Beginners Problem

[goddi]

Hi!
I Installed ZoneMinder on a well working Centos 7 on Biostar ITX mainboard with an atomlike AMD processor.

(Centos 7 works well also http mysql samba cifs - i used it for testing a serverapplication before)

I had some minor problems installing ZoneMinder.

Now i hope i have my last. When i try to start systemctl start zoneminder

the message is

[Server@linux ~]$ systemctl status zoneminder.service
● zoneminder.service - ZoneMinder CCTV recording and security system
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Di 2016-05-17 11:43:25 CEST; 15s ago
Process: 3048 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start (code=exited, status=255)
[Server@linux ~]$ journalctl -xe
No journal files were found.
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what can i do wrong? do i neet a vendor preset first?

[martinanth]

Hi Goddi,
I have ZM 1.29.0 installed on CentOS 7 and it works well.
It looks like you have a linux problem, not a ZoneMinder issue.

Is your journaling system running at all?

Execute "systemctl status systemd-journald.service"

What is the output of 'ls -l /run/systemd/journal'. Are there any files listed?
I also suggest, that you try running the same commands as root.

Output from my system

# systemctl status systemd-journald.service
● systemd-journald.service - Journal Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-05-23 11:01:57 NZST; 36min ago
Docs: man:systemd-journald.service(8)
man:journald.conf(5)
Main PID: 724 (systemd-journal)
Status: "Processing requests..."
CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-journald.service
└─724 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald

When journaling is running, you can work out the root cause of your problem