Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#5758 closed defect (invalid)

ZM using default SHM key resulting in no video stream

Reported by: noisymime@… Owned by: paulh
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: mythzoneminder Version: head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description (last modified by paulh)

System: Mythbuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 Zoneminder: 1.23.3 mythzmserver: head

Under certain circumstances (Possibly in all cases), Zoneminder 1.23.3 appears to be using the default value field for setting ZM_SHM_KEY rather than the normal one. This occurs on a vanilla install of mythbuntu 8.10. This results in an incorrect shared memory key being used

mythzmserver output:
loading zm config from /etc/zm/zm.conf
ZM is version '1.23.3'
Listening on port: 6548
Using server protocol version '6'
getZMSetting: ZM_SHM_KEY Result: 0x7a6d2000
Shared memory key is: 0x7a6d2000
getZMSetting: ZM_EVENT_IMAGE_DIGITS Result: 3
Event file format is: %03d-capture.jpg
Analyse file format is: %03d-analyse.jpg
Got 2 monitors
Failed to shmget for monitor: 1
shmget args: 2053971969
ENOENT - no segment exists for the given key
Failed to shmget for monitor: 3
shmget args: 2053971971
ENOENT - no segment exists for the given key
new connection from 127.0.0.1 on socket 5
Processing: 'HELLO'
Processing: 'GET_MONITOR_LIST'
Got 2 monitors
id:      1
name:    IP-Cam1
width:   320
height:  240
palette: 4
-------------------
id:      3
name:    New
width:   320
height:  240
palette: 4
-------------------
Processing: 'GET_LIVE_FRAME'
Kicking database connection
Getting live frame from monitor: 1
Processing: 'GET_LIVE_FRAME'
Getting live frame from monitor: 1
Processing: 'GET_LIVE_FRAME'
Getting live frame from monitor: 1
Processing: 'GET_LIVE_FRAME'
Getting live frame from monitor: 1
Processing: 'GET_LIVE_FRAME'
Getting live frame from monitor: 1

When this occurs there is only a black box shown for a live feed.

I have patched zmserver.cpp and zmserver.h to try the default key value if the main one fails and this works on my system (ie I get a live video stream).

Attachments (2)

zmserver.cpp (44.2 KB) - added by noisymime@… 15 years ago.
Patched zmserver.cpp
zmserver.h (5.3 KB) - added by noisymime@… 15 years ago.

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Change History (4)

Changed 15 years ago by noisymime@…

Attachment: zmserver.cpp added

Patched zmserver.cpp

Changed 15 years ago by noisymime@…

Attachment: zmserver.h added

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by paulh

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by paulh

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

Looks like you have an invalid value set for the ZM_SHM_KEY setting. Only the first 4 digits are used the last 4 should all be 0's. You have 0x7a6d2000 it should be set to 0x7a6d0000 which is the default anyway.

I guess ZM masks out the last 4 digits and so ignores the extra 2 but MythZoneMinder? assumes the setting stored in the DB is correct and uses that value literally. It should really mask out the last four digits like ZM does I guess.

You can easily fix this by going into ZM's options page and on the 'system' tab correct the ZM_SHM_KEY setting so the last four digits are all zero's. You will have to restart mythzmserver after changing that setting.

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