Package: motion
Version: 4.7.0-3
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
Dear Maintainer,
Sometimes, motion stops recording. When I inspect the process,
it has open files pointing to old recordings (by looking at
/proc/<PID>/fd/).
When running strace, there are plenty of EMFILES errors.
Restarting the process makes it work again. But by the time, the
issue is noticed, lots of recordings have been lost, which is a
serious data loss.
I cannot tell what leads to this situation. My only guess would
be that I have a cronjob that removes old files (more than 30
days old).
I would like to close saying that I appreciate the work done in
maintaining the package.
Thanks.
Cascardo.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages motion depends on:
ii adduser 3.152
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii libavcodec61 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libavdevice61 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libavformat61 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libavutil59 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u1
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.1.5-4
ii libmariadb3 1:11.8.3-0+deb13u1
ii libmicrohttpd12t64 1.0.1-4
ii libpq5 17.7-0+deb13u1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-7
ii libswscale8 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
Versions of packages motion recommends:
ii ffmpeg 7:7.1.3-0+deb13u1
Versions of packages motion suggests:
pn default-mysql-client <none>
pn postgresql-client <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/motion/camera1-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/camera2-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/camera3-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/camera4-dist.conf [file not found]
/etc/motion/motion.conf changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
