On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:43 PM, George Joseph <[email protected]> wrote:
> Over the years I've been frustrated at times where Asterisk fails to start > for absolutely no (apparent) reason. No error message, no trap, nothing. > It just ends. Every case of this I've tracked down has been the result of > a module returning AST_MODULE_LOAD_FAILURE when it encounters a problem > but not bothering to print an error first. If you don't know > already, AST_MODULE_LOAD_FAILURE tells asterisk to *stop loading and exit*. > What the module should have done was actually print an error and > return AST_MODULE_LOAD_DECLINE which just tells asterisk that the module > couldn't load. > > So now I'm doing an audit of module return codes to see which call FAILURE > vs DECLINE and found the modules below all call FAILURE. > > The big question is... Exactly which modules are so critical to asterisk > that asterisk should exit if the module couldn't load? Surely not all 103 > modules listed below. If we can agree on the ones that really *should* > call FAILURE, I'll update those with error messages, then change the rest > to DECLINE and add error messages as needed. > > Reply with the list intact. Don't add, remove, split or re-order the > lines. Just stick an "F " before the modules you think should remain > failure. > > Modules returning FAILURE: > > ./addons/app_mysql.c > ./addons/cdr_mysql.c > ./addons/chan_mobile.c > ./apps/app_adsiprog.c > ./apps/app_agent_pool.c > ./apps/app_alarmreceiver.c > ./apps/app_amd.c > ./apps/app_authenticate.c > ./apps/app_cdr.c > ./apps/app_confbridge.c > ./apps/app_festival.c > ./apps/app_followme.c > ./apps/app_forkcdr.c > ./apps/app_meetme.c > ./apps/app_queue.c > ./apps/app_skel.c > ./apps/app_voicemail.c > ./cdr/cdr_custom.c > ./cel/cel_custom.c > ./cel/cel_odbc.c > ./channels/chan_alsa.c > ./channels/chan_console.c > ./channels/chan_dahdi.c > ./channels/chan_iax2.c > ./channels/chan_mgcp.c > ./channels/chan_misdn.c > ./channels/chan_motif.c > ./channels/chan_nbs.c > ./channels/chan_oss.c > ./channels/chan_phone.c > ./channels/chan_pjsip.c > ./channels/chan_sip.c > ./channels/chan_skinny.c > ./channels/chan_unistim.c > ./channels/chan_vpb.cc > ./codecs/codec_a_mu.c > ./codecs/codec_adpcm.c > ./codecs/codec_alaw.c > ./codecs/codec_g722.c > ./codecs/codec_g726.c > ./codecs/codec_gsm.c > ./codecs/codec_ilbc.c > ./codecs/codec_lpc10.c > ./codecs/codec_resample.c > ./codecs/codec_ulaw.c > ./formats/format_g723.c > ./formats/format_g726.c > ./formats/format_g729.c > ./formats/format_gsm.c > ./formats/format_h263.c > ./formats/format_h264.c > ./formats/format_ilbc.c > ./formats/format_jpeg.c > ./formats/format_ogg_vorbis.c > ./formats/format_pcm.c > ./formats/format_sln.c > ./formats/format_vox.c > ./formats/format_wav.c > ./formats/format_wav_gsm.c > ./funcs/func_cdr.c > F ./main/loader.c > ./pbx/pbx_dundi.c > F ./pbx/pbx_loopback.c > F ./pbx/pbx_realtime.c > F ./pbx/pbx_spool.c > ./res/res_pjsip/config_transport.c > ./res/res_ari.c > ./res/res_ari_events.c > ./res/res_ari_model.c > ./res/res_calendar.c > ./res/res_chan_stats.c > ./res/res_clialiases.c > ./res/res_config_ldap.c > ./res/res_config_sqlite.c > ./res/res_config_sqlite3.c > ./res/res_curl.c > ./res/res_endpoint_stats.c > ./res/res_fax.c > ./res/res_hep_rtcp.c > ./res/res_http_websocket.c > ./res/res_musiconhold.c > ./res/res_odbc.c > ./res/res_phoneprov.c > ./res/res_pjsip_nat.c > ./res/res_pjsip_one_touch_record_info.c > ./res/res_pjsip_outbound_publish.c > ./res/res_pjsip_outbound_registration.c > ./res/res_pjsip_sdp_rtp.c > ./res/res_pjsip_send_to_voicemail.c > ./res/res_pjsip_t38.c > ./res/res_smdi.c > ./res/res_snmp.c > ./res/res_stasis.c > ./res/res_stasis_device_state.c > ./res/res_stasis_playback.c > ./res/res_stasis_recording.c > ./res/res_stasis_test.c > ./res/res_statsd.c > ./res/res_timing_kqueue.c > ./res/res_xmpp.c > ./res/res_pjsip_pubsub.c > ./tests/test_bucket.c > ./tests/test_channel_feature_hooks.c > > -- > George Joseph > Digium, Inc. | Software Developer > 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - US > Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-dev mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev >
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