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tcarmen wrote:FWIW, I had the exact same problem (on Suse), and "aa-complain *" made the vanishing socket problem vanish.

Since the box doesn't run any non-ZM processes and isn't publicly accessible, I don't really care if it's running SELinux (in fact, I'd prefer that it not, since any overhead is wasted).

Terry

I take back what I said.

It seemed stable for a little while, but it was just a pause in the freezes. It's just as bad as it eve was, even with apparmor disabled.

Since apache is generally as stable as anything on the planet. I have to beleive that ZM is doing something unexpected or weird.

Does anybody have a fix for this? It's not much use having web based software that requires ssh-ing to the box for restarts all the time.

Terry

did you end up solving this issue?

Upgrading with reinstall to 1.24.2 fixes this 99.99% for me.

I have my Zoneminder 1.24.2 on fresh Ubuntu 9.10 server x64 install, followed this excellent guide, when compiling: http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.ph ... ola-0.7%29
and
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=55152.

After sometime Firefox did not want to show the monitors page on client machine until apache2 restart.

I was very surprised when I figured it out, that Seamonkey http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/ works fine. I don't know for other browsers, but it looks like it's not apache2, but Firefox that fails.

Will this help you guys?

SeaMonkey 1.1.17 also stalls, but quite rarely, not as often as Firefox 3.5.

I noticed, that changing streaming method to mpeg (swf?) helps a lot, but still it does not fix the problem.

Is there any progress being made in solving this problem?

I am running Zoneminder 1.24.2 and get the browser "Waiting for host" hanging problems after I try to view an alarm event. It occurs regardless of whether accessing from a remote machine or on the Zoneminder host itself. I am using Firefox and the problem makes Zoneminder practically unusable.

Which work arounds are working for people? Is it necessary to use a different browser or stream using ffmpeg instead of nph-zms?

On Ubuntu I think I have solved this problem with a
*hopefully*

edit: Nope, it was just teasing.......and for the record mine does it infrequently on the LAN, but *very* regularly on WAN. I'm thinking of downgrading to 1.23 which works great at my other site.

Okay, I seem to have stopped this problem with all of the browsers I have in my arsenal.

I changed the Apache global server configuration (processes and limits) using Webmin to the following:

Maximum requests per server process: 10
Minimum spare server processes: 5
Maximum spare server processes: 10
Initial server processes:10

Good Luck, hope this helps.

edit: This made it usable, but it's not a long term fix. Still crashing 50% if I close the window while it's streaming.

Frustrated to the point of downgrading. 1.23.3 is running much smoother than any of the 1.24.x versions.

I guess I'll wait to upgrade until the next patch comes out.

I did a fresh ubuntu install and used the new package 1.24.2 see user contribs.

and I have had ff running with a zoneminder stream running for the last 3 days and have had no issues. I think this may have been resolved.