ZoneMinder Forums

Posted: **Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:55 pm**

Hi

After following the Wiki "Ubuntu 6.06 Alternative" installation instructions I have ZoneMinder working fine on my PC, however I have noticed that after rebooting and pressing "Ctrl+Alt+F8" to see the boot log I see the following strange error:

Code: Select all

Starting ZoneMinder: Success

touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/zm' : No such file or directory

Does anyone know what this means and is it an issue?, and if so how do I solve it as I for the life of me can't find anything in the forums or via Googling?

Cheers, JamesX...

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:56 pm**

I don't know a lot about Ubuntu, but does the /var/lock/subsys directory exist?

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:30 am**

Remove (or comment out) the following two lines in your zm init.d file (/etc/init.d/zm )
# [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/zm

# [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/zm

This will remove that error and will have no ill effect.

Regards,
Corey

ZoneMinder Forums

Installated fine, but get strange error on reboot?

Installated fine, but get strange error on reboot?