running motion on dockstar (security camera) [out of topic ... please moderate]

[EDIT] my sincerest appologies. after many modifications in the /etc/motion/motion.conf file I finally found that trying to add a lot of text at the bottom left part of the picture was my mistake. It is therefore not related to debian, dockstar, squeeze ... it is motion configuration related. If this thread is to be moved or deleted I will take no offence.


Hi all knowledgeable people !


first, i have to say I've spent a lot of time browsing forums, blog posts, internet pages, etc. to try and find a solution to my problem.
Your help will be very much appreciated ! (if it's too obvious, please point me in the right direction)

I am trying to run a security webcam with motion on my freshly installed dockstar (squeeze).
The very first time I installed the webcam and motion, everything was working fine. but the day after (and probably a reboot later) it was not working anymore.

Here are some pieces of information I've seen many times on forums so I guess you'll need those.

My webcam is : QuickCam® Communicate STX (V-UBK45)

root@debian:/# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.32-5-kirkwood #1 Sun Sep 23 22:53:30 UTC 2012 armv5tel GNU/Linux

root@debian:/# motion
[0] Processing thread 0 - config file /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] Motion 3.2.12 Started
[0] ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3412993 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3415808
[0] Thread 1 is from /etc/motion/motion.conf
[0] motion-httpd/3.2.12 running, accepting connections
[0] motion-httpd: waiting for data on port TCP 8080
[1] Thread 1 started
[1] cap.driver: "zc3xx"
[1] cap.card: "USB Camera (046d:08d7)"
[1] cap.bus_info: "usb-orion-ehci.0-1.2"
[1] cap.capabilities=0x05000001
[1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
[1] - READWRITE
[1] - STREAMING
[1] Test palette JPEG (640x480)
[1] Using palette JPEG (640x480) bytesperlines 640 sizeimage 115790 colorspace 00000007
[1] found control 0x00980900, "Brightness", range 0,255
[1]     "Brightness", default 128, current 40
[1] found control 0x00980901, "Contrast", range 0,256
[1]     "Contrast", default 128, current 128
[1] found control 0x00980910, "Gamma", range 1,6
[1]     "Gamma", default 4, current 4
[1] found control 0x00980912, "Auto Gain", range 0,1
[1]     "Auto Gain", default 1, current 1
[1] mmap information:
[1] frames=4
[1] 0 length=118784
[1] 1 length=118784
[1] 2 length=118784
[1] 3 length=118784
[1] Using V4L2
[1] Resizing pre_capture buffer to 1 items
Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment
[1] Started stream webcam server in port 8081
Segmentation fault

