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Posted: **Mon May 09, 2016 2:19 am**

Hi guys, I'm trying to update my config from 1.28 to 1.29. My 1.28 config was from tarball source (I think), I added the PPA from Issac Connor then purged and installed the 1.29 version. However, when I try to run it I get this:

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$ sudo /etc/init.d/zoneminder start
Starting ZoneMinder: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'IsActive' in 'field list' at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 334.
failure
$

So I figure the database is out of sync with the program (old 1.28 DB) I tried to run zmupdater.pl:

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$ sudo zmupdate.pl

Database already at version 1.28.0, update aborted.

$

I found a lot of sql files that go to 1.29 so I'm pretty sure that I have all the files I need but wth?

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$ ls /usr/share/zoneminder/db
zm_create.sql         zm_update-0.9.16.sql  zm_update-1.18.1.sql  zm_update-1.20.0.sql  zm_update-1.22.0.sql  zm_update-1.23.3.sql  zm_update-1.26.1.sql     zm_update-1.28.100.sql  zm_update-1.28.107.sql
zm_update-0.0.1.sql   zm_update-0.9.7.sql   zm_update-1.19.0.sql  zm_update-1.20.1.sql  zm_update-1.22.1.sql  zm_update-1.24.0.sql  zm_update-1.26.2.sql     zm_update-1.28.101.sql  zm_update-1.28.108.sql
zm_update-0.9.10.sql  zm_update-0.9.8.sql   zm_update-1.19.1.sql  zm_update-1.21.0.sql  zm_update-1.22.2.sql  zm_update-1.24.1.sql  zm_update-1.26.3.sql     zm_update-1.28.102.sql  zm_update-1.28.109.sql
zm_update-0.9.11.sql  zm_update-0.9.9.sql   zm_update-1.19.2.sql  zm_update-1.21.1.sql  zm_update-1.22.3.sql  zm_update-1.24.2.sql  zm_update-1.26.5.sql     zm_update-1.28.103.sql  zm_update-1.28.110.sql
zm_update-0.9.12.sql  zm_update-1.17.1.sql  zm_update-1.19.3.sql  zm_update-1.21.2.sql  zm_update-1.23.0.sql  zm_update-1.24.3.sql  zm_update-1.27.0.sql     zm_update-1.28.104.sql  zm_update-1.28.1.sql
zm_update-0.9.13.sql  zm_update-1.17.2.sql  zm_update-1.19.4.sql  zm_update-1.21.3.sql  zm_update-1.23.1.sql  zm_update-1.24.4.sql  zm_update-1.27.99.0.sql  zm_update-1.28.105.sql  zm_update-1.28.99.sql
zm_update-0.9.15.sql  zm_update-1.18.0.sql  zm_update-1.19.5.sql  zm_update-1.21.4.sql  zm_update-1.23.2.sql  zm_update-1.26.0.sql  zm_update-1.28.0.sql     zm_update-1.28.106.sql  zm_update-1.29.0.sql
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It's like the zmupdate.pl file I got isn't updated. Any recommendations for getting this resolved?

Thanks,
-Greg

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$ which zmupdate.pl
/usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
$ ls -la /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44486 Feb  4 10:42 /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
$

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2016 2:26 am**

See the WIKI. You will have to set permissions on the zm database.
Bb

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2016 11:31 pm**

Hi Bb, I executed the command:

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mysql -uroot -p -e "grant all on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';"

If that's what you're referring to. It doesn't appear to have worked...

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$ sudo zmupdate.pl 

Database already at version 1.28.0, update aborted.

$

It's like the zmupdate.pl script I have is the old version but I'm pretty sure it's being installed because I removed (with purge) and tried to run it but it couldn't find the script so I think it was removed.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 12:20 am**

Maybe I need special switches on the zmupdate.pl command to tell it I want to move the DB to 1.29??

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 7:35 am**

sudo zmupdate.pl -f

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 1:11 pm**

PacoLM wrote:sudo zmupdate.pl -f

No dice,

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$ sudo zmupdate.pl -f
[sudo] password for spikeygg:

Freshening configuration in database
Loading config from DB
Saving config to DB
$ sudo /etc/init.d/zoneminder start
Starting ZoneMinder: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Unknown column 'IsActive' in 'field list' at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 334.
failure

$ sudo zmupdate.pl

Database already at version 1.28.0, update aborted.

$

I mean, does it matter that the thing says "version 1.28.0"? It's seems like it matters...

