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by skier
Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:43 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: zm is stopped and won't restart (no zmc processes up)
Replies: 3
Views: 3043

SOLVED

OK, so my guess above was right, and I've now fixed it. What a pain. Let me write it all down here so that it may help someone else too (and me, next time it happens). First thing I did, I fetched the latest ffmpg from svn and recompiled it and installed it (totally useless in retrospect). Anyway, i...
by skier
Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:56 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: zm is stopped and won't restart (no zmc processes up)
Replies: 3
Views: 3043

Er, yes, mysql is running. No, I didn't change the password. Meanwhile, I think I'm coming up with some sort of a clue: I suspect it was an automatic update that broke some of the shared libraries. zmc: error while loading shared libraries: libavutil.so.50: cannot open shared object file: No such fi...
by skier
Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:05 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: zm is stopped and won't restart (no zmc processes up)
Replies: 3
Views: 3043

zm is stopped and won't restart (no zmc processes up)

I have a zoneminder 1.24.2 setup that had been working fine for months without intervention. Now all of a sudden all the sources are red and the console is "Stopped". No images, needless to say. Restarting zoneminder from the web interface does not work (still says "stopped"). Fr...
by skier
Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:33 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: How to find the picture matching a given timestamp?
Replies: 0
Views: 976

How to find the picture matching a given timestamp?

Is there an easy and reliable way to find the recorded picture that is closest to a given timestamp (eg 2009-12-31 12:48:27)? I have deep storage turned on, so the directories are sensibly named and do help with that, but if I want to do that from a script then it's not a totally trivial matter to d...
by skier
Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: After reboot, some cameras are missing and never appear
Replies: 27
Views: 14802

I am investigating the after-I-reboot-the-pc-some-cameras-arent-there issue on the reinstalled system where I know I can have all 8 going at some point. What seems to happen (different from before) is that, for the zmc that can't start, it's because the /dev/videoX isn't even there! Apparently it ta...
by skier
Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:54 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: (LOW PRIORITY) Astronomically large fps value?!?
Replies: 2
Views: 1856

Thanks Kwire.

I have 1.24.2 on another hard disk; I had disconnected it and restarted with a fresh install to try and fix another problem. If that's known and fixed in 1.24.2 then I won't worry about it.
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:59 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: (LOW PRIORITY) Astronomically large fps value?!?
Replies: 2
Views: 1856

(LOW PRIORITY) Astronomically large fps value?!?

This is on a freshly reinstalled system, 1.24.1 from the ubuntu 9.10 repository. When viewing a camera feed, either on its own or in the montage, I occasionally get a monstrously long fps value (obviously not true), so long that it even throws the picture off screen in the montage view! I'm talking ...
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:35 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: After reboot, some cameras are missing and never appear
Replies: 27
Views: 14802

What I've been doing is to take yet another hard disk and restart from zero: BIOS reset to the system defaults, HD reformat, clean install of ubuntu server, then zm only (1.24.1 from the distro) and no other software, bttv.conf and all that stuff, definition of the cameras one by one and trying to g...
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:18 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: How to get more debugging info on zmc crash?
Replies: 2
Views: 5702

Thanks!

So I went into zm console, options, debug, EXTRA DEBUG yes, EXTRa DEBUG TARGET _zmc, EXTRA DEBUG LEVEL 6, EXTRA DEBUG LOG /tmp/zm_debug.log+

Very useful!
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:23 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: How to get more debugging info on zmc crash?
Replies: 2
Views: 5702

How to get more debugging info on zmc crash?

I have an 8-camera setup and one camera is not coming up. More precisely, the zmc process for that camera, /dev/video3, isn't running. (See this other thread for more details than you might possibly want: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14982 ) In /var/log/syslog I find entries like...
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:09 pm
Forum: Hardware Queries
Topic: Logitech Webcam C300
Replies: 5
Views: 4176

...and did you figure out which of the things you did fixed the problem, and what the problem actually was?
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:16 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: After reboot, some cameras are missing and never appear
Replies: 27
Views: 14802

STOP PRESS -- It wasn't a hardware fault: the hardware of all 8 channels works fine. It wasn't the old kernel: it is possible to get a picture from all 8 channels simultaneously even on 2.6.31.14-generic. It wasn't an IRQ conflict: it is possible to get a picture from all 8 channels even with a setu...
by skier
Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: After reboot, some cameras are missing and never appear
Replies: 27
Views: 14802

@Coyote: OK, I have now compiled and installed a 2.6.32 kernel. What do I get? All channels minus /dev/video3. Restarting zm with sudo /etc/init.d/zm restart or with sudo su www-data zmpkg.pl restart does not revive channel 3. Maybe I have now got a hardware fault on 3? Maybe, as mastertheknife said...
by skier
Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:22 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: After reboot, some cameras are missing and never appear
Replies: 27
Views: 14802

@Coyote: compiling the 2.6.32 kernel as we speak... We'll see!



@all:

when I run

zmdc.pl restart zmc -d /dev/video3

and it fails to start a zmc, where can I find the error messages it may have written?
by skier
Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:40 pm
Forum: ZoneMinder 1.24.x
Topic: After reboot, some cameras are missing and never appear
Replies: 27
Views: 14802

I have the same issue here, with an ECS borad and a AMD processor. I notice that, if you restart zoneminder, all things goes ok. Unfortunately this is not the case for me. Looks like daemons and hard lost sync on startup (its weird, some cams start with a green screen or with a line of vid on top),...