Unable to access console - Fresh Installation

[Thompson1423]

SOLVED:

I have just completed my second attempt to install ZoneMinder on a new Raspberry Pi 4B following instructions here: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-zoneminder/; here: https://raspberrytips.com/install-zonem ... pberry-pi/; and here: https://zoneminder.readthedocs.io/en/la ... 1-bullseye on 64 Bit Bullseye.

I got past the "authentication not turned on" error but following instructions I located on this forum, however I simply get returned to the same login screen over and over and can't get past it with any combination of Username and Password I have tried.

Clearly I have messed up somewhere, but could sure use some direction on this. My Google skills are letting me down on this one.

Thanks,
David T
Thompson1423

[dougmccrary]

You should probably start over and use the wiki - third of your list. That should work. Forget the first two you list.

[bbunge]

Here are instructions that work for Debian 11 on PC or RPI.

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Debian_11_B ... der_1.36.x

For your RPI I would recommend the 64 bit OS. Use Mariadb instead of MySQL.
These entries for the database server are not really necessary but I put them in as the worked for me:
innodb_file_per_table = ON
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 256M
innodb_log_file_size = 64M

Use the light version of PiOS as the desktop version adds overhead that you do not need with Zoneminder

It is possible to install the 32 bit version on Bookworm with the same install script. I suspect it may be possible to install the 64 bit version on bookworm but the database will have to be manually created.

[Thompson1423]

Thanks for the comments. I did as suggested installing Debian 11 and now have ZoneMinder running. I was surprised to see the coding differences between Debian and Raspian, but have sorted out the minor difficulties I ran into. Thanks again to both of you.

David T