[Motion-user] Motion crashing regularly

[Ian S. <ian...@gm...>]

Once more, I suspect the issue I am facing is by my doing something 
wrong, but any assistance would be appreciated.

I run Motion on Ubuntu 20.04, with multiple cameras, of which one is a 
USB camera (which may not be relevant).

I run logging - at level 9 (all).

On a regular basis, the software crashes. Ideally, I would like to 
understand why, and eliminate the problem - if that isn't possible, I 
would like it to automatically restart on crashing, but I don't know how 
to do that, so any help would be appreciated.

The log provides the following as an example - in the seconds leading up 
to the crash:-

    [0:motion] [ERR] [ALL] [Oct 23 10:13:39] motion_watchdog: Thread 7 -
    Watchdog timeout. Trying to do a graceful restart
    [0:motion] [ERR] [ALL] [Oct 23 10:13:49] motion_watchdog: Thread 7 -
    Watchdog timeout did NOT restart, killing it!
    [5:ml5:CAMLOC] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 23 10:13:49] mlp_actions: End of
    event 18
    [5:ml5:CAMLOC] [INF] [EVT] [Oct 23 10:13:50] event_new_video: Source
    FPS 15
    [5:ml5:CAMLOC] [INF] [ENC] [Oct 23 10:13:50] ffmpeg_set_quality:
    libx264 codec vbr/crf/bit_rate: 28
    [5:ml5:CAMLOC] [NTC] [EVT] [Oct 23 10:13:50] event_newfile: File of
    type 8 saved to: [VIDEO].mkv
    [5:ml5:CAMLOC] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 23 10:13:50] motion_detected: Motion
    detected - starting event 19
    [5:ml5:CAMLOC] [NTC] [ALL] [Oct 23 10:13:54] mlp_actions: End of
    event 19



Any guidance would be most appreciated.

Many thanks,