Bug#336828: asterisk: computer hangs if config file includes a directory

[Jamie McClelland]

Package: asterisk
Version: 1.0.7-BRIstuffed-0.2.0-RC7k
Severity: normal


If you create a directory in /etc/asterisk, such as:

mkdir /etc/asterisk/extensions

And then add a directive to include the directory in another file, such as:

echo "#include extensions" >> /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf

Then reload asterisk, asterisk will either:

* Hang the entire computer (if run with the -p option which is the default)
or
* Hang asterisk - taking up 99% of CPU utilization.

See the following bug reports upstream:

http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5510
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=4637



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)