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Reviewing the logs like Peter mentioned should help. I've found there are a number of reasons why a camera might not run (the camera profile displays red when there is a problem with its settings). Anyway, you might check the thread I referenced and the video0 problem. If you are using the same rev ...

Hi again. I have been messing with this on and off over the last few days. I have a little more feedback. I had the problem where video0 properties were messed up. This thread had the fix. http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8621 When I installed an axis 214 at 640x480 I had to follow ...

OK, I removed the package again. Scanned the entire drive for zm, zoneminder etc and deleted all of that. Reinstalled and everything works. I think there were more left overs from past installs.

Thanks for all of the support. A wonderful app and package!
Ryan

I doubt this is a problem with the ubuntu package but I was hoping for general ideas. I am able to monitor cameras and in modect zm is recording events and some have motion. If I try to view an event or an image I get nothing. I can see the events in the db and directories for them on the hd but no ...

I figured out I was wrong but thought I would hold off on posting a correction because I imagined I would be wrong about more of what I said (that I need to think more before posting). I finally realized I had the script 'zoneminder' (I was using 'zm' before). This may have caused some problems last ...

Hi again Peter. I just wanted to let you know... I created the zm/html directory I was getting errors about. This allowed the package to install successfully. I did end up finding the note about having to create the symbolic link (readme.debian). Finally, I learned I also have to create the startup ...

I think someone else that knows more will weigh in. There are a few wiki's that detail the steps of installing zm on ubuntu. I've manually installed 3 times. There are certain dependencies that don't seem to be covered in the wiki instructions though. Each time I spend hours searching posts trying ...

I never really knew there was a zm/html dir. I remember seeing this recently when I went to upgrade (before trying your package). I think one of the wiki's set this as a path to configure or something. It also may have been in my startup script. Anyway, if there is any info I can provide let me know ...

OK, I am still hoping to have more time on this tonight... I don't think I have enough experience to have an opinion on creating the link. It seems like some steps should be taken to avoid confusion and questions when someone like me installs the package though. Most of the packages I've kept were ...

OK, the monitor started so ignore the last post. I will try to test everything this evening. Thank you for taking the time to make the package and helping me out!
Ryan

So, that gets zm up and running! I think this was my big problem because I remember zm "installing" in previous attempts and I was just confused why the code wasn't there and the browser didn't work. Can/should the installer do this? Anyway, the database problems were probably a side effect of ...

zmuser wasn't in the user table.

The reinstall reported success and didn't give any errors. The database and user are in mysql.

I still don't get zm via the browser. /var/www/zm and its html sub are empty.

Ryan

I believe the purge worked but I got similar error messages (shown below). The database was gone. Thanks. Ryan ryan@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --purge zoneminder Password: (Reading database ... 112357 files and directories currently installed.) Removing zoneminder ... Stopping ZoneMinder: DBI connect ...

How did you install mysql? I believe it was there from the original ubuntu installation. I use apt-get or synaptic to install/update. mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -f reload cat /usr/share/zoneminder/zm_create.sql | mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf echo 'grant select ...

The package attempts to create the database from scratch; I'm not 100% sure what's going wrong here, but if there's not zm database at all in mysql it should create it properly (and yes, the default username & passwd are used in the package) I am using 1.22.3-6 that I downloaded from your site ...