Package: asterisk Version: 1:1.6.1.0~dfsg-1 Severity: normal Sometimes (most notably on boot) Asterisk would give the strange "dead canary" message:
Setting up asterisk (1:1.6.1.0~dfsg-0.7196) ... Starting Asterisk PBX: The canary is no more. He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace. His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket. He's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleeding choir invisible!! THIS is an EX-CANARY. (Reducing priority) asterisk. When Asterisk runs in real-time scheduling priority (-p, the default in Debian), it may not be so nice if it gets into a 100% CPU loop. Thus as of Asterisk 1.6.0 there is a separate Asterisk Canary" child process that runs at a normal priorty and writes every 5 seconds to /var/run/asterisk/alt.asterisk.canary.tweet.tweet.tweet While the canary is tweeting, we know Asterisk is not taking 100% CPU time. If Asterisk notices nobody updates the file, it responds by dropping the real-time scheduling priority. For most Lenny and above systems this feature is not really needed anyway, because as of kernel 2.6.25, the "real-time scheduling priority" will not resort to taking only 95% CPU time after a while. The issue at hand seems to be https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=15093 . However maybe we should just drop this feature until the upstream issue is fixed? It mostly adds noise. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages asterisk depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii asterisk-config 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3 Configuration files for Asterisk ii asterisk-sounds-ma 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3 Core Sound files for Asterisk (Eng ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library ii libc-client2007b 7:2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3 c-client library for mail protocol ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap2 2.11-2 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libcurl3 7.18.2-8 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libgsm1 1.0.12-1 Shared libraries for GSM speech co ii libiksemel3 1.2-4 C library for the Jabber IM platfo ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libnewt0.52 0.52.2-11.3 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex ii libogg0 1.1.3-4 Ogg Bitstream Library ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libpq5 8.3.5-1 PostgreSQL C client library ii libpri1.0 1.4.3-2 Primary Rate ISDN specification li ii libradiusclient-ng 0.5.5-1 Enhanced RADIUS client library ii libsnmp15 5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex extended runtime library ii libsqlite0 2.8.17-4 SQLite shared library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtonezone1 1:1.4.11~dfsg-3 tonezone library (runtime) ii libvorbis0a 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvorbisenc2 1.2.0.dfsg-3.1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi ii libvpb0 4.2.38-1 Voicetronix telephony hardware use ii unixodbc 2.2.11-16 ODBC tools libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime asterisk recommends no packages. Versions of packages asterisk suggests: ii asterisk-dev 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3 Development files for Asterisk pn asterisk-doc <none> (no description available) pn asterisk-h323 <none> (no description available) pn ekiga <none> (no description available) ii kphone 1:4.2-7~etch.4794 Voice over IP (VoIP) phone applica pn ohphone <none> (no description available) ii twinkle 1:1.2-3 Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
