Zoneminder hangs - no responce from the browser

tanner · Post by **tanner** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:29 am

This not necessarily a zoneminder problem but when I am viewing events the event will stop and the browser window will have the message about transfering data from etc. Most of the time it will start again after a wait of up to a couple of minutes. Occasionally (like now) it will not recover and I cannot look at other events or even logout. If I try to logout the box appears but does not get populated. I restarted ZM, mysql and apache (after running mysqlcheck) and the system was all right for a 10 minutes but stopped again.

Before I thought it may have been my wireless connection and router but that has not caused any problems with any Internet connection today. I have checked system, zm, mysql and apache logs and cannot see anything wrong. The pc is not busy with 87% idle on the CPU. The versions I run are below. Anybody got any idea where the problem may lie.

Zoneminder 1.23.3
mysql 5
apache 2.2.8

Firefox 3.0.1

kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r8

kevin_robson · Post by **kevin_robson** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:33 pm

Firefox 3.0.1
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11775
Its not compatible. There's a few threads. Try using seamonkey just for ZM.

Lee Sharp · Post by **Lee Sharp** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:27 pm

FF3 does not close mjpeg streams, so it can fill your system. (each end) Reboot the browser to clear one end. Run 'sudo apache2ctl restart' to clear the other. I am just about to put 'sudo apache2ctl restart' in chron over this crap. I can't believe they released it like that, and STILL haven't patched it.

lookie · Post by **lookie** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:02 am

Thanks for this post and followups. Thought I was loosing my mind. Swore it was network, mysql or something else. I thought I would give "Flock" browser a try but deleted all my events. I dont' have time at the moment to generate sufficient events to evaluate Flock's performance.

Seem the Firefox people were more interested in generating a download "record" and less interested in quality.

tanner · Post by **tanner** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:01 pm

thanks for the replies. I don't seem too be getting email alerts. Never mind.

Ok I will try another browser. May go back to opera. Has anyone tried it?

kevin_robson · Post by **kevin_robson** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:17 am

seamonkey works, but it is a bit rubbish

lookie · Post by **lookie** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:31 am

the flock browser works fine