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After figuring out all the perl module issues and what not (and that issue with characters and RedHat version 9) we've got everything installed.

The issue is that the perl script keeps crashing for no apparent reason. Here is the shippet from the error log.

It shoud also be noted that the only way to get apache to respond again is to manually kill all the related processes. After that is done, then apache responds.

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Server starting at 03/09/27 03:55:55
'zmc -d 0' started at 03/09/27 03:55:59
'zmc -d 0' starting at 03/09/27 03:55:59, pid = 7822
'zmc -d 0' crashed at 03/09/27 03:55:59, exit status 255
'zmc -d 0' started at 03/09/27 03:55:59
'zmc -d 0' starting at 03/09/27 03:55:59, pid = 7825
'zma -m 1' started at 03/09/27 03:56:00
'zma -m 1' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:00, pid = 7828
'zmc -d 0' crashed at 03/09/27 03:56:01, exit status 255
'zmfilter.pl -m 1 -e -1' started at 03/09/27 03:56:01
'zmfilter.pl -m 1 -e -1' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:01, pid = 7832
'zmaudit.pl -d 900 -y' started at 03/09/27 03:56:02
'zmaudit.pl -d 900 -y' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:02, pid = 7837
'zmwatch.pl' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:04, pid = 7842
'zmwatch.pl' started at 03/09/27 03:56:04
v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Field/ParamVal.pm line 65.
Starting pending process, zmc -d 0
'zmc -d 0' started at 03/09/27 03:56:06
'zmc -d 0' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:06, pid = 7846
'zma -m 1' crashed at 03/09/27 03:56:08, exit status 255
'zma -m 1' started at 03/09/27 03:56:08
'zma -m 1' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:08, pid = 7852
'zmc -d 0' crashed at 03/09/27 03:56:08, exit status 255
'zma -m 1' crashed at 03/09/27 03:56:08, exit status 255
'zmfilter.pl -m 1 -e -1' crashed at 03/09/27 03:56:12, exit status 2
'zmfilter.pl -m 1 -e -1' started at 03/09/27 03:56:12
'zmfilter.pl -m 1 -e -1' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:12, pid = 7854
Starting pending process, zma -m 1
'zma -m 1' started at 03/09/27 03:56:13
'zma -m 1' starting at 03/09/27 03:56:13, pid = 7856
'zma -m 1' crashed at 03/09/27 03:56:13, exit status 255
v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Field/ParamVal.pm line 65.
Starting pending process, zmc -d 0

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What's going on?

Should I not be using RH9? If not, what works?
r

try this,

stop all of zone minder... maybe rebooting would be nice (make sure zoneminder is not set to start).

now go into your zoneminder webpage, select "source setup" for the camera.

set video camera to a very low resolution, like 320x240, save it.

start zoneminder with a Function of "NONE"

Set it to passive mode, and see if you can view something,
--if so move it to active and see if it works.
--if not see if zmc is crashing.

if zmc is crashing make sure the v4l device works with other tv apps, etc. 0.9.15 is pretty good at working from what I've seen, so It's likely to be a problem with the capture device.

I know the capture device works because other apps are capturing images from it.

I made those changes. Now, when I try to connect, everything times out.

I think the issue is with using RH9 and how they may have miffed up certain defaults. I'm going to try this with Debian today.

Which distros are people having with 'out of the box' installations?

Hi Russ,

Did you get anywhere with Debian?

There is a list of the distributions people have used successfully on the Support link above, though I think this does include RH9! In general I tend to use RH, most of the development is done on RH7.2 though I have another machine I use some of the time when I can be bothered to swap all the cards around and change all the cameras. RH9 certainly seems to be the most troublesome distribution however.

Regards,

Phil,