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Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:34 pm**

Hello everyone,
this is my 1st post in the forum.

I'm trying to install zoneminder on Ubuntu 8.04.

Here's what I did:

1) sudo apt-get install zoneminder => everything went fine but my camera was always in red so I coulnd't monitor it.

2) I uninstalled zoneminder and tried to install latest stable version from source but it didn't work, so I uninstalled it.

3) now, I'm trying to install it with apt-get again but it doesn't work; here's the result of "sudo apt-get install zoneminder":

xavier@WaterTowerServ1:~$ sudo apt-get install zoneminder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
zoneminder
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 1335kB of archives.
After this operation, 4694kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe zoneminder 1.22.3-10 [1335kB]
Fetched 1335kB in 0s (1577kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package zoneminder.
(Reading database ... 46064 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking zoneminder (from .../zoneminder_1.22.3-10_i386.deb) ...
Setting up zoneminder (1.22.3-10) ...
Starting ZoneMinder: Aborted
DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','zmuser',...) failed: Access denied for user 'zmuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 89
Can't call method "prepare_cached" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 91.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 100.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ZoneMinder.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 45.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 45.
failure

invoke-rc.d: initscript zoneminder, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing zoneminder (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
zoneminder
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It would be very kind from you if you could help me...
Thanks...

Posted: **Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:44 pm**

It looks like its running which is why you cannot re install... as for the red screen you will need to explain more about your hardware, there is a version in the repos for Hardy that works fine.

TrOjAn

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:15 am**

vpxavier wrote:
Setting up zoneminder (1.22.3-10) ...
Starting ZoneMinder: Aborted
DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','zmuser',...) failed: Access denied for user 'zmuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/ZoneMinder/Config.pm line 89

Looks like zm installed fine but is erroring out on setting up the database because the user and DB already exist in mysql. You will have to either change the user and password to what you have loaded in mysql or drop the user and enter a new one. Same for the database, you will likely need to drop it and manually load the DB.

As for your red links, check your logs and see what errors are there.

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:26 pm**

Ok, I could reinstall using "apt-get install zoneminder", it was a zoneminder process called at boot that I had to delete before being able to reinstall...

Now I'm back with my problem of the source displayed in red.
When I go to see the logs in /var/log/message, here's what I have:

Oct 15 14:13:46 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF [Restarting capture daemon for GarageCam, shared memory not valid]
Oct 15 14:13:46 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5842]: INF ['zmc -m 1' started at 08/10/15 14:13:46]
Oct 15 14:13:46 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5789]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:13:46, pid = 5842]
Oct 15 14:13:46 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:13:46, pid = 5842]
Oct 15 14:13:46 WaterTowerServ1 zmc_m1[5842]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Oct 15 14:13:56 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF [Restarting capture daemon for GarageCam, shared memory not valid]
Oct 15 14:13:56 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5844]: INF ['zmc -m 1' started at 08/10/15 14:13:56]
Oct 15 14:13:56 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5789]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:13:56, pid = 5844]
Oct 15 14:13:56 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:13:56, pid = 5844]
Oct 15 14:13:56 WaterTowerServ1 zmc_m1[5844]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Oct 15 14:14:06 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF [Restarting capture daemon for GarageCam, shared memory not valid]
Oct 15 14:14:07 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5846]: INF ['zmc -m 1' started at 08/10/15 14:14:07]
Oct 15 14:14:07 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5789]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:14:07, pid = 5846]
Oct 15 14:14:07 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:14:07, pid = 5846]
Oct 15 14:14:07 WaterTowerServ1 zmc_m1[5846]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Oct 15 14:14:17 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF [Restarting capture daemon for GarageCam, shared memory not valid]
Oct 15 14:14:17 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5848]: INF ['zmc -m 1' started at 08/10/15 14:14:17]
Oct 15 14:14:17 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5789]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:14:17, pid = 5848]
Oct 15 14:14:17 WaterTowerServ1 zmwatch[5821]: INF ['zmc -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:14:17, pid = 5848]
Oct 15 14:14:17 WaterTowerServ1 zmc_m1[5848]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]
Oct 15 14:14:21 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5789]: INF [Starting pending process, zma -m 1]
Oct 15 14:14:21 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5853]: INF ['zma -m 1' started at 08/10/15 14:14:21]
Oct 15 14:14:21 WaterTowerServ1 zmdc[5789]: INF ['zma -m 1' starting at 08/10/15 14:14:21, pid = 5853]
Oct 15 14:14:21 WaterTowerServ1 zma_m1[5853]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]

Do you have any clue?

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:10 pm**

I slowly find solutions...

I had to edit /etc/sysctl.conf
and add:

kernel.shmall=268424446
kernel.shmmax=268424446

After a reboot, the source line now turns orange...
I keep investigating...

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:17 pm**

All the answers are on these forums... you just have to find them

TrOjAn

Posted: **Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:42 pm**

ok...

sounds like orange is a nice color

What let me thought it wasn't is that when I click on the camera's zone I get a red cross in IE and a broken link in Firefox in stead of the image.

When I went to apache's log, I see that it can't find the picture in

/usr/share/zoneminder/images

I've seen somewhere that I have to change the rights on this folder for the user www-data and put read and write permissions...

I still have to look...

Thanks if you can help...

Posted: **Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:57 pm**

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 8.04 server (kernal 2.6.24-21-server), zoneminder, LAMP, ffmeg, all from the repos. Did not get any images from camera in zoneminder, but could see camera in xawtv. Then applied the fixes listed on the Wiki Documentation page for zoneminder. Look at the section titled "Installation from a .deb" I did them all with the exception of the last item about memory allocation. When I first installed the server and zoneminder, the first thing I did was the memory adjustment. Did not work, tried a few other things. Then decided to re-read the documentation carefully rather than skimming. Removed all applications related to zoneminder (apt-get remove --purge <application>). Then reinstalled and followed the Documentation referenced above.

Everthing now works great. Zonemider sees my camera on video0, channel 0.

Hope this helps.

~andrew

Posted: **Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:59 pm**

Hardy is very unstable, and the repos are way out of date. Peter is the guy that makes the debs for Debian, so use his current ones, and use Gutsy. I can't say for Intrepid yet.

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