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Posted: **Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:24 pm**

Smooth upgrade from 1.23.3 to 1.24.1

Just want to repeat me experiences with gentoo

First:
I stoped zoneminder synced package list removed 1.23.3 version of zoneminder, and reinstalled the new version of ffmpeg

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/etc/init.d/zoneminder stop
emerge --sync
emerge --unmerge zoneminder
emerge ffmpeg
emerge gcc

Second:
backup mysql from phpmyadmin
(although I did not need it)

Third:
I read the manual for am 3 times trying to find what to "./configure" it with (yes i missed the section on compiling twice)

Anyways I ended up with

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./configure --with-mysql --with-ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ffmpeg --with-webuser=apache --with-webgroup=apache --with-webdir=/var/www/zoneminder/htdocs/ --with-cgidir=/var/www/zoneminder/htdocs/cgi-bin/ --enable-mmap=no

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make install

NOTE: I turned of mapped memory because I did not see the right perl module in portage

Forth:
Changed zm.conf so it would connect to the db

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 nano /usr/local/etc/zm.conf

I changed ZM_DB_USER and ZM_DB_PASS

Used zmupdate which failed (i dont know why)
So used php my admin to run the zoneminder database update sql.

Fifth:
Checked to see if events came up and i could make videos.
Everything worked as expected and even mpeg streaming worked correctly

Started zm

Sixth:
Modified zmtrigger as shown HERE
restarted zoneminder

ENDNOTES:
Seams much faster than before
Mpeg Streaming never worked for me before this.
Compiling is easier than I predicted for a complex programs as this
scales much better in cell phone(blackberry anyways)

Thanks ZoneMinder community for helping get me started with zoneminder and getting things set up in 1.23.3 version.

Posted: **Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:35 pm**

Awesome

Though I was interested in why zmupdate might have failed, by chance was there any complaints by configure for any perl modules (excluding X10)?

Posted: **Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:12 am**

Not that I can remember but it didn't really bug me because I knew what to do to get around it

Posted: **Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:16 pm**

Thanks for this. I have just followed it (except I did not use --with-ffmpeg not --enable-mmap) and in the end everything works, including zmupdate.pl, I just needed the correct username and password. I also needed to edit /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include to change localhost to zoneminder.

I say everything works except I can no longer see any images. I have the dreaded message

Sep 29 12:12:01 eye zma_m3[17512]: WAR [Waiting for capture daemon]
Sep 29 12:12:02 eye zmc_dvideo1[17658]: INF [Starting Capture]
Sep 29 12:12:02 eye zmc_dvideo1[17658]: ERR [Capture failure for frame 0: Device or resource busy]
Sep 29 12:12:02 eye zmc_dvideo1[17658]: ERR [Failed to prime capture of initial monitor]
Sep 29 12:12:02 eye zmdc[17461]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video1' exited abnormally, exit status 255]

I can't see any shared memory error messages and I have full permissions on the /dev/video* devices. debug 9 isn't showing anything helpful (to me).

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Smooth upgrade from 1.23.3 to 1.24.1 on gentoo

Smooth upgrade from 1.23.3 to 1.24.1 on gentoo