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 5:13 pm**

My guess is that you are running MySQL 5.7 after you upgraded. There is one file that has a command that needs to be removed:

To allow the database upgrade to work you will need to edit one sql file

nano /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_update-1.28.99.sql

Search for [ALTER IGNORE TABLE] (Ctrl + w then type ALTER IGNORE TABLE and press Enter. Remove IGNORE then

Ctrl+o Enter to save

CTRL+x to exit

This was documented in:

https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Common_Issu ... untu_16.04

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 5:21 pm**

bbunge wrote:My guess is that you are running MySQL 5.7 after you upgraded.

I'm running 5.5.49:

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$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.49, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.3
$

I tried removing the IGNORE from the alter statement but it still didn't work. Any other ideas?

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$ sudo zmupdate.pl -f

Freshening configuration in database
Loading config from DB
Saving config to DB
$ sudo zmupdate.pl

Database already at version 1.28.0, update aborted.

$

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 7:28 pm**

zmupdate has another option called '-v' that you can use to force ZM to think you are at some older version. However, from what you have posted, it looks like your system thinks your latest version is 1.28 whereas you have tried upgrading to 1.29

I think you have an install with residual files from the old install and are in an inconsistent state and ZM therefore is confused. This is typically the case when you install from source and then upgrade using a package. I'd recommend a clean install if that is an option.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 9:26 pm**

Hi,

Another tip: install phpmyadmin and execute the sql inside the latest update file from phpmyadmin. I did it in a previous version with the same problem as you, it worked.

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 9:44 pm**

asker wrote:zmupdate has another option called '-v' that you can use to force ZM to think you are at some older version. However, from what you have posted, it looks like your system thinks your latest version is 1.29 whereas you have tried upgrading to 1.28

I think you have an install with residual files from the old install and are in an inconsistent state and ZM therefore is confused. This is typically the case when you install from source and then upgrade using a package. I'd recommend a clean install if that is an option.

Hah, that's exactly what I was thinking but look at this set of commands:

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$ sudo apt-get purge zoneminder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libjs-mootools libjs-sphinxdoc
  libjs-underscore libnet-sftp-foreign-perl libphp-serialization-perl
  libsys-mmap-perl zoneminder-doc
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  zoneminder*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
After this operation, 24.4 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 256050 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing zoneminder (1.29.0-trusty) ...
Conf zoneminder disabled.
apache2_invoke prerm: Disable configuration zoneminder
 * Reloading web server apache2                                                                                              *
Purging configuration files for zoneminder (1.29.0-trusty) ...

Reminder: to completely remove "zoneminder" it may be necessary
 * to delete database using the following sample command:
        sudo mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -f drop zm
 * to delete remaining data files in /var/cache/zoneminder.

apache2_invoke postrm: Purging state for zoneminder
dpkg: warning: while removing zoneminder, directory '/usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Control' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing zoneminder, directory '/usr/share/zoneminder' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing zoneminder, directory '/var/log/zm' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing zoneminder, directory '/var/cache/zoneminder/events' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing zoneminder, directory '/var/cache/zoneminder/images' not empty so not removed
dpkg: warning: while removing zoneminder, directory '/etc/zm' not empty so not removed
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
$ ls -la /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl: No such file or directory
$ sudo apt-get install zoneminder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  fcgiwrap
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  zoneminder
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,948 kB of archives.
After this operation, 24.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package zoneminder.
(Reading database ... 253771 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../zoneminder_1.29.0-trusty_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking zoneminder (1.29.0-trusty) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up zoneminder (1.29.0-trusty) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
$ ls -la /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44486 Feb  4 10:42 /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
$ sudo /usr/bin/zmupdate.pl
Warning, overriding installed ./zm.conf file with local copy

Database already at version 1.28.0, update aborted.

$

Can you make sense of that? It's clearly removing and reinstalling this zmupdate.pl file so something is amiss elsewhere, I just don't know where.

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 9:47 pm**

PacoLM wrote:Hi,

Another tip: install phpmyadmin and execute the sql inside the latest update file from phpmyadmin. I did it in a previous version with the same problem as you, it worked.

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

Hi PacoLM, thanks for the information. Are you suggesting that I execute the sql within: /usr/share/zoneminder/db/? I ask because it looks like there are several files available in there and I'm not sure exactly which ones I should be running.

