I was just looking into what I need to do to get a dump of what happened, so you couldnt have been more helpful haha. Thank you!