After upgrading my Ubuntu system first from 12.04 to 13.10 then onto 14.04.1 I started getting problems with xlib_shm
It wouldn’t start up, all the cameras were working fine from the web interface but nothing to the TV.
So I started troubleshooting and found the following error coming back at me.
shared_data_size=12166644
mem_size=884
Got unexpected memory map file size 4056640, expected 884
It doesn’t really make any sense though, it take you down the path of increasing the shmmax an shmall. But this was all working fine before the update and these values haven’t been changed. Still I increased them just incase.
No joy.
I also tried to recompile xlib_shm incase (being upgraded a few times) too much had changed. This unfortunately fell flat on its face when it can’t compile there’s stuff missing (we’ll come back to that).
After going round in circles for quite a while, I found while checking the camera configs that each camera had been set to 8bit greyscale. I set this back to 24bit colour. And restart. hey presto! my tv is once again filled with cameras.
I do still have a problem at the moment though, although the cams are now displaying they are frozen. I’m not sure though if this is more to do with how I start xlib_shm, and think it may be crashing out but not completely enough to take the display away.
So if your having problems with xlib_shm after upgrading either your OS or Zoneminder, check that your cams are setup properly. I almost missed the colour as it’s nighttime and they are grey anyway 🙂
As for the compile problems. It looks as though upgrading through 2 versions of Ubuntu has removed some packages, I’ll have to try and work out what incase I need to compile again.