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Basically my syslog (and web_php.log created by the apache zoneminder cgi-bin) shows

03/12/13 17:42:20.307107 web_php[5514].ERR [socket_sendto( /var/run/zm/zms-347773s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory] at /usr/share/zoneminder/includes/functions.php line 2322
When I look at /var/run/zm

srwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 12 17:42 zmdc.sock
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 5 Mar 12 17:42 zm.pid
srwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 13 18:01 zms-347773w.sock
Note the w vs the s in the socket file name. Any ideas as to why the s file is not getting created.

My configuration is:
Ubuntu Precise 12.04
Zoneminder (from ubuntu official repositories) 1.25.0
Apache 2.2.22
Php 5.3.10

Hi i'm having the same issue, the only diference is that im using the virtual machine that you guys provide in Downloads.

Has anyone solved the error socket_sendto issue as i am having the same problem

The socket files that end with a 's' or a 'w' are to do with streaming. They are created by the call to cgi program zms or nph-zms. The error you are seeing comes from stream.php where it check for existence of the socket files before continuing to process the stream. Given the files are not being created - the could be a problem with the cgi setup - I had similar messages on ubuntu server 12.10 under lighttpd until I correctly enable the CGI module to treat zms as a cgi program. Once this was corrected, the socket files were created and the message stopped.

what did you actually edit? the CGI paths??
Cheers
Michael

hi,
i had the same issue. i've changed row 51 @ajax/stream.php, incresing sleep(1)-->sleep(2). It worked for me

hope this helps
max

Hi,
I had same issus:
socket_sendto( /tmp/zm/zms-042615s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory
And i check /tm/zm have only file: zmdc.sock
Pls show me how fix it? where is stream.php? I istalled in Centos 5.7. Thanks,

hi,
the stream.php file is located @

/usr/share/zoneminder/ajax/

@ line 50 there should something like this
i've changed the value for the sleep statement (from 1 to 2 secs)

cheers
max

you seem to have the samer issue that i have in that the files generated are zms******w.sock name in the directory yet zoneminder seems to be trying to find a file named zms******s.sock.

does the differant filename stop this working and how can i set it so that the file generated is the same as the file it is looking for.

i increased the sleep time to 2 seconds and it made no differance to my system.

Same error here but I think I've tracked down the reason why but not sure how to fix.

My setup is on a solid state drive with a larger raid array for file storage. With the SSD I can't have events saved to the default location or it will fill it up in sort order. So I set the events folder to some palce other than the default location and I can't stream events. When I flip it back to the default location I can.

it seems somewhere the location is hard coded and if you made changes in the options, it breaks things.

log file:

Can't open /var/www/html/zm//home/zmfiles/events/1/13/05/30/21/54/20/001-capture.jpg: No such file or directory


seems to confirm the path for events set somewhere else other than the options.

Hmm..

As someone mentioned before me there are two lines in stream.php that are slightly different.


$locSockFile = ZM_PATH_SOCKS.'/zms-'.sprintf("%06d",$_REQUEST['connkey']).'w.sock';
and
$remSockFile = ZM_PATH_SOCKS.'/zms-'.sprintf("%06d",$_REQUEST['connkey']).'s.sock';

I changed both to have the s.sock

$locSockFile = ZM_PATH_SOCKS.'/zms-'.sprintf("%06d",$_REQUEST['connkey']).'s.sock';
and
$remSockFile = ZM_PATH_SOCKS.'/zms-'.sprintf("%06d",$_REQUEST['connkey']).'s.sock';

After that a image from my PS3_EYE is now shown. Hower it looks like shit, and I will look more into that. Also I have a new error now.
web_php[16046]: ERR [Got unexpected message size, got 5, expected 260]

hi

i modified the file and changed both to s.sock.
i am still not able to view stored events.
i no longer get the sock error but now also get the web_php[16046]: ERR [Got unexpected message size, got 5, expected 260].

Hi,

I to have the "socket_sendto( /var/lib/zoneminder/sock/zms-642937s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory" problem. I would like to solve it. So i am folowing this thread. In hopes it will come to a suitable solution.

Thanks for the post.

Yeah, same issue here guys....

changing the w.sock to s.sock does nothing but create more errors....

GAH!!

Greetings,

I'm having the same kind of sock issues, but it seems to be related on how I address the server..

See http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewto ... 29&t=21139 for a description..
(I created a different thread as not to spam/hijack this thread...)

Gabriel