ZoneMinder CentOS 6.2 64bit

A continuation of our project, homebrew security project, we need to tie in a security camera. I've started trying to install zoneminder in CentOS for the homesecurity project. So far, I haven't been able to locate an RPM for it, but I should be able to use the source. First, grab the source and prepare to compile it :

1. wget http://www2.zoneminder.com/downloads/ZoneMinder-1.25.0.tar.gz
2. tar xzvf ZoneMinder-1.25.0.tar.gz
3. cd ZoneMinder-1.25.0

I kept having problems compiling, so I'll hold off on the configure line that I was using at the time (until after the errors are described). Those errors were :

zm_mpeg.h:63: error: use of enum ‘PixelFormat’ without previous declaration
zm_mpeg.h:64: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘AVOutputFormat’ with no type
zm_mpeg.h:64: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
zm_mpeg.h:65: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘AVFormatContext’ with no type
zm_mpeg.h:65: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
zm_mpeg.h:66: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘AVStream’ with no type
zm_mpeg.h:66: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
zm_mpeg.h:67: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘AVFrame’ with no type
zm_mpeg.h:67: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
zm_mpeg.h:68: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘AVFrame’ with no type
zm_mpeg.h:68: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
zm_mpeg.h:69: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘uint8_t’ with no type
zm_mpeg.h:69: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
zm_mpeg.h:85: error: ‘uint8_t’ has not been declared
In file included from zm_zone.h:27,
from zm_monitor.h:27,
from zmc.cpp:27:

Digging in, I found that my configure was also giving some errors :

checking libavutil/avutil.h usability... no
checking libavutil/avutil.h presence... no
checking for libavutil/avutil.h... no
checking libavcodec/avcodec.h usability... no
checking libavcodec/avcodec.h presence... no
checking for libavcodec/avcodec.h... no
checking libavformat/avformat.h usability... no
checking libavformat/avformat.h presence... no
checking for libavformat/avformat.h... no
checking libswscale/swscale.h usability... no
checking libswscale/swscale.h presence... no
checking for libswscale/swscale.h... no

Just as an FYI, I was using the ffmpeg-devel package from the rpmfusion.org repositories. For those, the include files are in your /usr/include/ffmpeg directory, not /usr/include. Digging into the configure script, I found a few things I could change to make it compile, so now I will provide the configure line :

CPPFLAGS=”-I/usr/include/ffmpeg -I/usr/include” CFLAGS=”-I/usr/include/ffmpeg -I/usr/include” CXXFLAGS=”-D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -I/usr/include/ffmpeg -I/usr/include” ./configure –with-webdir=/var/www/html/zm –with-cgidir=/var/www/cgi-bin –with-libarch=lib64 –with-ffmpeg=/usr –with-webuser=apache –with-webgroup=apache ZM_DB_HOST=localhost ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_USER=zmuser ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass –with-extralibs=”-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql” ZM_SSL_LIB=openssl

Then I ran into a segmentation fault. The backtrace looked like :

[root@cottonwoodheights ZoneMinder-1.25.0]# gdb zmc
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Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/zmc...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run -m 1
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/zmc -m 1
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7ffff71f6700 (LWP 21926)]

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00000039b0832885 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install SDL-1.2.14-3.el6.x86_64 alsa-lib-1.0.22-3.el6.x86_64 bzip2-libs-1.0.5-7.el6_0.x86_64 dbus-libs-1.2.24-5.el6_1.x86_64 enca-1.13-1.el6.x86_64 expat-2.0.1-11.el6_2.x86_64 ffmpeg-libs-0.10.2-3.el6.x86_64 flac-1.2.1-6.1.el6.x86_64 fontconfig-2.8.0-3.el6.x86_64 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_2.9.x86_64 fribidi-0.19.2-2.el6.x86_64 glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 gnutls-2.8.5-4.el6_2.2.x86_64 gsm-1.0.13-4.el6.x86_64 keyutils-libs-1.4-3.el6.x86_64 krb5-libs-1.9-22.el6_2.1.x86_64 libICE-1.0.6-1.el6.x86_64 libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.x86_64 libX11-1.3-2.el6.x86_64 libXau-1.0.5-1.el6.x86_64 libXext-1.1-3.el6.x86_64 libXfixes-4.0.4-1.el6.x86_64 libXi-1.3-3.el6.x86_64 libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.x86_64 libass-0.10.0-1.el6.x86_64 libasyncns-0.8-1.1.el6.x86_64 libcdio-0.81-3.1.el6.x86_64 libcom_err-1.41.12-11.el6.x86_64 libdc1394-2.1.2-3.4.el6.x86_64 libgcc-4.4.6-4.el6.x86_64 libgcrypt-1.4.5-9.el6_2.2.x86_64 libgpg-error-1.7-4.el6.x86_64 libjpeg-6b-46.el6.x86_64 libogg-1.1.4-2.1.el6.x86_64 libraw1394-2.0.4-1.el6.x86_64 librtmp-2.3-3.el6.x86_64 libselinux-2.0.94-5.2.el6.x86_64 libsndfile-1.0.20-5.el6.x86_64 libstdc++-4.4.6-4.el6.x86_64 libtasn1-2.3-3.el6_2.1.x86_64 libtheora-1.1.0-2.el6.x86_64 libusb1-1.0.3-1.el6.x86_64 libuuid-2.17.2-12.4.el6.x86_64 libv4l-0.6.3-2.el6.x86_64 libvorbis-1.2.3-4.el6_2.1.x86_64 libxcb-1.5-1.el6.x86_64 mysql-libs-5.1.61-4.el6.x86_64 nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-11.el6.x86_64 openal-soft-1.12.854-1.el6.x86_64 openjpeg-libs-1.3-7.el6.x86_64 openssl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.5.x86_64 pcre-7.8-4.el6.x86_64 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.x86_64 speex-1.2-0.12.rc1.1.el6.x86_64 tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-57.el6.x86_64 x264-libs-0.120-5.20120303.el6.x86_64 xvidcore-1.3.2-3.el6.x86_64 zlib-1.2.3-27.el6.x86_64
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000039b0832885 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x00000039b0834065 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2 0x00000000004142be in Logger::logPrint(bool, char const*, int, int, char const*, ...) ()
#3 0x000000000046d675 in Zone::Load(Monitor*, Zone**&) ()
#4 0x000000000043c78c in Monitor::Load(int, bool, Monitor::Purpose) ()
#5 0x00000000004068a8 in main ()
(gdb)

