[UPDATED] worked great for a few weeks, now just stops

x0SiN0x · Post by **x0SiN0x** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:24 pm

I noticed some funky events being logged by one of my cameras - I say funky due to the timestamp and frame count (I dont have the exact info anymore as I deleted them thinking it may be the problem. but the date was listed as happening in 1969 and over a million frames).

when I view a camera I see in the logs
Jul 16 09:17:00 zoneminder zms[5734]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Jul 16 09:17:00 zoneminder zms[5734]: INF [Authenticated user 'admin']
Jul 16 09:17:00 zoneminder zms[5734]: WAR [Shared data not initialised by capture daemon, some query functions may not be available or produce invalid results]
Jul 16 09:17:00 zoneminder zms[5734]: WAR [Unable to store frame as shared memory invalid]

So restarting seems to fix the issue for a few seconds but then the camera screen goes black and the errors start again.

had some issues with shared memory before so upped the shmmax to 524288000 which solved that problem (when going from capturing 320x280 to 704x480). Been running like this for a few days, now seems to have lost its mind with no other changes.

running ubuntu 9.04 and zm 1.24.1 (installed via apt-get) and a gig of ram.

ive done some searches on my error, but not finding anything relating to my issue.

*** EDIT ***
ive now also changed my configuration back to the smaller screen capture size and getting the same error.

*** EDIT 2 ***
so after compiling from source im back to where I was. Will let it sit for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the input!

johnnytolengo · Post by **johnnytolengo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:33 pm

How did you install via "apt-get install zoneminder" ?

Is it really 1.24.2 ? or 1.23.x ?

x0SiN0x · Post by **x0SiN0x** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:22 pm

1.23.x was installed via apt-get, didnt have much luck with that so updated to 1.24.1 with a package found.

i finally gave up and installing from source right now. I cant for the life of me figure out what would of happened - nothing was changed which was odd.

curtishall · Post by **curtishall** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:30 pm

x0SiN0x wrote:1.23.x was installed via apt-get, didnt have much luck with that so updated to 1.24.1 with a package found.

i finally gave up and installing from source right now. I cant for the life of me figure out what would of happened - nothing was changed which was odd.

Which package did you use?

Make sure you do apt-get remove --purge zoneminder or else the database / files will remain