Thanks for the Debian packages, Peter!

[PeterHoward]

i did the exit 0 and it almost worked.. Had to do it do .prerm file too.

Ooops, thanks for pointing that out.

Then i reinstalled the zoneminder deb.. but...

debian1:/tmp# dpkg -i zoneminder_1.22.3-1_i386.deb
A seleccionar pacote anteriormente não seleccionado zoneminder
(Lendo a base de dados ... 18677 ficheiros e directórios actualmente instalados.)
A descompactar zoneminder (desde zoneminder_1.22.3-1_i386.deb) ...
A instalar zoneminder (1.22.3-1) ...
Starting ZoneMinder: DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','zmuser',...) failed: Access denied for user 'zmuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 89
Can't call method "prepare_cached" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 91.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 100.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 45.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 45.
failure

invoke-rc.d: initscript zoneminder, action "start" failed.
dpkg: erro processando zoneminder (--install):
subprocesso post-installation script retornou erro do status de saída 255
Foram encontrados erros enquanto processava:
zoneminder

It seems you need to create a zmuser in mysql...

You shouldn't have to. However . . . I've just had a look in my mysql db, and it looks like I have zmuser hanging around from my original source install experiments.

In summary: 'DOH!

Note to self: Test on CLEAN system. Note to self: Test on CLEAN system.

I'll do the very quick and dirty fix to that and update the packages, then I'll work out a cleaner fix.

[stackbit]

after

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'zmuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'zmpass';

and dpkg -P zoneminder and reinstalling zoneminder installed sucessfully.

But still.. no http://localhost/zm

[PeterHoward]

after

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'zmuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'zmpass';

and dpkg -P zoneminder and reinstalling zoneminder installed sucessfully.

But still.. no http://localhost/zm

That last bit, at least, is intentional. And there's actually documentation for that!

Take a look in /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian

I'm still in two minds as to whether to make this automatic or not.

[stackbit]

it seems that the apache2 - sites-available sites-enabled
directories do not have links to the /etc/zm/apache.conf

(correct me if i am wrong..)

Either way.. Keep up the good work, Peter.

A zoneminder package in the unstable branch would be a godsend to my zoneminder instalations. i was almost going to gentoo in some machines because of zoneminder...

maybe i will have... Damn deadlines...

Anyway thank you, and if i can be any assistance please ask.

[PeterHoward]

Anyway thank you, and if i can be any assistance please ask.

If you look at my ftp site, you'll now see the version is 1.22.3-2. Hopefully this one will install without the previous pain. I've also removed the "set -e" from the postrm for now.

If you have the scope to do a clean install of the -2 version to cross-check my sanity and make sure that problem has gone, that would be helpful.

Thanks for the detailled feedback.

[stackbit]

Read the README!

i will do the install tomorrow morning.. It's 4:00 AM in here (Portugal, Europe)

I badly need some ZZZ's.

Thankx again . I will post a reply in here.

[nodesyn]

Yes please do forgive my tone in that I was in the middle of 10 things at once as usual... and i wasn't very pleased about being stuck in dpkg hell heh.. I do appreciate your effort... I feel like an ass now

Didn't realize I was actually being rude.

[Sully]

Hello,

First of all THANKS to Peter and the makers for the package and ZM.

I did a 1.22.3-2 install on a fresh Ubuntu install this afternoon and cannot run http://localhost/zm

I get:
Not Found

The requested URL /zm was not found on this server

In a terminal window I get this permission issue:

sully@ziggy:~$ zmpkg.pl start
Can't open log file '/tmp/zmpkg.log': Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Debug.pm line 279.
sh: Syntax error: Bad fd number
Password:

I am breaking away from years as a Windows user (Network Admin) and have discovered the wonderful word of Linux. Any help with the above would be great!

Thanks to you all.

Sully

[Sully]

After several hours of education I am figuring this out.

I solved the "Syntax error: Bad fd number" problem from this source:
http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_6.10

The reinstall went without any errors, but still no http://localhost/zm

After reading through this thread, I tried:
dpkg -P zoneminder
Then tried to reinstall and now I don't have rights to install.

This trying...

Sully

[PeterHoward]

The reinstall went without any errors, but still no http://localhost/zm
Sully

As I said above, take a look in /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian

I'm now leaning towards making this an automatic step.

PJH

[Sully]

Hi Peter,

As I said above, take a look in /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian

I sure did and see the instructions to link apache.conf to zoneminder.conf, but I can't get that far anymore. After I preformed this:
dpkg -P zoneminder
I cannot reinstall the package.

I get this error when trying to reinstall the package:
"The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file. Check the permissions of the file"

I downloaded a new one and still get error.

Is there a way to reverse this action?

Sully

[Sully]

Peter,

I took out the references to ZM in /var/lib/dpkg/status and was once again able to install the package.

Can you step me through how to 'link' apache.conf to zoneminder.conf ?

Not bad for my first Linux install (to be ex-Windower) Google is an awesome tool!!!

Thank you - I'm almost there

Sully

[PeterHoward]

Before I reply to the specific question, I'd like to thank everyone who's trying this package. The result will be a much better package. And it stopped me (hopefully) putting a fatally flawed package into debian unstable.

Now to the linking question.

Change directory to /etc/apache2/conf.d

Then type "ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf zm.conf"

That will create a link called zm.conf in /etc/apache2/conf.d pointing to the config snippet for zoneminder.

If you look at the contents of /etc/zm/apache.conf, the key line is the very first one - "Alias /zm /usr/share/zoneminder". Apache2 will load all conf files in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ at startup. This results in requests to http://{your machine}/zm to look in /usr/share/zoneminder for the web content to load.

[Sully]

Still not working... this is what I have done:

Fresh install of Ubuntu 6.10
Installed MySQL (and dependence)
Created MySQL user: zmuser with pass: zmpass
Opened zoneminder_1.22.3-2_i386.deb using GDedi Package Installer
- Installer installed Apache 2, PHP4 and Perl along with other progs
- Installer installed ZM
GDedi indicated a good install
In the log it showed ZM failed to start: Syntex Error: bad fd number

To resolve the bad fd number issue:
dpkg-reconfigure dash
Select 'no'

Created the link in /etc/apache2/conf.d$ :
ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf zm.conf
Link successful

http://localhost/zm
"Not Found"

What have I missed?

Regards,
Michael

[Sully]

Alright... I got ZM to display in the browser - yeah!!

I left out the last step... reload apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Now to get some cams configured. Thanks for spelling it out for me Peter! As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am very new to the Linux world and here to stay.

Regards,
Michael