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Zoneminder is not functional for me after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10. Just a heads up. I have tried building the latest from source, but I keep running into errors. Please bewarned.

Hey there,

Could you post the errors that you're having? Are you able to successfully build from source?

Kyle

Hi,
I have the same problems, zoneminder and Ubuntu 13.10, not working.

sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf’: No such file or directory

Here is as far as I've gotten:

$ export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
$ export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
$ export CPPFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS"

$ ./configure --prefix=/ --with-libarch=lib64 --with-mysql=/usr --with-ffmpeg=/usr --with-webuser=www-data --with-webgroup=www-data --disable-debug --disable-crashtrace --enable-mmap=yes --with-webdir=/usr/share/zoneminder --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Only one of PREFIX or INSTALL_BASE can be given. Not both.

$make

$sudo make install

$sudo service zoneminder start
failure

from syslog:
zmpkg[15480]: ERR [Unable to run "sudo -u www-data //bin/zmfix", output is ""]

When attempting to access index.php I get this warning and error:

[Wed Oct 23 16:47:30.026541 2013] [:error] [pid 30888] [client 192.168.0.2:36774] PHP Deprecated: mysql_pconnect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in /usr/share/zoneminder/includes/database.php on line 32

Thats all for now.

leggypr wrote:Hi,
I have the same problems, zoneminder and Ubuntu 13.10, not working.

sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf’: No such file or directory

I had to get around this too, luckily I had a backup of apache.conf that I was able to copy. Can you do a "locate apache.conf" and a "locate zoneminder.conf" to see if they exist in your filesystem?

These are my results of <locate(s)>:

xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx:~$ locate apache.conf
/etc/zm/apache.conf
/home/xxxxx/Downloads/ZoneMinder-1.26.4/distros/debian/apache.conf
/home/xxxxx/Downloads/ZoneMinder-1.26.4/distros/ubuntu1204/apache.conf
/home/xxxxx/Downloads/ZoneMinder-1.26.4/misc/apache.conf.in

xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx:~$ locate zoneminder.conf
/home/xxxxx/Downloads/ZoneMinder-1.26.4/distros/fedora/zoneminder.conf
/home/xxxxx/Downloads/ZoneMinder-1.26.4/distros/redhat/zoneminder.conf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/zoneminder.conffiles

Hmmm,

I wonder if your locate database is out of date, did you verify that apache.conf is actually located in /etc/zm/?

You can do a sudo updatedb and then relocate to see if it is there.

otherwise copy it from the build directory into /etc/zm/ and run your ln again.

I rebuilt a bunch of times and finally got it to work. Not really sure what changed, just a different build I guess.

I ran into some problems trying to locate the binaries in /usr/bin, zmpkg.pl kept trying to load zmupdate out of //bin. Couldn't change the env path in zmpkg.pl to get it to work, so I just used /bin as my install location.

Hans

Yes, apache.conf is in /etc/zm, but....

the directory conf.d does not exist, i.e.
zoneminder.conf neither.

The Apache 2.4 upgrade in Ubuntu 13.10 caused me all sorts of problems (not specifically with zoneminder).

conf.d has been replaced with conf-available (and then you symlink your conf files from there into conf-enabled). Some of the permission changes caused me headaches too but I finally got everything working.

I did notice this in my Apache error log, though: