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Update: couldn't find a solution, so I just set it up as a docker container and am running it that way. All seems to be working well.

Well, this was me adding ZoneMinder to an existing Ubuntu box (currently serving as my Sonarr/Radarr/Plex/OpenVPN machine). i've never encountered this kind of issue before though so it's got me pretty stumped.

Yeah, I removed the original zoneminder PPA from the script. Otherwise I barely touched it. So weird. I just wanted a simple setup to easily trigger a recording on my camera from SmartThings events. Turned into a whole process, now the wife says it's too unreliable blah blah blah, lol

I would start by looking up /etc/init.d/zoneminder to see where these lines are generated and why the PID owners do not match. Those lines are generated by systemd... I threw some debugging lines into zmpkg.pl - everything seems to be starting up ok, the returnval from the perl script is 0. Look at...

Ok, so I've been googling for some time trying to see if anybody else has encountered something similar, but can't seem to find anything. I've got a fresh install (installed from the script on this page: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Server_or_Desktop_Zoneminder_1.34.x#Install_Zoneminder_1.34.x...