Error while starting bearerbox

Hello Experts,

I am getting below error while starting the bearerbox :

2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [6] ERROR: Error reading from fd 22:
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [6] ERROR: System error 104: Connection reset 
by peer
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [6] ERROR: SMPP[transaction]: Couldn't 
connect to SMS center (retrying in 10 seconds).
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] INFO: Loading store file 
`/var/log/kannel/transaction/store.log'
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] INFO: Store-file size 16613376, starting 
to unpack (may take awhile)
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] ERROR: Packet too short while unpacking Msg.
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] ERROR: Msg packet was invalid.
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] ERROR: Garbage at store-file, skipped.
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: gwlib/octstr.c:357: 
octstr_copy_real: Assertion `len >= 0' failed.
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/usr/local/kannel_svn/sbin/bearerbox(gw_backtrace+0xae) [0x491dfe]
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/usr/local/kannel_svn/sbin/bearerbox(gw_panic+0x15f) [0x491f6f]
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/usr/local/kannel_svn/sbin/bearerbox(octstr_copy_real+0xfc) [0x495cbc]
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/usr/local/kannel_svn/sbin/bearerbox() [0x444687]
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/usr/local/kannel_svn/sbin/bearerbox(main+0xab4) [0x40f014]
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7fd026f05af5]
2019-05-03 19:44:42 [2981] [0] PANIC: 
/usr/local/kannel_svn/sbin/bearerbox() [0x40f755]

I am using Kannel bearerbox II version 1.4.4

Please help.