root@debian:/# dmesg
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-5-kirkwood (Debian 2.6.32-46) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 Sun Sep 23 22:53:30 UTC 2012
[    0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
[    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[    0.000000] Machine: Seagate FreeAgent DockStar
[    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 32768
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c03d50cc, node_mem_map c043f000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 256 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=10 rootfstype=ext2 mtdparts=orion_nand:1M(u-boot),4M(uImage),32M(rootfs),-(data)
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
[    0.000000] Memory: 121016KB available (3516K code, 583K data, 124K init, 0K highmem)
[    0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:114
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[   21.474973] Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=5963776)
[   21.714927] Security Framework initialized
[   21.714947] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[   21.714976] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[   21.715296] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[   21.715314] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[   21.715324] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[   21.715334] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[   21.715342] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[   21.715401] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[   21.716232] devtmpfs: initialized
[   21.717965] regulator: core version 0.5
[   21.718202] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[   21.718756] Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A0, TCLK=200000000.
[   21.718770] Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
[   21.718805] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[   21.719249] initial MPP regs: 01111111 11113322 00001111 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   21.719271]   final MPP regs: 01111111 11113322 00001111 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   21.720678] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[   21.720953] vgaarb: loaded
[   21.721415] Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
[   21.725457] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[   21.725702] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[   21.726461] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[   21.726561] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[   21.726614] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[   21.726623] TCP reno registered
[   21.726776] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[   21.726956] Unpacking initramfs...
[   22.037806] Freeing initrd memory: 4420K
[   22.037917] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[   22.038168] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[   22.038203] type=2000 audit(0.550:1): initialized
[   22.044687] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[   22.044952] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[   22.045063] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[   22.045717] msgmni has been set to 245
[   22.047472] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
[   22.047593] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[   22.047606] io scheduler noop registered
[   22.047613] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[   22.047621] io scheduler deadline registered
[   22.047798] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[   22.053928] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[   22.054405] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
[   22.380526] console [ttyS0] enabled
[   22.384619] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xda (Micron NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
[   22.393225] Scanning device for bad blocks
[   22.460208] Bad eraseblock 1695 at 0x00000d3e0000
[   22.477999] 4 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand
[   22.484313] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
[   22.489483] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
[   22.495048] 0x000000100000-0x000000500000 : "uImage"
[   22.500496] 0x000000500000-0x000002500000 : "rootfs"
[   22.506011] 0x000002500000-0x000010000000 : "data"
[   22.512032] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   23.521457] rtc-mv rtc-mv: internal RTC not ticking
[   23.526445] i2c /dev entries driver
[   23.530117] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[   23.534366] cpuidle: using governor menu
[   23.538397] Registered led device: dockstar:green:health
[   23.543819] Registered led device: dockstar:orange:misc
[   23.549123] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
[   23.555541] mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
[   23.601484] mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[   23.641482] mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[   23.681482] mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
[   23.721484] mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
[   23.728155] TCP cubic registered
[   23.731399] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   23.735896] Gating clock of unused units
[   23.735905] before: 0x00dfc3fd
[   23.735912]  after: 0x00c701c9
[   23.736230] registered taskstats version 1
[   23.741014] /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-46-armel-lEvbR7/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_armel_none/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[   23.755677] Initalizing network drop monitor service
[   23.760722] Freeing init memory: 124K
[   23.811915] udev[44]: starting version 164
[   24.095008] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[   24.110408] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[   24.116499] MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
[   24.122361] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[   24.141624] mv643xx_eth smi: probed
[   24.146947] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[   24.159659] net eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:10:75:1a:d7:b7
[   24.165847] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
[   24.171168] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[   24.211481] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
[   24.231485] orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[   24.237492] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[   24.244350] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[   24.251622] usb usb1: Product: Marvell Orion EHCI
[   24.256351] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood ehci_hcd
[   24.262743] usb usb1: SerialNumber: orion-ehci.0
[   24.268296] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   24.274229] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[   24.278025] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[   24.601462] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2
[   24.752876] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
[   24.759609] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[   24.766791] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[   24.772134] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   24.781039] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[   24.785132] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[   25.061786] usb 1-1.3: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 3
[   25.178752] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387
[   25.185674] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   25.193048] usb 1-1.3: Product: Mass Storage
[   25.197334] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Generic
[   25.201634] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: 8464D514
[   25.207345] usb 1-1.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   25.296896] SCSI subsystem initialized
[   25.324641] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[   25.329837] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   25.336560] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   25.342621] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[   25.347851] usb-storage: device found at 3
[   25.347861] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   30.341764] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   30.343593] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  Flash Disk       8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[   30.381660] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7864320 512-byte logical blocks: (4.02 GB/3.75 GiB)
[   30.389640] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   30.394481] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[   30.394491] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   30.402889] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   30.409019]  sda: sda1 sda2
[   30.419642] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   30.425801] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   35.231710] udev[165]: starting version 164
[   36.000660] Adding 980212k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:980212k
[   40.071789] usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 4
[   40.153554] eth0: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[   40.283649] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=08d7
[   40.290559] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
[   40.299807] usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   40.376014] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   40.400087] gspca: main v2.7.0 registered
[   40.418614] gspca: probing 046d:08d7
[   42.191872] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
[   42.231871] zc3xx: probe sensor -> 0011
[   42.235718] zc3xx: Find Sensor HV7131R(c)
[   42.241697] gspca: probe ok
[   42.244549] gspca: probing 046d:08d7
[   42.248166] gspca: probing 046d:08d7
[   42.252318] usbcore: registered new interface driver zc3xx
[   42.258720] zc3xx: registered
[   42.484372] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[   44.386511] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   54.881441] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[  441.261875] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
[130214.418041] eth0: link down
[130254.667858] eth0: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[131321.939457] eth0: link down
[131357.213023] eth0: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[176877.481875] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
[176959.981874] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
[177821.391874] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
[177864.271875] zc3xx: probe 2wr ov vga 0x0000
root@debian:/#

Thanks a lot to anyone that could help !



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/17/2012 06:35AM by Chrisprols.

I'm using Motion on an iConnect, which is kirkwood as well. It takes a lot of CPU power as floating point is emulated; I get about 5 FPS at 320x240. What sort of frame rate are you seeing?

No problem... I run motion as well on a Pogoplug V2 under Debian Squeeze... for my weather station... works fine.

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• davy's Github Repo's rescue-dg

hi.
I did the test of running motion on my dockstar at different framerate.

From 5fps to 10 fps, the CPU usage increase from 30% to 70%. Then
from 11fps to 30 fps (my webcam setting according to the specs), it drops and stays stable at 30% of CPU usage.

hope it helps.