permissions error - fresh install ubuntu 9.10

[floppyraid]

greetings.

i am using one of the 'pico2000' cards. a fresh install of ubuntu 9.10 (installed less than 3 hours ago). installed zm v1.24.2 from sources, followed a different guide this time than i did last time, but the steps were virtually identical.... in both cases i am NOT using the shared memory, it was ./configured using --enable-mmap


so, my main problem was once again, 'broken' images being loaded on the live cam view. same problem i had before that caused me to set everything up from scratch again. i can view the 'montage' view just fine because it is displaying via the java applet- but the normal live cam views usually show the 1st frame and then just show broken images.

heres the syslog:

Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmdc[1236]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmdc[1535]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at 10/02/22 23:19:23]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmdc[1236]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 10/02/22 23:19:23, pid = 1535]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmc_dvideo0[1535]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zma_m3[1272]: WAR [Waiting for capture daemon]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zma_m2[1265]: WAR [Waiting for capture daemon]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmc_dvideo0[1535]: INF [Starting Capture]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmc_dvideo0[1535]: FAT [Failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied]
Feb 22 23:19:23 oheyesea zmdc[1236]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]



if i

chmod 777 /dev/video0

it works!

but the permission change does not last across reboots! and thus this box would be very problematic in a production environment where i have to babysit it every time the power goes out

any help would be extremely appreciated--- even if your help is simply "install this old version of ((insert distro here)) and this old version of zm"

[floppyraid]

i thought it was a little bit less broken than last time, but its not.

if i try to view past recorded events the images are just broken.


i get this in my apache error.log


[Mon Feb 22 23:29:59 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.123] File does not exist: /var/www/home, referer: http://192.168.1.201:8080/index.php?vie ... 1=1&page=1
[Mon Feb 22 23:30:05 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.123] socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-029607s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory, referer: http://192.168.1.201:8080/index.php?vie ... 1=1&page=1
[Mon Feb 22 23:30:05 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.123] array (\n 0 => \n array (\n 'file' => '/var/www/ajax/stream.php',\n 'line' => 55,\n 'function' => 'ajaxError',\n 'args' => \n array (\n 0 => 'socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-029607s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory',\n ),\n ),\n 1 => \n array (\n 'file' => '/var/www/index.php',\n 'line' => 119,\n 'args' => \n array (\n 0 => '/var/www/ajax/stream.php',\n ),\n 'function' => 'require_once',\n ),\n), referer: http://192.168.1.201:8080/index.php?vie ... 1=1&page=1
[Mon Feb 22 23:30:08 2010] [error] [client 192.168.1.123] socket_sendto( /tmp/zms-029607s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory, referer: http://192.168.1.201:8080/index.php?vie ... 1=1&page=1

[th]

if i

chmod 777 /dev/video0

I know this isn't a fix for the problem you have. But if your work around of chmod works then you could just add the above chmod to your /etc/rc.local file. And then it would be set at startup during each reboot.

[mastertheknife]

Hi,

ZoneMinder needs to run as root. In most distros you just add the zoneminder service to your runlevel and it should do the job.

If you are running ZoneMinder in other user than root, need to make sure that user is part of the "video" group, and if not, add it!

mastertheknife.

[cordel]

Actually, DO Not Run AS ROOT. The correct methods are to either set UID (Sticky user) of zmfix to root, or for your distro I believe you add it to the video group is the correct method.