Zoneminder failure

[n1kxj]

I had zoneminder running on Ubuntu 14.08. I had done an update on Ubuntu and the zoneminder would not run anymore. I have reinstalled several times and getting nowhere. The error I am getting on the term. is on the attached screen shot. what is wrong?

Screenshot of term Zoneminder fail.png (88.76 KiB) Viewed 1901 times

Ray

[asker]

It doesn't look like you have followed installation instructions.
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu

For example the upgrade instructions here talk about many things including changing permissions to the file you listed in your screenshot
https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Common_Issu ... r_from_PPA

[PacoLM]

I had zoneminder running on Ubuntu 14.08. I had done an update on Ubuntu and the zoneminder would not run anymore. I have reinstalled several times and getting nowhere. The error I am getting on the term. is on the attached screen shot. what is wrong?

Screenshot of term Zoneminder fail.png

Ray

Could you try to run the command "sudo service zoneminder start"?

[rockedge]

your example of the error is a result of a permission problem with the /etc/zm/zm.conf
you could try these methods which are detailed in the instructions mentioned above in this thread.

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root#chown www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf

the next error you would encounter is fixed by changing the permissions of /var/cache/zoneminder so then type:

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root#chown -R www-data /var/cache/zoneminder