Macro Limit Reached. Aborting Call

[Sc00by]

Hi All,

I have an extension that’s forwarded to another extension. Occasionally the other extension is then also forwarded. This means that an inbound call to ext1 is then bounced on twice.

However, apparently it’s never worked and I only found this out yesterday. Digging through the logs these calls fail with;

[2023-06-15 20:25:44] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [s@macro-user-callerid:29] NoOp("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "Macro Depth is 6") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:44] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [s@macro-user-callerid:30] GotoIf("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "0?report2:macroerror") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:44] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx_builtins.c: Goto (macro-user-callerid,s,40)
[2023-06-15 20:25:44] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [s@macro-user-callerid:40] NoOp("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "Macro Limit Reached. Aborting Call") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:44] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [s@macro-user-callerid:41] Answer("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:44] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [s@macro-user-callerid:42] Wait("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "1") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:45] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [s@macro-user-callerid:43] Gosub("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "macro-user-callerid,lang-playback,1(hook_2)") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:45] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [lang-playback@macro-user-callerid:1] GosubIf("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "1?macro-user-callerid,en,hook_2():macro-user-callerid,en,hook_2()") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:45] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] pbx.c: Executing [en@macro-user-callerid:5] Playback("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "im-sorry&an-error-has-occurred") in new stack
[2023-06-15 20:25:45] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] file.c: <PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6> Playing 'im-sorry.alaw' (language 'en')
[2023-06-15 20:25:46] VERBOSE[8157][C-00001a86] file.c: <PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6> Playing 'an-error-has-occurred.alaw' (language 'en')

Is there a way around this?

I’m FPBX 16, Asterisk v18

[Sc00by]

I have found the following post with the same problem. I am in a unique situation at the moment where I have a forward via a ring group that’s also triggering this issue. This is only required for a month.

Editing the two files has fixed the problem but I now have a security warning on my dashboard!

Extension forwarded to an already forwarded extension

I have an extension (x220) forwarded to the receptionist (x200) that forward her calls to x201 on some occasions. The problem I have, when this happen, is calls to x220 get an error “Macro Limit Reached. Aborting Call” in the logs and the call hangup. It seems related to the MACRO_DEPTH not being “smaller” than 6 in “macro-user-callerid” /etc/asterisk/extensions_additional.conf:exten => s,n,GotoIf($[“${MACRO_DEPTH}” = “” | ${MACRO_DEPTH} < 6 ]?report2:macroerror) When call comes in I see in t…

Is there a permanent fix to this or another way of changing the macro limit?

[PitzKey (Itzik)]

@Sc00by

NoOp("PJSIP/Gamma-Primary-00003cc6", "Macro Depth is 6") in new stack

Looks like this is to avoid a loop. Can you please share the full call trace?