No stream, no still: zmc -d 0 crashes

[tstier0809]

Hi,

I have installed ZM on a SuSe 9.3 with Apache 2, and I am using an IP camera @ 640 x 480 as 10.0.0.9 in my network. I can see a stream if I point my browser (Firefox) to http://10.0.0.9/jview.htm.

Both "function" and "source" are shown in green in the ZM console with "function" set to record, and source set to:
Remote Host Name: 10.0.0.9
Port: 80
Remote Host Path: /jview.htm

HOWEVER (no the trouble starts...)
- if I start watch, I get no stills and no streams.

Looking into the logs, these logs seem fine:
* zmfilter.log says "scanning for events"
* zmaudit.log found "... found database monitor '2'
* zmpkg.log reports the start of:
zmc -m 2
zma -m 2
zmfilter.pl
zmaudit.pl -d 900 -y
zmwatch.pl
with no problems.

BUT: ZMDC.LOG reports the following:

zmc -d 0' starting at 05/08/03 08:26:10, pid = 10073
zmc -d 0' crashed at 05/08/03 08:26:10, exit status 255
zmc -m 2' died at 05/08/03 08:34:57, signal 10
zmc -m 2' starting at 05/08/03 08:34:57, pid = 10126
zmc -m 2' started at 05/08/03 08:34:57
Starting pending process, zmc -d 0
zmc -d 0' started at 05/08/03 08:36:10
zmc -d 0' starting at 05/08/03 08:36:10, pid = 10130
zmc -d 0' crashed at 05/08/03 08:36:10, exit status 255

This starting, crashing and dying is going on...

I have no clue what to do now - any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

[steven43126]

i appear to have a similar problem, i can get a good picture using xawtv. But i don't get any stills,
or streams from the web interface. I have the following in my zmdc.log

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 141.
'zmfilter.pl ' crashed at 05/08/03 11:12:01, exit status 2
'zmtrigger.pl ' crashed at 05/08/03 11:12:01, exit status 13
'zmwatch.pl ' stopping at 05/08/03 11:12:06
'zmwatch.pl ' died at 05/08/03 11:12:06, signal 14
'zmc -d 0' stopping at 05/08/03 11:12:06
'zmc -d 0' died at 05/08/03 11:12:06
'zmaudit.pl -d 900 -y' stopping at 05/08/03 11:12:06
'zmaudit.pl -d 900 -y' died at 05/08/03 11:12:06, signal 14
Server shutdown at 05/08/03 11:12:16
Server starting at 05/08/03 11:23:57
Can't find process with command of 'zmc -d 0'
'zmc -d 0' started at 05/08/03 11:24:00
'zmc -d 0' starting at 05/08/03 11:24:00, pid = 11811
Can't find process with command of 'zma -m 5'

Any help would be greatly appricieated.

[tstier0809]

Hi Steven,

I had the zmfilter crash at line 141 previously, and I got this sorted out by making sure I have all the perl modules installed. Especially all perl modules that deal with date/time calculations.

Maybe this takes you to next step...

Ciao

[steven43126]

thanks for the input, the error i was getting was due to Date/Manip.pm not been installed.
After fixing that i realised i had set the wrong path to zms in the initial config.

After fixing that...
I still got errors, and had various problems in my logs. Seemed to be zmtrigger.pl crashing out first with error 13. After disabling the ability to interface with triggers using sockets, everything seems to be running fine. Appart from a few stability issues with the bttv driver, but hey does anything ever completley work?

Thanks for the info..

And to the dev thanks for a great app.

[tstier0809]

I have this (partially) resolved - I get stills now. Problem was that my camera (TRUST NW IP camera) needs authentication in the form
<username>:<password>@ip_address. So not a ZM issue, but related to the camera - not documented anywhere in the cam manuals...

I only get 320x240 pics, setting both camera and ZM to 640x480 results in a black screen with a funny timestanp: 70/01/01 1:00:00