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turns out it was a debian package error i had thought maybe the temp dir was missing so i made one and when i went to update that was the case it was missing as the new package made one Preparing to replace zoneminder 1.22.3-8 (using .../zoneminder_1.22.3-10_i386.deb) ... Stopping ZoneMinder ...

Warning: fopen(temp/zmFileList.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /usr/share/zoneminder/zm_export_funcs.php on line 303 Can't open event export list file 'temp/zmFileList.txt' Some how as the error shows zm does not have permission to create or read that folder/file ...

Warning: fopen(temp/zmFileList.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /usr/share/zoneminder/zm_export_funcs.php on line 303 Can't open event export list file 'temp/zmFileList.txt' above is the error i get when trying to export 1 or more events -- i can not tell if the ...

it was a permission problem on /var/lib/php5
it needed to have permission
for the web user (debian is www-data) to write the session id

the problem had to do with moving the var directory to a separate disk
so it was not zm's problem

I know the answer is in the forum but i can not find it --i have read it before.
instead of displaying video zm.php requests to open as file.
zm 1.22.3 debian sid
rob

getting php5 permission errors can't open session zm 1.22.3 debian this was clean reinstall os and zm and it was working tried zmfix no log errors in zm -- all syslog messages apache access or error Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/var/lib/php5/sess ...

thanks that worked I was trying to avoid the 777 club/stick

which user from with in zmc is accessing /dev/video0
making zmuser a system user does not fix the problem
rob

zm does not have permission to use /dev/video0
from the system log
zmdc log shows video0 crashing on a regular basis

current ownership of /dev/video0 is root and video
i have added www-data to the video group zmuser is not a system user should it be?
zm 1.23 from debian pkg

rob

With a debian install on debian sid 1.22.3
Any idea why i can display the zoneminder web page and but don't appear
to be accessing apache -- no access .log and the error is a continuous
stream file does not exist /htdocs
everything works but the video display and xautv comes right up and works
rob

this is a debian install 1.22.3 i think the below error is the main problem the zoneminder web page appears ok dmseg looks good for the hardware all the zm logs look good xautv comes right up the only log error is in apache below-- one thing funny is no access log for apache which i think that is ...

I don't understand the apache errors because the zm web pages appear
to work i.e. i can enter change and configure. The errors only show up once. the video portion of the the display has an over-laid time stamp with fps
the zm logs are still clean
rob

very sorry there are apache errors -- the zm web does appear with no errors mentioned PHP Warning: mime_magic: type search/400 \\input text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: mime_magic: type search/400 \\section text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: mime_magic: type ...

apache is up and running no apache errors in the logs i'm watching the box on my machine via a ssh tunnel just a flat black display for all of the cameras

I have a new slightly working zm built from source with hardware that was working on that box. Zm will start with no errors in the logs but all i get is a black screen showing fps. I have had interupt storms where zm was missing interrupts and the logs showed buffer over runs. I only have ssh access ...