Initial setup: Black screen
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:03 pm
Hi,
I am still wrestling with the initial setup of ZM.
I now have both a USB webcam and an IP cam both of which work outside of ZM.
I started on 1.24 but was automatically upgraded to 1.25 when I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04.
The database update went smoothly.
One odd thing I notice since the upgrade is that there are no new messages
being added to /var/log/zm or /var/log/messages
e.g. even if I restart the zoneminder service.
> ls -ltr /var/log/z*
total 1364
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1781 May 14 01:18 zmupdate.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1170 May 14 08:54 zmwatch.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 546 May 14 08:57 zmfilter.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 88 May 14 09:03 zmaudit.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1371188 May 14 09:32 zmdc.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1028 May 14 11:26 zmpkg.log
I don't know where logs are going now if anywhere.
Trying the experiment suggested to test a local camera I get the same problem as
I described for 1.24:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 21&t=19192
> zmc --device /dev/video
> echo $?
255
Having a black screen seems to be a common problem for us noobs - perhaps it should go in the FAQ?:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 368#p75368
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Bruce.
I am still wrestling with the initial setup of ZM.
I now have both a USB webcam and an IP cam both of which work outside of ZM.
I started on 1.24 but was automatically upgraded to 1.25 when I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04.
The database update went smoothly.
One odd thing I notice since the upgrade is that there are no new messages
being added to /var/log/zm or /var/log/messages
e.g. even if I restart the zoneminder service.
> ls -ltr /var/log/z*
total 1364
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1781 May 14 01:18 zmupdate.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1170 May 14 08:54 zmwatch.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 546 May 14 08:57 zmfilter.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 88 May 14 09:03 zmaudit.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1371188 May 14 09:32 zmdc.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1028 May 14 11:26 zmpkg.log
I don't know where logs are going now if anywhere.
Trying the experiment suggested to test a local camera I get the same problem as
I described for 1.24:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 21&t=19192
> zmc --device /dev/video
> echo $?
255
Having a black screen seems to be a common problem for us noobs - perhaps it should go in the FAQ?:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 368#p75368
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Bruce.