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Zoneminder failure

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:38 pm
by 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
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Ray

Re: Zoneminder failure

Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:55 pm
by 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

Re: Zoneminder failure

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:08 pm
by PacoLM
n1kxj wrote: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"?

Re: Zoneminder failure

Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:02 pm
by 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