Broken images with Ubuntu 7.10 ZM 1.22.3 package

jonatha · Post by **jonatha** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:44 pm

I installed the zoneminder package using adept from the universe/net section and set everything up but all I get for images (still or motion) is broken image links....

I'm using D-Link DCS-900 webcams. Everything works just fine on an openSuSE 10.1 box, so obviously I've misconfigured something or failed to install something I need, but I don't know what. I have both libjpeg62 and netpbm. zms and nph-zms are in /usr/lib/cgi-bin (and it doesn't work with either one of them).

I do see a ['zmc -m 6' exited abnormally, exit status 255] message in zmdc.log, but I believe that's related to a monitor I have in the red (which I will try to fix once the immediate problem is overcome).

rDr4g0n · Post by **rDr4g0n** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:39 am

im setting up an ubuntu install with 1.22.x also... i was messing around and broke all my links too with the weirdest thing: i enabled login authentication. After turning that off, the streams and stuff worked again. If you have that enabled, disable it and see if that works.

its in options then system and its "ZM_OPT_USE_AUTH"
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Post by **cordel** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:41 am

Like rDr4g0n says, turn Auth off or set to plain, it's brocken in the deb universe ATM and the packagers (Peter is aware of it and working to solve the problem).
Else you will have to check the apache log as zms is run though apache so most errors related to it will show up in apache.

jonatha · Post by **jonatha** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:50 am

cordel wrote:Like rDr4g0n says, turn Auth off or set to plain

Thank you both, this sounds quite promising.

What does "setting authorization to plain" mean exaclty?

Post by **cordel** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:01 pm

Means the password is sent in Plaain Text over the internet.

jonatha · Post by **jonatha** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:25 pm

Changing to plain authorization (Options/System ZM_CONFIG_USE_AUTH checked, ZM_AUTH_RELAY set to plain) seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks again.

PeterHoward · Post by **PeterHoward** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:57 pm

Which version of the package are you using? The problem with the forms of authentication other than "plain" is, to my knowledge, fixed in zoneminder_1.22.3-10

PJH

jonatha · Post by **jonatha** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:18 am

1.22.3-7, which apparently is what's in the ubuntu universe/net repository...

PeterHoward · Post by **PeterHoward** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:31 am

jonatha wrote:1.22.3-7, which apparently is what's in the ubuntu universe/net repository...

Damn, I thought they'd got further ahead there (though there is a Hardy freeze which is complicating things).

You can pull the 1.22.3-10 from ftp://ftp.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder and then a dpkg -i of it should upgrade nicely.

PJH

rDr4g0n · Post by **rDr4g0n** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:29 am

PeterHoward wrote:
jonatha wrote:1.22.3-7, which apparently is what's in the ubuntu universe/net repository...
Damn, I thought they'd got further ahead there (though there is a Hardy freeze which is complicating things).

You can pull the 1.22.3-10 from ftp://ftp.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder and then a dpkg -i of it should upgrade nicely.

PJH

that will be quite useful for me, i wanted to get the authentication goin since mine is gonna be facing the net

thanks a ton for the contributions!!

[update] worked like a charm! thanks again!
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Quentin · Post by **Quentin** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:37 pm

Thanks for the information about authentication breaking the picture. I just built a system the same as you with Ubuntu 7.10.

It seemed to be working (albeit with a memory leak) then I could not show the images. (Picture of a broken link).

I was about to try and buy a CCTV appliance. You have restored a bit of faith in ZM. Now I will have to try and write a programe to reboot the PC every night to get round the memory leak, until I can figure out how to load a newer version of zm into Ubuntu.

rDr4g0n · Post by **rDr4g0n** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:24 pm

Quentin wrote:Thanks for the information about authentication breaking the picture. I just built a system the same as you with Ubuntu 7.10.

It seemed to be working (albeit with a memory leak) then I could not show the images. (Picture of a broken link).

I was about to try and buy a CCTV appliance. You have restored a bit of faith in ZM. Now I will have to try and write a programe to reboot the PC every night to get round the memory leak, until I can figure out how to load a newer version of zm into Ubuntu.

ya know i have the same memory leak issue. its seems to happen kinda randomly. sometimes i come home and all of the swap and system memory are full... pretty weird.

you can probably write a little cron script to reboot daily pretty easily for it.
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PeterHoward · Post by **PeterHoward** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:33 pm

rDr4g0n wrote: ya know i have the same memory leak issue. its seems to happen kinda randomly. sometimes i come home and all of the swap and system memory are full... pretty weird.

you can probably write a little cron script to reboot daily pretty easily for it.

I've had that leak in the past, but not for a long time. I've always thought the problem was in Apache rather than Zoneminder.

Quentin · Post by **Quentin** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:55 am

It could be Apache, but I only just built the zm on Ubuntu 7.10, and obviously got the latest Apache. Apache is so widely used I would be surprised if it was allowed to have a memory leak for long.

I used a little program to monitor the memory leak, it displays it on screen and writes it to a log file.

while true
do
sleep 60
echo " "
date >>$HOME/free.log
date
free >>$HOME/free.log
free
done

It might be of interest if anyone else wants to monitor memory leaks.
Regards Quentin

sl666 · Post by **sl666** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:42 pm

PeterHoward wrote:
jonatha wrote:1.22.3-7, which apparently is what's in the ubuntu universe/net repository...
Damn, I thought they'd got further ahead there (though there is a Hardy freeze which is complicating things).

You can pull the 1.22.3-10 from ftp://ftp.northern-ridge.com.au/zoneminder and then a dpkg -i of it should upgrade nicely.

PJH

i did this to fix my authbroken image issues, and now the images are broken no matter what i do