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Everything was working perfectly with my Zoneminder install, I was installing Samba and messing with the accounts on the Ubuntu Server when all of a sudden, Zoneminder stopped

I've checked the logs and im getting....

04/19/10 20:32:57.888601 zmpkg[1342].INF [Command: start]
04/19/10 20:32:59.240521 zmpkg[1342].ERR [Unable to run "sudo -u www-data /usr/local/bin/zmfix", output is ""]
04/19/10 20:38:49.346766 zmpkg[1687].INF [Command: start]
04/19/10 20:38:49.896888 zmpkg[1687].ERR [Unable to run "/usr/local/bin/zmfix", output is ""]

Am I right in thinking this may be related to a user permission issue?

Just in case its related, I installed Mplayer and mencoder, then removed them..

UPDATE : When trying to restart zoneminder with the command "sudo service zm restart" I get the following.....

Stopping ZoneMinder: failure
Starting ZoneMinder: /usr/local/bin/zmfix: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavformat.so.52: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52)
/usr/local/bin/zmfix: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libavcodec.so.52: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52)
/usr/local/bin/zmfix: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52: symbol av_free_packet, version LIBAVCODEC_52 not defined in file libavcodec.so.52 with link time reference
failure

I would have uninstalled ZoneMinder, ffmpeg and libavformat libavcodec libavdevice.

Was getting this error when I compile ZoneMinder with "- with-ffmpeg =" and libavformat, libavcodec, libavdevice, ffmpeg from pack. Rpm

I recommend to uninstall all and compile ffmpeg and Zoneminder.

All is now working again, it seemed to be an SQL issue in the end, reinstalled and it all appears fine...

I've lost all of my events but i can live with that

I have the same problem. I increased my shared memory and ran cec manually. I see an FFMPEG error.
I recently reinstalled ffmpeg to add x264 support. That process had its share of problems with a lot of errors like the one above. Any clues how I can go about fixing this?

I've now came across this problem same when installing ffmpeg & zoneminder from source on Ubuntu 10.04.1 x86: I've tried uninstalling both ffmpeg & zm by running make uninstall and deleting the linked libraries.
After installing them again, the problem was still there.

The simple solution to this was to install ffmpeg using the package manager: # sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
which installed the following packages: ffmpeg libavdevice52 libavfilter0

Update:
The steps that I've followed/described above did solve the ZM service starting issue, but I reckon that it did not fix everything, because my video capturing stayed broken. Like the Monitor was shown in red a few seconds after I start the ZM service.
I've now gone and did a distribution upgrade to 10.10, uninstalled ffmpeg libavdevice52 libavfilter0 and then installed ffmpeg and zoneminder from source again and it's now working 100%.