ZM 1.22.2 corrupt JPEG data:, no events, mighty pissed off

bainssu · Post by **bainssu** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:32 am

Hi,

Unfortunately someone pinched stuff from my car whilst the cameras were running and I have no events fired ... nothing at all ... real bummer..!!!!

I recently updated zoneminder to 1.22.2, I have 3 ip cameras ip Kamera 9060 SL from (www.aviosys.com) that were working fine with a hacked perl script that I had put together. However with 1.22.2 I get no events being fired even though the event window shows alarm states etc I have 1 of the cams set to mocord and the other 2 set to modect.

I have attached below a copy of some of the log files. any clues would be very helpful..

zmdc.log

Corrupt JPEG data: 10 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 8 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 10 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 10 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 9 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 5 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 9 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 5 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 10 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 9 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 10 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 9 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 9 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9
Corrupt JPEG data: 10 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9

zmaudit.log

07/07/06 09:18:04.469036 zmaudit[12927].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:18:04.469104 zmaudit[12927].DBG [Found filesystem monitor '13']
07/07/06 09:18:04.469218 zmaudit[12927].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:18:04.469336 zmaudit[12927].DBG [Found filesystem monitor '14']
07/07/06 09:18:04.469459 zmaudit[12927].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:18:04.816736 zmaudit[12927].INF [Found orphaned statistic records fo
r event '79']
07/07/06 09:18:04.817158 zmaudit[12927].INF [deleting]
07/07/06 09:28:04.444753 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Found database monitor '12']
07/07/06 09:28:04.445599 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:28:04.445760 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Found database monitor '13']
07/07/06 09:28:04.446328 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:28:04.446485 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Found database monitor '14']
07/07/06 09:28:04.446949 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:28:04.447317 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Found filesystem monitor '12']
07/07/06 09:28:04.447516 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:28:04.447579 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Found filesystem monitor '13']
07/07/06 09:28:04.447691 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:28:04.447748 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Found filesystem monitor '14']
07/07/06 09:28:04.447854 zmaudit[13263].DBG [Got 0 events]
07/07/06 09:28:04.796425 zmaudit[13263].INF [Found orphaned statistic records fo
r event '79']
07/07/06 09:28:04.796996 zmaudit[13263].INF [deleting]

zmwatch.log

07/06/06 08:53:13.788220 zmwatch[21385].ERR [Can't get shared memory id '7a6d200e', 14: No such file or directory]
07/06/06 08:53:13.804880 zmwatch[21385].INF [Restarting capture daemon for front_3, shared memory not valid]
07/06/06 08:53:20.926229 zmwatch[21385].INF ['zmc -m 14' started at 06/07/06 08:53:13] at /usr/local/bin/zmwatch.pl lin
e 118
07/07/06 08:58:02.463481 zmwatch[21385].INF [Restarting capture daemon for front_3, time since last capture 86414 secon
ds (1152259082-1152172668)]
07/07/06 08:58:04.293901 zmwatch[21385].INF ['zmc -m 14' stopping at 06/07/07 08:58:03]
07/07/06 09:01:14.867095 zmwatch[21385].INF [Restarting capture daemon for front_3, time since last capture 7 seconds (
1152259274-1152259267)]
07/07/06 09:01:17.943380 zmwatch[21385].INF ['zmc -m 14' stopping at 06/07/07 09:01:16]

regards

Surj

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:28 pm

Hi Surj,

I'm sorry to hear about your misfortune. I'm not sure I'm quite sure about what works on your system and what doesn't. You mentioned that the states were working but were you able to view streams?

bainssu · Post by **bainssu** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:34 pm

Hi,

I can see alarm events being fired in the view window but no event is written out.

regards

Surj

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:09 pm

and you cant view live streams?
id also check your db

bainssu · Post by **bainssu** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:12 pm

I can view the stream ok and event alarms are raised but I don't see any new events.

bainssu · Post by **bainssu** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:13 pm

Database was dropped when I installed 1.22.2 .. so they should be good..

bainssu · Post by **bainssu** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:24 pm

I've just archived all of the events

deleted the events folders
dropped the database

recreated the database
recreated the monitors and I'm getting events ...

just a shame it wasn't working when I most needed it..!

Surj

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:49 pm

Maybe we could learn from this and have some sort of general fault that we could either send or setof a local buzzer alarm if for any reasson things are not perfect?

Flash_ · Post by **Flash_** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:43 am

That's a good idea, or to email the admin when a camara is down or not saving events for a period of time?

I use nagios for monitoring the cams to see whether they're still there, but occasionally one will hang and respond to pings, yet not provide a feed - or zm is unable to find the feed and blackscreens it.

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:29 pm

I have just done a big implementation of nagios (bit of a learning curve there

) and am looking to see if there are any custom plugins that could be created to check for image capture and events etc. Along with cpu, disk and http etc this would help to alert of any kind of issue.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:41 pm

Yes please Phil. I currently use nagios to check things but only http alive really

**edit
I know ive mentioned it in passing before, but if we have a local plugin for nagios that check various things could we also turn on the mobo buzzer under a fault condition. People tend to notice a damn thing buzzing and let you know. Not becuase its its warning them of something they just tell you cos its p!ssing them off!!

Ruler · Post by **Ruler** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:32 pm

I'm not familiar with Nagios, but something I've thought of several times in the past few months is to create a script that would temporarily suspend ZM at a set time, run check table commands on all the tables, and then restart ZM. It would detect database corruption and if found, an e-mail could be sent to the admin to alert them. (Every time I've had a problem with events not recording, it's turned out to be database corruption.)

I also thought that a flag could be added that, if corruption is detected, would automatically run repair table commands on the corrupted tables.