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Hey guys, the problem is too related with the video capture card. If zmc cannot get video from the capture card then does not allocate the shm. And you only will be noticed about the non existence of the shm. I just was testing the capture card with xawtv (just the video cable was not working good ...

I have problems like you with shm, here the log: 11/08/08 03:57:38.784484 zmwatch[10395].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d0002', 2: No such file or directory] 11/08/08 03:57:38.784949 zmwatch[10395].INF [Restarting capture daemon for Entradas, shared memory not valid] 11/08/08 03:57:39.324205 ...

Using strace I can notice about the errors inside a program. So the error in zmc here was in the shmget function (EINVAL). That means: EINVAL A new segment was to be created and size <SHMMIN> SHMMAX, or no new segment was to be created, a segment with given key existed, but size is greater than the ...

I just forget to change the mysql socket path in the file zm_db.c Now it is working but a new problem: 18/07/08 19:47:12.553286 zmwatch[14076].INF ['zmc -d /dev/video' starting at 08/07/18 19:47:12, pid = 14158] 18/07/08 19:47:22.557204 zmwatch[14076].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d0001', 1 ...

I just read from zmpkg.log this: 07/18/08 19:22:25.947261 zmpkg[9402].INF [Command: start] 07/18/08 19:22:26.403535 zmpkg[9402].ERR [Unable to run "/usr/bin/zmfix", output is ""] 18/07/08 19:23:06.697978 zmpkg[9440].INF [Command: start] 18/07/08 19:23:07.235797 zmpkg[9440].ERR [Unable to run "sudo ...