[mythtv-users] Mythzoneminder and mmap

[Greg Grotsky]

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Rajil Saraswat <rajil.s at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Zoneminder has moved from using shared memory to mmap as a default. It
> is a very welcome move since shm sometimes did not work very well. Are
> there any plans of making mythzoneminder to work with mmap?
>

I second this question. I've recently installed zoneminder 1.25.0 on my
machine and I've found that mythzoneminder does not display the live
stream. It just shows a "TV Test Pattern" display and throws a bunch of
errors in the log:

2012-10-20 09:25:32.865905 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:32.967017 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.068153 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.169238 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.329914 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.431208 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.532428 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.633852 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.735045 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.836297 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:33.937571 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
2012-10-20 09:25:34.040503 E [14707/14707] CoreContext zmclient.cpp:176
(sendReceiveStringList) - The server failed to process the command. The
error was:-
                        ERROR - Cannot get shared memory pointers
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