Starting ZoneMinder: failure

[Danny Howard]

Binary package hint: zoneminder

1-11:16 djh@noneedto ~$ sudo service zoneminder start
Starting ZoneMinder: failure

Can't find any log information anywhere. How do we debug this? Thanks!

Sincerely,
-daniel

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 18 11:16:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: zoneminder 1.24.1-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: zoneminder
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2275): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2275): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2400): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:2377): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Cherrot (cherrot)]

I encountered this error too on my Ubuntu 11.10 .

[Cherrot (cherrot)]

But when I restart the service it return a success :)
sudo service zoneminder restart

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Since this bug is for an unsupported version of Ubuntu, I'll mark this as "Invalid"