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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 ...

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 ...

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"). From the console, "ps ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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!

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 ...

...and did you figure out which of the things you did fixed the problem, and what the problem actually was?

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 ...

@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 ...

@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?

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 ...