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Greetings,

svn co http://svn.zoneminder.com/svn/zm/trunk zm

Built and running mostly ok on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS on AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+


Except, ZM does not survive a reboot unless I do a fresh `make install`

After a fresh reboot ;

root@zm:~# /etc/init.d/zm restart
Stopping ZoneMinder: Warning, overriding installed ./zm.conf file with local copy
failure
Starting ZoneMinder: Warning, overriding installed ./zm.conf file with local copy
Can't connect: No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/ZoneMinder/Debug.pm line 349
ZoneMinder::Debug::Fatal('Can\'t connect: No such file or directory') called at /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl line 168
failure

root@zm:~# cd /usr/src/zm/ && make install 2>&1 >>/dev/null && /etc/init.d/zm restart
Stopping ZoneMinder: Warning, overriding installed ./zm.conf file with local copy
failure
Starting ZoneMinder: Warning, overriding installed ./zm.conf file with local copy
success
root@zm:/usr/src/zm#


Also, ZM waits for an event as it should, and then stays recording for hours.


Any hint?

Thanks,
Steve

The warnings you are getting imply that you are starting ZM from somewhere that has a local zm.conf file. Try cd'ing somewhere else and trying again.

I am now getting the similar error. ZM will not start with message:
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# /etc/init.d/zm start
Starting ZoneMinder: Can't connect: No such file or directory at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/ZoneMinder/Debug.pm line 349
ZoneMinder::Debug::Fatal('Can\'t connect: No such file or directory') called at /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl line 168
failure
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I am not in a folder that contains a zm.conf.

I got it to start but don't understand how.

- I noticed the folder /tmp/zm did not exist so I re-created it. I reboot system yesterday. I tried to restart zm and it still failed.

- then I cleaned log files in /var/log/zm so I could catch a fresh log of failure

After that it restarted just fine.