Package: motion
Version: 3.2.12+git20140228-8build1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I've tried using motion as a systemd service, the problem is that it seems to
die as soon as I start it. I suspect this the following things are stopping it
running correctly:
- the package doesn't set '/var/log/motion/' to be owned by 'motion', which
means the daemon can't write to its log file and dies
motion[26465]: [17281408] [EMG] [ALL] motion_startup: Exit motion, cannot
create log file /var/log/motion/motion.log: Permission denied
- the package doesn't set /var/run/motion to be owned by motion:
[1404] [ERR] [ALL] [Dec 30 09:40:33] myfopen: Error opening file
/var/run/motion/motion.pid with mode w+: Permission denied
[1404] [EMG] [ALL] [Dec 30 09:40:33] become_daemon: Exit motion, cannot
create process id file (pid file) /var/run/motion/motion.pid: Permission denied
- motion doesn't look for the configuration file /etc/motion/motion.conf, it
actually looks for /etc/motion.conf - I could resolve this with a symlink sudo
ln /etc/motion/motion.conf /etc/motion.conf
tim@localhost:~$ systemctl status motion
● motion.service - LSB: Start Motion detection
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/motion; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Fri 2016-12-30 09:40:33 AEDT; 4h 21min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 26496 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/motion stop (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 26504 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/motion start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Tasks: 0
Memory: 0B
CPU: 0
Dec 30 09:40:32 localhost systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start Motion detection...
Dec 30 09:40:33 localhost motion[26504]: * Starting motion detection daemon
motion
Dec 30 09:40:33 localhost motion[26504]:...done.
Dec 30 09:40:33 localhost systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start Motion detection.
Dec 30 09:40:33 localhost motion[26511]: [1404] [NTC] [ALL] conf_load:
Processing thread 0 - co
Dec 30 09:40:33 localhost motion[26511]: [1404] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup:
Motion 3.2.12+git20
Dec 30 09:40:33 localhost motion[26511]: [1404] [NTC] [ALL] motion_startup:
Logging to file (/v
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers xenial-updates
APT policy: (500, 'xenial-updates'), (500, 'xenial-security'), (500,
'xenial'), (100, 'xenial-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages motion depends on:
ii adduser3.113+nmu3ubuntu4
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58ubuntu1
ii libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56 7:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ii libavfilter-ffmpeg57:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ii libavformat-ffmpeg56 7:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ii libavutil-ffmpeg54 7:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ii libc6 2.23-0ubuntu5
ii libjpeg8 8c-2ubuntu8
ii libmysqlclient20 5.7.16-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ii libpq5 9.5.5-0ubuntu0.16.04
ii libsdl1.2debian1.2.15+dfsg1-3
ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.0-1ubuntu1
Versions of packages motion recommends:
ii ffmpeg 7:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Versions of packages motion suggests:
pn mysql-client
pn postgresql-client
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/motion changed:
start_motion_daemon=yes
/etc/motion/motion.conf changed:
daemon on
process_id_file /var/run/motion/motion.pid
setup_mode off
logfile /var/log/motion/motion.log
log_level 6
log_type all
videodevice /dev/video1
v4l2_palette 17
; tunerdevice /dev/tuner0
input -1
norm 0
frequency 0
rotate 0
width 1280
height 960
framerate 1
minimum_frame_time 3
; netcam_url value
; netcam_userpass value
netcam_keepalive off
; netcam_proxy value
netcam_tolerant_check off
auto_brightness off
brightness 100
contrast 0
saturation 0
hue 0
roundrobin_frames 1
roundrobin_skip 1
switchfilter off
threshold 1500
threshold_tune off
noise_level 32
noise_tune on
despeckle_filter EedDl
; area_detect value
; mask_file value
smart_mask_speed 0
lightswitch 0
minimum_motion_frames 1
pre_capture 0
post_capture 0
event_gap 60
max_movie_time 0
emulate_motion off
output_pictures on
output_debug_pictures off
quality 75
picture_type jpeg
ffmpeg_output_movies on
ffmpeg_output_debug_movies off
ffmpeg_timelapse 0
ffmpeg_timelapse_mode daily
ffmpeg_bps 50
ffmpeg_variable_bitrate 0
ffmpeg_video_codec mpeg4
ffmpeg_deinterlace off
sdl_threadnr 0
use_extpipe off
;extpipe mencoder -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=320:h=240:i420 -ovc x264
-x264encopts
bframes=4:frameref=1:subq=1:scenecut=-1:nob_adapt:threads=1:keyint=1000:8x8dct:vbv_bufsize=4000:crf=24:partitions=i8x8,i4x4:vbv_maxrate=800:no-chroma-me
-vf denoise3d=16:12:48:4,pp=lb -of avi -o %f.avi - -fps %fps
snapshot_interval 0
locate_motion_mode off
locate_motion_style box
text_right
