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Hi everybody. I had a Debian Squeeze 64 bits + Zoneminder box with 8 cameras working for many months without errors. My DVR card is a Pico2000 chipset 16 Channels. Today when open a window for streaming theres no image in any one camera.

First I check logs. This is what i found

This error appears many times:

Mar 13 08:15:56 zm web_php[18340]: ERR [socket_sendto( /tmp/zm/zms-686810s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory]

and this appears when try to watch streaming images. Many times too:

Mar 13 08:15:55 zm zms[1021]: ERR [Unable to authenticate user]
Mar 13 08:15:55 zm zms[1022]: ERR [Unable to authenticate user]
Mar 13 08:15:55 zm zms[1023]: ERR [Unable to authenticate user]

Looks like a Msyql password error. I check for Users, Passwords in Mysql and .conf files for Zoneminder but everything is ok.

I downloaded zm4ms (ViseonViewer) and configure it to work with zoneminder server and surprise: it works!! then check for records. I can't see record streaming but can see images. I mean zoneminder and cameras are working but not for my web interface.

shutting down server I see an error message:

Stoping ZoneMinder: DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','user',...) failed: Can't connect to MySQL server through socket '/var/run/msyqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/ZoneMinder/Logger.pm line 458 DBI connect('database=zm;host=localhost','user',...) failed: Can't connect to MySQL server through socket '/var/run/msyqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/ZoneMinder/Database.pm line 90 Can't call method "trace" on an undefined value at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/ZoneMinder/Database.pm line 92. Failure

Again I check for Users, Passwords in Mysql and .conf files for Zoneminder but everything is ok.

Starting server again the error message doesnt appear. Same situation with /etc/init.d/zm restart or start

Could somebody please help me. At this momento I dont know what else I can do

Thanks.

Well, after search and search info about this issue finally its solved. Not in the best way but it works meanwhile.

You can find the answer for this issue in: http://debianyderivadas.blogspot.com/20 ... on-de.html

Basically you can check option OPT_USE_AUTH for users login but you must change: Options ----> System ----> AUTH_RELAY to none.

I will try to search about this especifically issue with relay authentication methods.

Thanks.

I have exactly the same problem.

in my case this happened when i updated Zoneminder between 1.25.x versions on OpenSUSE 12.1

I tried the solution you gave and it worked .

thank you very much.
pd: sorry for my bad english.

Here is what I found to be a better solution. It works but maybe someone else can use it to come up with a code change solution inside zoneminder that works out-of-the-box.

The issue seems to be AUTH_RELAY defaults to hash (a good thing) but that the way the hash is computed is based on a different time&date then what is used by zm_user.cpp when authenticating.

The PHP version is defaulting to UTC timezone in most people's fresh setup but zm_user.cpp is using localtime(); which is your local timezone.

The fix for me was to edit /etc/php.ini, uncomment the date.timezone line and and; in my case; change the line 'date.timezone = America/Chicago'. Now the hash is built with matching hour+date after restarting.

How do other apps handle this? Are there UTC-always versions of these functions in both PHP and C?

Chris

Thanks cbagwell.

This looks like a better solution. I will try it soon.

Thank you.