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I had an older version, 1.26 I think running on the same box with Ubuntu 14.04, but the mushkin ssd died after a year (Gonna stick with intel from now on).

Now I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 server and used the source based install directions https://zoneminder.readthedocs.org/en/s ... rom-source

Got everything working after adding sql_mode = NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION to the mysql config. The only problem is when I open an event, I see one frame of the video, and then just get a countdown to the next event, no playback of the video. I can see video from the live feed, just not in the events.

Why do things the hard way and have problems?

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Serv ... e_easy_way

At this point I'm invested in the config, since apache will have to be reconfigured to use the packages. I also would like to keep control of the upgrade process, so an apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't require running a bunch of sql and fixing other busted stuff when ZM gets upgraded along with the rest of the system packages. I generally shun packaged versions of web apps like this and owncloud, since you can't always count on packaged versions to get updates in a timely manner.

Asides from using packages I don't see anything different about that guide, so this should work fine. I have no errors logged.