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I upgraded my gentoo server to 1.32.2 a few weeks ago thanks to a bunch of folks in the gentoo forums who worked out various ebuild and mariadb issues. But I didn't notice at the time that the recordings were not being stored. I'm getting this warning: Cannot write to content dirs('/var/lib/zonemind...

So zoneminder filled the disk and then crashed. I lost all the recordings except the saved ones and the database is still eating the whole disk. I'm going to truncate the logs to get 12G back, but the real question is: how do I prevent this from happening? I have four very active cameras recording t...

Solved. I'm running gentoo and re-emerging zoneminder made the script work. No idea why it didn't emerge properly the first time.

Just realized the problem. zmupdate.pl is updating to 0.28.1, not 0.30.2...

zmupdate.pl

Database already at version 1.28.1, update aborted.

Don't know why though...

I hope someone can help. I'm lost and my cameras aren't running: Nov 13 08:49:21 server zmdc[16690]: ERR ['zma -m 1' exited abnormally, exit status 255] Nov 13 08:49:21 server undef[16911]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 218 items, read 216. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.] Nov 13 08:...

I should mention the big camera is also 1080P...

For those who find themselves in this situation. I have two 1080P cameras setup with ffmpeg, they are the 475M listings in /dev/shm. The 211M is a 720P camera with ffmpeg. The 3.9G camera is setup as "remote" rtsp and apparently requires a huge amount of shared memory. I'll try to configur...

Why does it do this? How can I stop it? server ~ # df -h /dev/shm Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on shm 7.6G 7.6G 0 100% /dev/shm server ~ # ls /dev/shm squid-cf__metadata.shm squid-cf__readers.shm zm.mmap.2 zm.mmap.4 squid-cf__queues.shm zm.mmap.1 zm.mmap.3 server ~ # ls /dev/shm squid-cf_...

I fixed this by changing the routine to this: function getDiskPercent() { $total = disk_total_space(ZM_PATH_WEB.'/'.ZM_DIR_EVENTS); if ( ! $total ) { Error("disk_total_space returned false for " . ZM_PATH_WEB.'/'.ZM_DIR_EVENTS ); return 0; } $free = disk_free_space(ZM_PATH_WEB.'/'.ZM_DIR_E...

Thanks for trying. I know about ownership needing to be apache:apache. It's not the upgrade that kills the videos. The videos do not get written when there is a symlink or I use the mounted folders. They simply do not write. There is no error message, just messages about the files disappearing and t...

Here's the lines in the fstab that I used. /mnt/raid6/zoneminder/events /usr/share/zoneminder/www/events none defaults,bind 0 2 /mnt/raid6/zoneminder/images /usr/share/zoneminder/www/images none defaults,bind 0 2 Please note: when gentoo installs zoneminder it puts symlinks from /usr/share/zoneminde...

You are talking about this: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Using_a_ded ... Hard_Drive

I followed that, it does not work. Once I implement that, all existing recordings go away and new ones won't happen.

I think there's something else going on.

I've been suffering with a problem for quite some time and I've isolated it down to one issue, but I don't understand the cause. I'm running Gentoo, ZM 1.28.1 and its working great on an mpeg4 1080P camera, as long as I allow the events to be stored on my ssd in the same folder as the zoneminder www...

Whelp. I completely blew it away, including /usr/share/zoneminder, the database, /var/lib/zoneminder, etc. gentoo puts symlinks for events and images in the usr/share/zoneminder/www folder that links to /var/lib/zoneminder/events and /var/lib/zoneminder/images. Those files were not automatically cre...

Thanks for the help. My answers: 1) 1.28.1. Originally I installed from source on my gentoo linux server, but since it stopped working (similar symptoms) I removed the database and installed from ebuild since 1.28.1 is now in portage. 2) emerge zoneminder From the web console: "ZoneMinder Conso...