Splashing a few fprintf(stderr,...) messages throughout the code, I got the zmc command down to the following error:

Zone 1/All for monitor camera-name extends outside of image dimensions, 0, 0, 1279, 1039
Aborted (core dumped)

I added another fprintf(stderr...) line right above the panic line with that error, and pow, I knew what the problem was: the monitor was set up at 1280x1024, and the "Zone" (the motion rectangle) is for 1280x1040. Looking in the DB, yes indeed, the Zone was set badly. I corrected the DB entry, restarted zoneminder, and the camera was STILL showing up in red, meaning it wasn't able to view the camera. So, off to /var/log/messages to see if anything is showing up in there :

Jul 23 12:40:39 security setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing zmdc.pl from write access on the sock_file zmdc.sock. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 5dde3dda-0d7c-47db-8bfd-5ce7e48fb992 Jul 23 12:40:40 security setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing uptime from read access on the file /var/run/utmp. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 17270870-69b2-4101-9955-53415acf164f

Hmmm. SELinux again bites me. After a few runs of grabbing data from the audit log (again, the process is "append the AVC error into a separate log file, run audit2allow, enable the module, and try again. Repeat if necessary.") That got me suddenly into the mode where the source is in yellow, not red (meaning the camera is "operational"). But the camera image kept coming up blank. Back to /var/log/messages :

Jul 25 09:42:19 security zmc_m1[2544]: ERR [Error while decoding frame 0]
Jul 25 09:42:19 security zmc_m1[2544]: ERR [256: 00 00 01 b6 51 f4 18 08 85 f7 53 f8 bc 64 17 c1 68 13 c7 79 b1 9c 4d 8c 5c 31 e4 bd 78 38 80 35 18 27 87 60 3a da 9a 69 12 4e a6 db 6b 7b fc ea dd 6b 90 98 f0 8f 13 f3 6b 08 70 22 9a 0a d0 f8 61 dd 6b 84 20 b9 45 ba 06 2c 95 8d 82 41 2e 1c 07 61 42 c2 e7 05 3e 0d 8a eb 0b 86 e7 d2 a2 4c 8c fc 46 50 9b ab b2 26 07 0a 22 67 9c 11 ed a3 e8 d0 1d 45 99 44 36 ea 6b 05 a1 f0 0c 0c 82 be 20 03 8d f3 a0 e2 92 50 e8 59 43 86 87 22 f4 b8 0f 40 18 8e 5b e0 68 32 0a 79 08 23 26 d6 86 29 c9 01 35 c0 ba 43 dc 1e 8d 86 ec 1d 19 f8 44 f6 c1 70 d3 62 10 68 c9 38 38 84 28 f0 bd a0 72 41 9b 70 30 75 01 e1 4b b8 c0 38 ac 88 32 07 15 99 0a 7d d9 37 66 ec 4e 0b b0 70 b4 62 1e 14 8c 4a c2 63 a1 5b 07 42 d1 04 c4 3a 14 0d 7e 87 a0 91 07 06 81 c1 f8 c8 28 b4 20 e3 a1 f8 26 b8 32 08]

Next, I simply tried various configurations until I had one that worked. Next - the configuration for the camera.