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$ls /usr/share/zoneminder/db/
zm_create.sql         zm_update-1.18.0.sql  zm_update-1.21.3.sql  zm_update-1.24.3.sql     zm_update-1.28.103.sql
zm_update-0.0.1.sql   zm_update-1.18.1.sql  zm_update-1.21.4.sql  zm_update-1.24.4.sql     zm_update-1.28.104.sql
zm_update-0.9.10.sql  zm_update-1.19.0.sql  zm_update-1.22.0.sql  zm_update-1.26.0.sql     zm_update-1.28.105.sql
zm_update-0.9.11.sql  zm_update-1.19.1.sql  zm_update-1.22.1.sql  zm_update-1.26.1.sql     zm_update-1.28.106.sql
zm_update-0.9.12.sql  zm_update-1.19.2.sql  zm_update-1.22.2.sql  zm_update-1.26.2.sql     zm_update-1.28.107.sql
zm_update-0.9.13.sql  zm_update-1.19.3.sql  zm_update-1.22.3.sql  zm_update-1.26.3.sql     zm_update-1.28.108.sql
zm_update-0.9.15.sql  zm_update-1.19.4.sql  zm_update-1.23.0.sql  zm_update-1.26.5.sql     zm_update-1.28.109.sql
zm_update-0.9.16.sql  zm_update-1.19.5.sql  zm_update-1.23.1.sql  zm_update-1.27.0.sql     zm_update-1.28.110.sql
zm_update-0.9.7.sql   zm_update-1.20.0.sql  zm_update-1.23.2.sql  zm_update-1.27.99.0.sql  zm_update-1.28.1.sql
zm_update-0.9.8.sql   zm_update-1.20.1.sql  zm_update-1.23.3.sql  zm_update-1.28.0.sql     zm_update-1.28.99.sql
zm_update-0.9.9.sql   zm_update-1.21.0.sql  zm_update-1.24.0.sql  zm_update-1.28.100.sql   zm_update-1.29.0.sql
zm_update-1.17.1.sql  zm_update-1.21.1.sql  zm_update-1.24.1.sql  zm_update-1.28.101.sql
zm_update-1.17.2.sql  zm_update-1.21.2.sql  zm_update-1.24.2.sql  zm_update-1.28.102.sql
$

Should I just execute the zm_update-1.29.0.sql or do I need to run all of them from zm_update-1.28.0.sql to zm_update-1.29.0.sql? Mostly I'm worried about breaking something. I don't really care about my old recordings, ideally I would preserve them but if I have to I'll dump the DB and start over (worst case).

Thanks again.
-Greg

Posted: **Sun May 15, 2016 10:56 pm**

Your best bet would be to dump your current database and start with a fresh one. Yes, you could run each .sql which is what the zmupdate does but you could still have issues. You may be farther ahead to install Ubuntu 16.04 server with ZM 1.29.0

bb

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2016 12:44 am**

bbunge wrote:Your best bet would be to dump your current database and start with a fresh one. Yes, you could run each .sql which is what the zmupdate does but you could still have issues. You may be farther ahead to install Ubuntu 16.04 server with ZM 1.29.0

bb

I'm thinking about it more and all my zones and things will be wiped if I drop the DB. So I manually executed the SQL scripts on the zm db instead of dropping it. I ran all the ones after 1.28.0 and now I can start up the zoneminder script but it's giving me lots of errors and my camera source is red but at least the script doesn't bomb out now.

These are the errors I am seeing when I start the zoneminder init.d script. Any ideas where to start here? It looks like it's still complaining about the config table. "Config mismatch". It suggests zmupdate.pl which clearly doesn't work.

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May 16 18:32:15 mythbox undef[4573]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 224 items, read 215. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.]
May 16 18:32:15 mythbox zmdc[4547]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
May 16 18:32:15 mythbox undef[4580]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 224 items, read 215. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.]
May 16 18:32:15 mythbox undef[4581]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 224 items, read 215. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.]
May 16 18:32:15 mythbox zmdc[4547]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
May 16 18:32:15 mythbox zmdc[4547]: ERR ['zma -m 2' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
May 16 18:32:15 mythbox undef[4590]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 224 items, read 215. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.]
May 16 18:32:20 mythbox undef[4622]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 224 items, read 215. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.]
May 16 18:32:20 mythbox undef[4621]: ERR [Config mismatch, expected 224 items, read 215. Try running 'zmupdate.pl -f' to reload config.]
May 16 18:32:20 mythbox zmdc[4547]: message repeated 2 times: [ ERR ['zma -m 2' exited abnormally, exit status 255]]
May 16 18:32:20 mythbox zmdc[4547]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255]
May 16 18:32:21 mythbox zmvideo[4631]: ERR [Unable to generate video, check /var/www/zm/events/2/16/04/30/18/49/25/ffmpeg.log for details]
May 16 18:32:21 mythbox zmfilter[4591]: ERR [Video generation '/usr/bin/zmvideo.pl -e 15028 -r 1 -s 1 -f mp4' failed with status: 255]
May 16 18:32:21 mythbox zmvideo[4636]: ERR [Unable to generate video, check /var/www/zm/events/2/16/04/30/18/49/25/ffmpeg.log for details]

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2016 5:59 pm**

this is again a sign of mixed files between versions. ZM needs to be re-compiled when # of config items change.

You'll spend more time with this than reconfiguring zones - just dump the Zones DB and re-import

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