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Posted: **Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:56 pm**

Running Zoneminder 1.24.1. logs show error: WAR [ Waiting for Capture Daemon ] . Camera sources are black. Any ideas on a solution? THANKS!

Posted: **Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:02 pm**

Running Zoneminder 1.24.2 no image in web

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Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmdc[5409]: INF [Starting pending process, zmc -d /dev/video0]                                                                                               
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmdc[5409]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' starting at 10/02/19 01:00:29, pid = 5464]                                                                             
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmdc[5464]: INF ['zmc -d /dev/video0' started at 10/02/19 01:00:29]                                                                                          
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmc_dvideo0[5464]: INF [Debug Level = 0, Debug Log = <none>]                                                                                                 
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmc_dvideo0[5464]: INF [Starting Capture]                                                                                                                    
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmc_dvideo0[5464]: FAT [Failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied]                                                                          
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmc_dvideo0[5464]: INF [Got signal 6 (Aborted), exiting and forcing backtrace]                                                                               
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zmdc[5409]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 6]                                                                                      
Feb 19 01:00:29 valhalla zma_m2[5434]: WAR [Waiting for capture daemon]

Posted: **Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:10 pm**

The WAR stuff means the capture demon is not running.

see the search button http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/search.php

General advice did you set your shared mem?

check zmc and zma logs too.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:51 pm**

I change my web cam to genius iSlim 1322AF

Set Device Format Secam
Capture Palette YUYV
Capture Width (pixels) 320
Capture Height (pixels) 240

In another resolution is not working.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:59 pm**

[Failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied]
Typically, zmfix is run at startup as root to set permissions so zmc will be able to access the device. It seems its not doing its job for you, but in most distros /dev/videoX are root:video, so adding the user zmc runs on to the video group should also do the job.

Posted: **Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:47 am**

mastertheknife wrote:[Failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied]
Typically, zmfix is run at startup as root to set permissions so zmc will be able to access the device. It seems its not doing its job for you, but in most distros /dev/videoX are root:video, so adding the user zmc runs on to the video group should also do the job.

I try run as root, error still remains [Failed to open video device /dev/video0: Permission denied]Debian squezze.

Without changing anything, I tried another camera and everything was working well