Could someone tell me what the Sound: Recording overrun means in Asterisk? Im a trainee at a local telephone operator and one of my tasks are to set up Asterisk. And the Sound: Recording overrun bothers me alot so please help me.
Conny - Finland
What exactly are you referring to?
I would whant to know what the problem is when the text appears. and how it can be fixed
Please post the text you are referring to and more detail (ie - what is in your extensions.conf and other configs) when this happens. Too little information to go off of at the moment.
aah… ok… ill do that… will take a while but i will try to get the information to you…
i dont know what of the config files you need but here is extension.conf and a bit from sip.conf
[general]
static=yes
writeprotect=no
[globals]
CONSOLE => Console/dsp
IAXINFO => guest
TRUNK => Zap/g2
TRUNKMSD => 1
[default]
exten => _0.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:0}@10.99.99.1,r)
exten => _420XX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:0}@10.99.99.3,r)
exten => _54XX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:0}@10.99.99.1,r)
include => demo
[demo]
exten => #,1,Playback(demo-thanks)
exten => #,2,Hangup()
exten => 1000,1,Goto(default,s,1)
exten => 1234,1,Playback(transfer,skip)
exten => 1234,2,Macro(stdexten,1234,${CONSOLE})
exten => 1235,1,Voicemail(u1234)
exten => 1236,1,Dial(Console/dsp)
exten => 1236,2,Voicemail(u1234)
exten => 2,1,BackGround(demo-moreinfo)
exten => 2,2,Goto(s,6)
exten => 3,1,SetLanguage(fr)
exten => 3,2,Goto(s,5)
exten => 42123,1,Dial(SIP/voip1,20,tr)
exten => 42124,1,Dial(SIP/blah,20,tr)
exten => 42125,1,Dial(SIP/sven,20,tr)
exten => 42128,1,Dial(SIP/sven2,20,tr)
exten => 42126,1,Dial(SIP/voip2,20,tr)
exten => 8500,1,VoicemailMain()
exten => 8500,2,Goto(s,6)
exten => i,1,Playback(invalid)
exten => s,1,Wait(1)
exten => s,2,Answer()
exten => s,3,DigitTimeout(5)
exten => s,4,ResponseTimeout(10)
exten => s,5,BackGround(demo-congrats)
exten => s,6,BackGround(demo-instruct)
exten => t,1,Goto(#,1)
[local]
include => default
include => parkedcalls
[blah]
type=friend
host=dynamic
defaultip=194.157.198.113
username=blah
secret=blah
dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; Choices are inband, rfc2833, or info
mailbox=1000 ; Mailbox for message waiting indicator
;context=sip
callerid=“Me” <42124>
[voip1]
type=friend
host=dynamic
defaultip=194.157.198.252
username=voip1
secret=voip
dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; Choices are inband, rfc2833, or info
mailbox=1000 ; Mailbox for message waiting indicator
;context=sip
callerid=“voip1” <42123>
[voip2]
type=friend
host=dynamic
defaultip=194.157.198.252
username=voip2
secret=voip
dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; Choices are inband, rfc2833, or info
mailbox=1000 ; Mailbox for message waiting indicator
;context=sip
callerid=“voip2” <42126>
[sven]
type=friend
username=sven
secret=blah
host=dynamic
;defaultip=194.157.198.15
dtmfmode=rfc2833 ; Choices are inband, rfc2833, or info
mailbox=1000 ; Mailbox for message waiting indicator
;context=sip
callerid=“sven” <42125>
[sven2]
type=friend
username=sven2
secret=blah
host=dynamic
;defaultip=194.157.198.125
dtmfmode=rfc2833
mailbox=1000
callerid=“sven2” <42128>
And the error you are getting? The complete text?
suddenly after being online for a while there starts coming this ->
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
Sound: Recording overrun
oh and then another thing…
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[901]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[901]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[899]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[899]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[902]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[902]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[900]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
Oct 26 13:21:03 NOTICE[900]: res_musiconhold.c:309 monmp3thread: Request to schedule in the past?!?!
what should i do to this??
sry for beein a pain in the ass but i just cant figure out what to do…
Strangely, doing a grep for the word “overrun” in the Asterisk source code doesn’t throw up any such message. But my sources are v1.2 - i guess you must be using 1.0.9?
If so, why don’t you upgrade to 1.2? This is guaranteed to get rid of that message, i’d say, as that message doesn’t appear to exist in v1.2! 
i am using 1.0.9 but i was told to use it because they said it is the newest STABLE version
but IF i upgrade it do i have to uninstall and install the new version or can i update it so that i dont have to fix the configs again?
That depends on what you mean by stable. I’ve been running 1.2 for quite a while now and i’ve never had any problems with it. But it doesn’t get very heavy usage. If you’re using Asterisk in a business environment, there may be some merit in using 1.0.9 - however, i think 1.2 is so much better you’re better off with that whatever. At your own risk, of course!
hmm… maybe i should upgrade because its just a test machine… it woant be on heavy load… maybe maybe… but what about the update… can i just update and dont have to worry about the configs?
I would upgrade and also make sure you are not running an X server on your Asterisk box.
And I have never seen your ‘Recording: overrun’ message before either.
Yes. However, it’s a good idea to update the configs as well, as some of the config possibilities have changed a bit.
The way i do it is to move /etc/asterisk to something like /etc/asterisk-backup and then do the full install - including the configs. Then move the new /etc/asterisk to /etc/asterisk-new, move the old one back to /etc/asterisk and put the new one in the old as a sub-directory. Then i have a look through the new configs and add any features i want to add into the old files, and copy any new files to /etc/asterisk. You certainly don’t need to start the configs again from scratch.
okay… that would me a good idea… thanx again…
ok… so 1.2Beta is installed… but when trying to start asterisk it wouldn… so we tryed to start the safe_asterisk but then this came up ->
[root@linuxtest sbin]# safe_asterisk
[root@linuxtest sbin]# Asterisk ended with exit status 1
Asterisk died with code 1.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
Asterisk ended with exit status 1
Asterisk died with code 1.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
Asterisk ended with exit status 1
Asterisk died with code 1.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
Asterisk ended with exit status 1
Asterisk died with code 1.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
Asterisk ended with exit status 1
Asterisk died with code 1.
Automatically restarting Asterisk.
you’ll actually need to start looking at the log file in /var/log/asterisk to make any sense of it.
there’ll be something in your config that * doesn’t like, and only by reading the log messages will you be able to see what it is.