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Hello again, I have managed to compile and get zoneminder on an ubuntu machine some time ago, but without libavcodec support, so I don't get mpeg streaming. Whenever I try to compile after installing libavcodec-dev, I get these errors: /usr/lib/libavformat.a(dc1394.o): In function `dc1394_read ...

Hello, I managed to compile zoneminder from source and install it on my system, however when I access http://localhost/zm I get this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_pconnect() in /var/www/zm/zm_db.php on line 21 I am using Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper), apache 2, mysql-server 5.0.22 and ...

Hello,

The thread didn't help me out much I'm going to get a new box and do a clean Fedora Core 5 install on it along with a clean Ubuntu install and check out ZM on both. Then I'll tell the results...

Thanks for your patience

Hogface wrote:Check to see if you have free drive space on your data volume...with a df command.

Yes, I do. I have over 6gb of free space

So, to summarise. You are not getting any errors in your logs but just are not able to log in? Do you know what version of mysql you have? Basically, yes, no errors logged whatsoever... My MySQL version is 5.0.21 (5.0.21-Debian_3-log) and I've checked the databases and there is a ZM database along ...

This looks like the most obvious issue in the log. It implies that you don't have a valid mysql/php runtime library. Unfortunately I can't say for sure how to fix it but check you have php built with mysql support and you have the php-mysql libraries installed. That issue has been already resolved ...

Just to add some info:
MySQL tables are in the right places, and I tried turning on global variables, but still no results

Hello again, That file does exist. The error is because I mistyped the url once (if you notice, it should be "index.php ? &username=admin&password=admin") so I got that particular error on the error log. By typing http://127.0.0.1/zm/zm.php (or the address I posted here) I get the same login screen ...

[Thu May 11 02:52:53 2006] [error] [client 201.31.242.124] File does not exist: /var/www/robots.txt [Thu May 11 13:57:35 2006] [error] [client 201.31.242.124] File does not exist: /var/www/zm/index.php&username=admin&password=admin [Thu May 11 14:08:50 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down ...

8ace wrote:has anyone a step-by-step guide for installing onto ubuntu?
just wondering

You can pretty much follow the instructions from Debian Install Guide and you'll have zm working in ubuntu

Hello, I am experiencing the same thing (I get the login screen, try to login as admin/admin, get the "signing in" message and then get returned to the login screen). I have already restarted my computer but I still have this error. Could it be some php configuration? I'm using Ubuntu's default php5 ...