Bug#890760: zoneminder: Does not start
Rainer Dorsch
Version: 1.30.4+dfsg-2~bpo9+1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
zoneminder does not start on my system (it worked some time back, but then stopped working).
root@home:~# systemctl status zoneminder.service
● zoneminder.service - ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-02-18 15:35:10 CET; 4min 3s ago
Docs: http://zoneminder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Process: 8761 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start (code=exited, status=95)
Feb 18 15:35:08 home systemd[1]: Starting ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system...
Feb 18 15:35:09 home zmpkg[8761]: INF [Sanity checking States table...]
Feb 18 15:35:10 home zmpkg[8761]: INF [Command: start]
Feb 18 15:35:10 home zmpkg.pl[8761]: Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 386.
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=95
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: Failed to start ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system.
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
root@home:~#
# journalctl -xe
produces similar output:
-- Subject: Unit zoneminder.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Unit zoneminder.service has begun starting up.
Feb 18 15:35:08 home dhclient[675]: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
Feb 18 15:35:09 home zmpkg[8761]: INF [Sanity checking States table...]
Feb 18 15:35:10 home zmpkg[8761]: INF [Command: start]
Feb 18 15:35:10 home zmpkg.pl[8761]: Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 386.
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=95
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: Failed to start ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system.
-- Subject: Unit zoneminder.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
--
-- Unit zoneminder.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 18 15:35:10 home systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
If there is anything more I can provide, please let me know.
Thanks
Rainer
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)
Foreign Architectures: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-armmp (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages zoneminder depends on:
ii cakephp 2.8.5-1
ii init-system-helpers 1.48
ii javascript-common 11
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1
ii libavcodec57 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1
ii libavformat57 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1
ii libavutil55 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libclass-std-fast-perl 0.0.8-2
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-5+deb9u4
ii libdata-dump-perl 1.23-1
ii libdate-manip-perl 6.57-1
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.041-2
ii libdevice-serialport-perl 1.04-3+b3
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18
ii libgcrypt20 1.7.6-2+deb9u2
ii libgnutls-openssl27 3.5.8-5+deb9u3
ii libimage-info-perl 1.39-1
ii libio-socket-multicast-perl 1.12-2+b3
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
ii libjs-mootools 1.4.5~debian1-2.1
ii libjson-any-perl 1.39-1
ii libmariadbclient18 10.1.26-0+deb9u1
ii libmime-lite-perl 3.030-2
ii libmime-tools-perl 5.508-1
ii libnet-sftp-foreign-perl 1.86+dfsg-1
ii libossp-uuid-perl [libdata-uuid-perl] 1.6.2-1.5+b4
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-3
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u2
ii libphp-serialization-perl 0.34-1
ii libsoap-wsdl-perl 3.003-2
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
ii libswscale4 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1
ii libsys-cpu-perl 0.61-2+b1
ii libsys-meminfo-perl 0.99-1
ii libsys-mmap-perl 0.17-1+b2
ii liburi-encode-perl 1.1.1-1
ii libvlc5 2.2.7-1~deb9u1
ii libwww-perl 6.15-1
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
ii mariadb-client-10.1 [virtual-mysql-client] 10.1.26-0+deb9u1
ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u2
ii perl-modules-5.24 [libmodule-load-conditional-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u2
ii php-gd 1:7.0+49
ii php-mysql 1:7.0+49
ii php7.0-gd [php-gd] 7.0.27-0+deb9u1
ii policykit-1 0.105-18
ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 8.24.0-1
ii zip 3.0-11+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
Versions of packages zoneminder recommends:
ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.25-3+deb9u3
ii default-mysql-server 1.0.2
ii ffmpeg 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1
ii libapache2-mod-php 1:7.0+49
ii libapache2-mod-php7.0 [libapache2-mod-php] 7.0.27-0+deb9u1
ii libapache2-mod-php7.1 [libapache2-mod-php] 7.1.8-1
ii mariadb-server-10.1 [virtual-mysql-server] 10.1.26-0+deb9u1
ii zoneminder-doc 1.30.4+dfsg-2
Versions of packages zoneminder suggests:
ii fcgiwrap 1.1.0-9
ii logrotate 3.11.0-0.1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/zm/zm.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/zm/zm.conf'
-- no debconf information
Rainer Dorsch
I must have had tomatoes on my eyes (I did not really understand that
ENV(PATH) is my system path), the error message tells what was the problem.
My /usr/local/bin was 777 which is certainly not a good idea, but I edited a
file as user in there and put that workaround in place to save the file (and
forgot to restore 755).
My zoneminder works again, bug report can be closed.
Sorry again,
Rainer
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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/