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Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 3:36 pm**

Hi all,

I recently rebuilt my server to Fedora Core 15, and a freshly installed ZoneMinder won't start. Some outputs:

[root@server ~]# yum list zoneminder
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * fedora: fedora.mirror.netriplex.com
 * updates: ftp.linux.ncsu.edu
100 packages excluded due to repository protections
Installed Packages
zoneminder.x86_64                        1.24.3-4.20110324svn3310.fc15                         @fedora
[root@server ~]#

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[root@server ~]# service zoneminder start
Starting zoneminder (via systemctl):  Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details.
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@server ~]#

I'm not sure if this should even execute just by running command line, but I tried anyway:

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[root@server ~]# zmpkg.pl start
Bareword "PROT_READ" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder/Memory/Mapped.pm line 91.
Bareword "PROT_WRITE" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder/Memory/Mapped.pm line 91.
Bareword "MAP_SHARED" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder/Memory/Mapped.pm line 91.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder/Memory.pm line 120.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder.pm line 37.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder.pm line 37.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 46.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 46.

And notes:

I created the zm database and ran "mysql zm < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql", then granted permissions to the zmuser user.
Log files appear empty, other than a note that says the same as above in /var/log/messages
zm.conf seems OK.

Any ideas on how to debug?

Thanks,
B.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:41 pm**

Lol, just wrote up the same info on a txt file and walked over to my wkst to post...
Hope it's resolved soon!

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:08 pm**

I have seen a few reports of this error on Fedora 15, but equally all the F15 installs I have done have all worked fine. I notice you are installing from a rpm, perhaps the dependencies for that are broken. Can you confirm you have the Sys::Mmap perl module installed, the yum package is perl-Sys-Mmap.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:11 pm**

While that dep is not installed, the problem seems actually to be this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711780
Fixed for me...

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:30 am**

I think that is a red(hat) herring. It is being used correction according to 'perldoc Sys::Mmap'.

NAME
Mmap - uses mmap to map in a file as a Perl variable

SYNOPSIS
use Sys::Mmap;

new Mmap $str, 8192, 'structtest2.pl' or die $!;
new Mmap $var, 8192 or die $!;

mmap($foo, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, FILEHANDLE) or die "mmap: $!";
@tags = $foo =~ /<(.*?)>/g;
munmap($foo) or die "munmap: $!";

mmap($bar, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, FILEHANDLE);
substr($bar, 1024, 11) = "Hello world";

mmap($baz, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANON, STDOUT);

$addr = mmap($baz, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANON, STDOUT);
Sys::Mmap::hardwire($qux, $addr, 8192);

DESCRIPTION
The Mmap module uses the POSIX mmap call to map in a file as a Perl variable. Memory access by mmap may be shared between
threads or forked processes, and may be a disc file that has been mapped into memory. Sys::Mmap depends on your operating
system supporting UNIX or POSIX.1b mmap, of course.

So unless there is something recently broken in the Sys::Mmap module there should be no need to put '*' in front of the constant. If you don't have that module installed then I am surprised it even gets that far.

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:12 pm**

I did not have the Sys::Mmap module installed, but even after installing the error still occurred. The BugZilla link above did however fix my issue. For those following the thread that don't want to link out, here was the working fix (for me):

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vi /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/ZoneMinder/Memory/Mapped.pm

(Of note, the "code" font on the forum hides the underscore between "vendor" and "perl" above) Now change line 91 from

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my $mmap_addr = mmap( $mmap, $size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, \*MMAP );

to

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my $mmap_addr = mmap( $mmap, $size, *PROT_READ|*PROT_WRITE, *MAP_SHARED, \*MMAP );

As stated above, I'm not sure this is a "proper" fix, but it did the trick.

Thanks,
B.

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:11 pm**

It may not throw an error, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is working correctly so check thoroughly for any errors. As I said before, other F15 installs do not have this problem so there may be something else that is behind this and I'd like to know what.

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:25 pm**

zoneminder wrote:It may not throw an error, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is working correctly so check thoroughly for any errors. As I said before, other F15 installs do not have this problem so there may be something else that is behind this and I'd like to know what.

Could you send me the output of "yum list installed" (or similar) of a working FC15 machine? If so I will do a compare against what I've got and see if I can work out a "real" fix.

Also, on your FC15 machines, did you run a full update from the FC15 updates repo? (I did)

Thanks,
B.

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:29 pm**

I've got ZM 1.24.4 to install on Fedora15 and the way to fix the two problems the op is having are firstly to edit /etc/init.d/zm using Vim. When your in the escape mode press ":" (colon) which gets you in the command mode then type

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setfileformat=unix

and press enter
to save and exit press ":" again then wq and exit

edit /etc/php.ini
find where it says:

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short_open_tag = Off

and change it to

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short_opent_tag = On

then after saving and exiting do a

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service httpd restart

then hopefully

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service zm start

should work

If its a repo version then maybe the above zm's will be zoneminder's

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:52 pm**

KeithB wrote:I've got ZM 1.24.4 to install on Fedora15 and the way to fix the two problems the op is having are firstly to edit /etc/init.d/zm using Vim. When your in the escape mode press ":" (colon) which gets you in the command mode then type
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setfileformat=unix
and press enter
to save and exit press ":" again then wq and exit

edit /etc/php.ini
find where it says:
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short_open_tag = Off
and change it to
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short_opent_tag = On
then after saving and exiting do a
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service httpd restart
then hopefully
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service zm start
should work

If its a repo version then maybe the above zm's will be zoneminder's

Sorry Keith, I'm not sure what problem you're having/had, but file formats and php short tags are not relevant to the Perl error in this thread. Thanks.

Posted: **Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:15 pm**

The package list is too long to post, so I have linked it here. This was a fresh install.

Posted: **Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:19 pm**

zoneminder wrote:The package list is too long to post, so I have linked it here. This was a fresh install.

First off, have you tried a 64bit install? This is the first thing that stands out

Tried to do a comparison on our files, but for some reason your FC15 is putting spaces between data and newlines on a lot of the packages, whereas mine uses tabs and everything on one line, so I can't figure out a good way to diff.

Ex:

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Installed Packages
ConsoleKit.i686     0.4.5-1.fc15    @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686
ConsoleKit-libs.i686
                    0.4.5-1.fc15    @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686
ConsoleKit-x11.i686 0.4.5-1.fc15    @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131946.i686

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Installed Packages
BackupPC.x86_64                      3.1.0-17.fc15                      @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131943.x86_64
ConsoleKit.x86_64                    0.4.5-1.fc15                       @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131943.x86_64
ConsoleKit-libs.x86_64               0.4.5-1.fc15                       @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131943.x86_64
ConsoleKit-x11.x86_64                0.4.5-1.fc15                       @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201105131943.x86_64

Ideas on how to make formats match? Played with sed but couldn't get anything consistent.

Thanks,
B.

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