ASL3-Ecolink asterisk Crashing

App_rpt-users
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I might suggest you create a private node and attach the EL chan to it and see if any short term relief can be obtained.

You might mention about how much free memory you have when it crashes if you care to monitor that next time..

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Mike, Ill pass on the private node. Its been moved around like crazy. Its on a home node. I have rebuilt nodes in the last month on the crazy side of ridicules. I will do what needs to be done for testing to figure this mess out.

The memory test isn't a bad idea. I got some numbers off 2 VPS last night to see the numbers while stable.

Chuck, Im working on your questions now.
Dave
N3DMC

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I talked with Steve NU5D and he's working on the private node. K5CRA Echlink crashed during the net at 3PM. I will watch it at 5 pm.

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Asterisk 22.2.0+asl3-3.3.0-6.deb12
root@node:~# sudo /var/lib/asterisk/scripts/ast_coredumper /var/lib/asterisk/core
seems to not be installed.
Please install gdb or use the '--gdb' option to
point to a valid executable.

I installed it.
core-asterisk-2025-04-20T22-48-12Z-thread1.txt (10.5 KB)
core-asterisk-2025-04-20T22-48-12Z-locks.txt (728 Bytes)
core-asterisk-2025-04-20T22-48-12Z-info.txt (6.8 KB)
core-asterisk-2025-04-20T22-48-12Z-full.txt (196.2 KB)
core-asterisk-2025-04-20T22-48-12Z-brief.txt (71.4 KB)

Wasnt sure what you needed Chuck so you got them all.

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Thanks! OK, the N3DMC node is running a version of ASL which still has some echolink problems. These appear to be fixed in the current beta, which is slated to release Real Soon Now. You can wait a day or three to update, or test using the beta now if you choose.

One last question, can you get the asterisk version from the W5ZDN node?

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W5ZDN
Asterisk 20.11.0+asl3-3.2.0-2.deb12

I will wait on the next update.

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I can put the test beta on N3DMC Node. Its by it self at the moment. Where do I get it? I found it.

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Thank you all from W5ZDN, K5CRA, NU5D, and myself N3DMC. We have been fighting with this for weeks. I apricate everyone's help.

Dave

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N3DMC
-rw------- 1 asterisk asterisk 96845824 Apr 22 15:11 /var/lib/asterisk/core
Asterisk 22.2.0+asl3-3.4.3-1.deb12

Beta didn't fix it. Caused distortions across the nodes.

W5ZDN-R Node
-rw------- 1 asterisk asterisk 98758656 Apr 22 15:11 /var/lib/asterisk/core
Asterisk 22.2.0+asl3-3.4.3-1.deb12

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Dave, if you can run the two sudo commands to get the 5 .txt backtrtace files on your N3DMC node and attach them here, I can compare them to the ones I got yesterday, and also open an issue with them. TIA.

EDIT: The /var/log/asterisk/messages.log file from that machine will also be useful if you can attach it.

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core-asterisk-2025-04-22T20-13-51Z-brief.txt (62.7 KB)
core-asterisk-2025-04-22T20-13-51Z-full.txt (180.0 KB)
core-asterisk-2025-04-22T20-13-51Z-info.txt (6.8 KB)
core-asterisk-2025-04-22T20-13-51Z-locks.txt (728 Bytes)
core-asterisk-2025-04-22T20-13-51Z-thread1.txt (16.1 KB)

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messages.txt (424.4 KB)

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A few questions for those having EchoLink issues :

  1. In your echolink.conf file, are you using the "message" variable ?
  2. In your echolink.conf file, is the astnode variable correct (i.e. it's an active/running node on the same server) ?
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echolink.txt (2.0 KB)

Take a look. Its hooked to the same node listed. 503602. That's actually a node I built for testing. Its as basic as can be. Only thing I added to it was wireguard to get past a double nat. It was on my cloud hub when this started.

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Issue #645 created for this problem here.

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I've been messing with allstar for 2 plus years. I try to figure out stuff myself but this was beyond my ability. Hints my first time here.

Thank you. If you get a test beta I will put it on the test node. Echolink can stay on the test node for now. This explains the noise it made across the network yesterday when it reconnected.
Dave

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Just for posterity, I did not experience any crash during the Net this week, that experienced crashing last week... so nothing useful to add from here. (Thankfully, I suppose.)

Nate WY0X

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People with Echolink crashing should downgrade to 3.3.0-6:

sudo apt install asl3-asterisk=2:22.2.0+asl3-3.3.0-6.deb12 asl3-asterisk-modules=2:22.2.0+asl3-3.3.0-6.deb12 asl3-asterisk-config=2:22.2.0+asl3-3.3.0-6.deb12
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Looking at what I posted about the crashing was the same version that started this mess??? Shutting down echolink unless you have a better suggestion.

Asterisk 22.2.0+asl3-3.3.0-6.deb12
root@node:~# ls -l /var/lib/asterisk/core
-rw------- 1 asterisk asterisk 101666816 Apr 24 15:15 /var/lib/asterisk/core
root@node:~#

This one doesnt crash but has detorsion.
W5ZDN
Asterisk 20.11.0+asl3-3.2.0-2.deb12

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The newest beta release (3.4.5) addresses this issue (and others).