Bug#318189: asterisk-oh323: chan_oh323.so cannot find symbol and Asterisk crashes

[Mark Purcell]

Thanks Juan,

I would suspect that asterisk is changing symbol names without telling 
anyone :-( That's not good of asterisk.

A rebuild of the asterisk-oh323 package should rectify things against the 
newer asterisk.

Mark

On Thursday 14 July 2005 00:08, Juan Jose Comellas wrote:
> Package: asterisk-oh323
> Version: 0.6.6pre3-3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> The asterisk-oh323 package version 0.6.6pre3-3 was linked expecting the
> ast_smoother_feed symbol to be in the /usr/sbin/asterisk executable. The
> problem is that the symbol is present as __ast_smoother_feed and thus
> chan_oh323.so does not find it. Because of this, when Asterisk starts
> and tries to load the chan_oh323.so module it aborts because the symbol
> cannot be found.
>
> The following error message is logged to /var/log/asterisk/messages when
> this happens:
>
> Jul 13 19:37:26 WARNING[2373]: /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_oh323.so:
> undefined symbol: ast_smoother_feed
> Jul 13 19:37:26 WARNING[2373]: Loading module chan_oh323.so failed!
>
> The problem can be seen by running these commands:
>
> # objdump -T /usr/sbin/asterisk | grep ast_smoother_feed
> 08054698 g    DF .text  000001bd  Base        __ast_smoother_feed
>
> ~# objdump -T /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_oh323.so | grep
> ast_smoother_feed
> 00000000      D  *UND*  00000000              ast_smoother_feed
>
> Looking at the Asterisk headers it looks like the asterisk package is at
> fault, because in line 378 of /usr/include/asterisk/frame.h the
> function's prototype is:
>
> extern int ast_smoother_feed(struct ast_smoother *s, struct ast_frame *f);
>
> A workaround to this problem without uninstalling asterisk-oh323 is to
> add the following line to /etc/asterisk/modules.conf:
>
> noload => chan_oh323.so
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
>
> Versions of packages asterisk-oh323 depends on:
> ii  asterisk        1:1.0.9.dfsg-1           open source Private Branch
> Exchang ii  libc6           2.3.2.ds1-22             GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries an ii  libexpat1       1.95.8-3                 XML parsing C
> library - runtime li ii  libldap2        2.1.30-11                OpenLDAP
> libraries
> ii  libopenh323-1.1 1.15.3-2                 H.323 aka VoIP library
> ii  libpt-1.8.3     1.8.4-1                  Portable Windows Library
> ii  libsasl2        2.1.19-1.5               Authentication abstraction
> library ii  libsdl1.2debian 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs20041007-5 Simple DirectMedia
> Layer ii  libssl0.9.7     0.9.7e-3                 SSL shared libraries
> ii  libstdc++5      1:3.3.5-13               The GNU Standard C++ Library
> v3
>
> asterisk-oh323 recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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