#zoneminder

anyone awake?

I am.

How's it going?

fine fine

you?

good. hopefully what I'm working on will make ZM more efficient.

how can I tell what version I am running?

I think I installed from a livecd, the os is ubuntu 11.10

pretty rock solid: 23:05:53 up 387 days, 22:06, 1 user, load average: 0.46, 0.62, 0.63

morning.

quesker: it should be visible in the UI

good morn

hey :)

Good morning.

Hey

Hello, I am trying to figure out why people are getting broken images when OPT_AUTH is enabled --> this happens to some folks who don't use packages. The images stream perfectly when its disabled but don't when ZM's auth is enabled. I've read this several times in threads and this is a recent one: http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?... --> given ZM uses its own auth, and no

and everything works fine when auth is not on, Im guessing its not a cgi-bin or Apache problem

where do I dig to figure out what is going on?

The first place you should always go when experiencing an issue is zoneminder's log file

Yup, unfortunately this is happening with another use in the ZM forum and I've asked him to tail syslog and apache error logs

That might be helpful too, but you should first look at the zoneminder log by clicking "logs" from the web console

based on past experience, would you know top few reasons why this may be happening?

It is very hard to answer "everything just broke" comments without any data

a) processes are not crashing

b) it only occurs if opt_auth is enabled, does _not_ occur if opt_auth is disabled

c) ZM does not use apache auth

so I think its quite specific, so wondering if this is specific enough to think of some areas or still too broad

d) The guy has reverse proxies enabled (something I know little about)

so I was curious if this set of clauses helps zero in based on what you have seen in the past. No worries, if you have time later do take a look at that thread I linked to above

Since authentication is working fine on most production systems, we need to know exactly how the system is installed & configured. From package? from source? What version of zoneminder?

Need mroe data

yup he went the cmake/make install route with Fedora

SElinux enforcing came to mind

but anyway, let me continue that thread - don't mean to pull you in if more data is needed

If he built it himself, then we need to see his build output to verify that it properly detect gnutls and/or openssl

ah great

noted

SELinux can cause problems, but it usually manifests itself differently

Many don't realize there is an official zoneminder repo for Fedora, so I will typically mention that.

May I quote you in that thread and ask him to turn to IRC asking for help and be more specific?

I will post a reply

ok thanks

I have 1.25.0 installed from a livecd with ubuntu that someone made. is there an upgrade path or do I need to build a new box?

or should I even bother upgrading?

I am mostly happy but the recordings of events have always been a mess. you only get part of the time there is movement

Sure you can upgrade. It's up to you. If keep your existing events is not important, then it might be easier to just install a new system. It is up to you.

upgrade how, using the ubuntu way of upgrading?

I don't care about keeping existing events but all my settings would be a pain to recreate I think

you can try and unload/load the settings.

Just install iconnor's ppa: https://launchpad.net/~iconnor/+archive/ubuntu/...

It should upgrade your database for you.

cool

You did not state what version of Ubuntu you are using. You should upgrade to at least 14.04 LTS

off to lunch

bbl

11.10

so upgrade ubuntu first? I am scared of breaking zm

yes you will need to upgrade ubuntu first.