[SOLVED] Apache problems... Pages don't load

lpallard · 04-12-2010, 10:07 PM

Majordidge and spampig. Thanks a million times for all the help that you gave me!

Because of the modifs I made to my conf files I can now access zm in my browser.....

The camera is in red whichh means that is not working properly but it is only a cheap quickcam pro from logitech... I will play around later to find out why it is not working

Does anybody knows where zm keeps it's log files? Maybe I will look there to see why zm pukes my cam !

Thanks!

spampig · 04-13-2010, 02:57 AM

Looking at the Debian & Slackware ones I have handy they both appear to dump the log details to syslog. This may help:

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less /var/log/syslog | grep zm

Basically with USB cams the story goes - if you can get it to work in Linux normally (as a Webcam), then you should be able to get it to work with ZM without too much stress. In the past I've had success with Logitech cameras as well as cheap Asda cameras but everything I now run is composite based and interfaces to the machine with cheap BT878 pci cards.

EDIT
Just found this in tmp:
/tmp/zmwatch.log

but being in tmp means it is not going to have much persistence.

lpallard · 04-17-2010, 04:36 PM

Hey Spampig! thanks for replying!

In syslog I can see several lines like these two:

Code:

Apr 17 17:00:21 lhost2 zmc_dvideo0[3611]: ERR [Failed to set picture attributes: Invalid argument]
Apr 17 17:00:21 lhost2 zmdc[3578]: ERR ['zmc -d /dev/video0' exited abnormally, exit status 255] 
Apr 17 17:00:22 lhost2 zmdc[3578]: ERR ['zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9]

What is that??? I guess thats why ZM does not work (or at least can use my camera)

spampig · 04-18-2010, 01:50 AM

I would start here:

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index...amera_Works.21

Going from memory I had something similar when I had bad parameters for a display and thesecommands were useful to me in troubleshooting:

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zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v
zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v -Uadministrator -P<password>

along with our normal friends:

Quote:

lsusb
lspci
lsmod | grep video

This link was helpful to me at the very beginning (ignore the Ubuntu slant, the advice is generally good)
http://www.howtoforge.com/video_surv...eminder_ubuntu

But the best place to go and troubleshoot this is with the folk at the Zoneminder forum - they are less likely to lead you up the garden path than me :-)