Stuck Channel - Is the dial plan the cause?

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

I have had the following problem for many Asterisk versions from 13 to now 20.

I have the following stuck channel that always appear on my systems.

Channel Location State Application(Data)
Message/ast_msg_queue s-Cell@check-barring:5 Up Hangup()

Below is the part of the dial plan:

    exten => s-Cell,1,NoOp(The number is a cell number)
    exten => s-Cell,n,GotoIf($["${FORWARDING}"="yes"]?s-Cell,6)
    exten => s-Cell,n,GotoIf($[${ODBC_barringcellular(${EXT})}=yes]?s-Cell,6)
    exten => s-Cell,n,Playback(feature-not-avail-line)
    exten => s-Cell,n,Hangup
    exten => s-Cell,n,NoOp(User is Allowed to call Cellphones)
    exten => s-Cell,n,Return()

Any suggestions as to how to fix it, it’s doesn’t really affect the system or performance.

2

That’s for text messaging. The channel will always exist once at least one out of dialog text message occurs. Endpoints should be configured, though, to send out of dialog messages to a context strictly for text messaging as it won’t work with contexts that handle voice calls and will appear like this.