dmesg has nothing of interest.

No coredump (and I'd be surprised if there were one). For the record, I build it from source (in theory, 1.2 "stable"), rather than using packages.

Thanks

Check dmesg - does it show that freeswitch crashed? You'll see a line about segmentation fault, general protection error, or similar.

If so, do you have a coredump? If you're using the Debian packages (and perhaps if otherwise) it'll likely be /var/lib/freeswitch/core

If so see 'Creating A Backtrace With gdb (Linux/Unix)' on https://confluence.freeswitch.org/display/FREESWITCH/Reporting+Bugs and file a Jira

On 4 September 2014 15:32, Alex Lake <alex@digitalmail.com> wrote:

My freeswitch installation (running under Ubuntu 12.04) has a habit of
mysteriously stopping. It's not doing this in a predictable manner (eg.
it's not when any particular bit of dialplan is being executed).

I have a script that runs every minute to see if it's running, and if it
isn't, starts it up (and sends me a notification).

I'd like to be able to get to the bottom of this, but am not
particularly (or at all!) experienced in running gdb. If I follow the
brief instructions in the Wiki to run "gdb bin/freeswitch" I don't seem
to get a working freeswitch running at all. What should I see on the
command line when I issue that command? This what I currently see:

-----
root@hzhmay14a /home/oev/fs-pabx/scripts # gdb --args
/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -nonat
GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1) 7.4-2012.04
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://bugs.launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch...done.
(gdb)
(gdb)
-----

There's a mysterious (to me) command line parameter "-core" that I was
wondering if it might be useful in my circumstances.

I'm also prepared to do a new build (with some kind of diagnostic
params) if that helps.

Any tips or suggestions of things to read up on most welcome....

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