ZM fails to start at boot

[camsystem]

I have an existing installation of ZM 1.24.2 working great on top of Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS 32 bit. Upgraded to ZM 1.24.4 and everything seems to be working OK. I had to create my cameras but that was no problem. Only issue I have left is that when I reboot the server ZM fails to start automatically. I have to connect to ZM over web and then start ZM. Server has now ran over night with no issues. I have confirmed via web admin that ZM is set to start at boot. Checked logs, dmesg, syslog, & messages, but cannot find anything to indicate why ZM does not start at boot.
Can anyone give me an idea of why ZM does not start at boot since the upgrade to 1.24.4?

Thanks in advance.

[PacoLM]

I think is a know topic, something like ZM starting before mysql. The fix was adding a sleep 10 in the /etc/init.d/zoneminder startup file:

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start() {
        echo -n "Starting $prog: "
-->    sleep 10
        $command start
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
        [ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
        return $RETVAL
}

Give it try or search the forum, I'm writing from memory, I could be wrong.
Hope it helps,

PacoLM

[camsystem]

Thanks a heap PacoLM
I will give that a try.

[camsystem]

Put

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sleep 10

into the startup but ZM still will not start on a reboot. O' well it was a good tip that I will remember. Still researching the issue. Any other ideas will be appreciated.

[camsystem]

Updated all packages on server as follows: The following packages will be upgraded:
base-files libapache2-mod-php5 libldap-2.4-2 libldap2-dev php5-common
php5-mysql
Ran make install

Still cannot get ZM to start on boot buts seems to work. It would be useful to be able to start and stop ZM from the command line. I have tried the following:
service zoneminder start zoneminder: unrecognized service
service zm start zm: unrecognized service
zoneminder start zoneminder: command not found
zm start zm: command not found
Tried the commands from the /etc/init.d/ directory but got the same results.


Anybody got any ideas or know some different way to get ZM to start and stop from the command line???? or why ZM is not starting on boot???
Thanks in advance as all ideas are appreciated.

[PacoLM]

To run ZM as a service, install chkconfig or rcconf, then select zoneminder to startup at boot. The command line to start zm is usually

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service zoneminder start

or

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service zm start

, depending on how you install it / compile it.

[camsystem]

That is what I thought PacoLM. I have tried both of these commands.

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service zoneminder start

zoneminder: unrecognized service

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service zm start

zm: unrecognized service

Weird! Maybe this is somehow tied to why ZM does not start from boot. Always starts just fine from web console.

Thanks anyway PacoLM. Any other ideas will be welcome.

[zSeries]

I had this problem too, Zoneminder was starting before mysql and so failed to start at boot. Try this

update-rc.d -f zoneminder remove
then
update-rc.d zoneminder defaults 92

[camsystem]

Thanks for the suggestion zseries (sounds like IBM?) Since this is my experimental box, I decided to through caution to the wind, Tried the suggestion even though I do not understand what was trying to accomplish.

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update-rc.d -f zoneminder remove

Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/zoneminder ...
Died at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 57.

Did not look promising but tried the second line anyway

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update-rc.d zoneminder defaults 92

update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/zoneminder: file does not exist

Hmmmmmm maybe the syntax is wrong.

No change in the way ZM behaves. ZM does not start at boot but can be started from the web console. ZM works great after it is up and running. If ZM was trying to start before SQL would not I see some errors in /var/log/messages or one of the ZM logs? was the syntax wrong?

[PacoLM]

Maybe you do not have the startup script, check if you have one of these files:

ls -l /etc/init.d/zoneminder
ls -l /etc/init.d/zm

If so, check that the paths are ok, and correspond to your system.