Re: [Motion-user] Motion crashing regularly

[tosiara <to...@gm...>]

Also check syslog and dmesg - there may be hardware related errors

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 12:44 PM Ian Smith <ian...@gm...> wrote:
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> Once more, I suspect the issue I am facing is by my doing something wrong, but any assistance would be appreciated.
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> I run Motion on Ubuntu 20.04, with multiple cameras, of which one is a USB camera (which may not be relevant).
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> I run logging - at level 9 (all).
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> 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.
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> The log provides the following as an example - in the seconds leading up to the crash:-
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> [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
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> Any guidance would be most appreciated.
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> Many thanks,
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