trixbox hangs

After running for a few hours trixbox hangs.

Symptom 1 - loading a trixbox maintenance web page - progress bar on browser goes to almost completion then stops.

Symptom 2 - terminal session stops working.

Hi

You need to look at the log files on the server.

Ian

Where are the log files stored? How are they named?



SIP registration attempts time out. sip show peers indicates that asterisk still sees the sips.

Web Server status on main status page sometimes shows Timeout.

Sometimes a brower request will hang for many seconds, then complete.

You will find the log files in /var/log and /var/log/asterisk

Note there are a lot of them!

In your case the one of immediate interest is called messages and you can read it from the command line with 'less messages'

Seeing exactly same behaviour in my Trixbox as well. The logs are squeaky clean. All of them: the dmesg logs, the /var/log/messages and /var/log/asterisk/full

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The computer just plain hangs and nothing is logged.

Going to downgrade to last stable release I know of to get around this.

If its when you are loading the web gui then look at the httpd log.

Ian

Happens at random. I suspected httpd, even Asterisk. Have run the box with httpd stopped and even Asterisk stopped and still had it hang on me.

So it is neither httpd or asterisk that causes it. There's no Kernel panic either. Checked the hardware as well - memory is fine, so is the hard disk. So ruled that out.

Got to be something in the Trixbox packages. Just don't know what.

Will post my logs here soon to see if anyone else can find something weird.

Outside chance

Not by any chance using a multi-core processor and USB keyboard/mouse or an add-on card?

Found a couple of motherboards recently that appear to have serious timing problems when used with multi-core processors- Either sending things in to panic (usually cards), or simply stopping (USB devices).