Zoneminder service exit code 127

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zoneminder service seems to be broken; repeating ‘zmc -m 1’ exited abnormally, exit status 127 in the logs.

I can reproduce that error code with more detail like this:

 sudo -u zoneminder /nix/store/xpg5yp0796la0h69fzljyrybrvram5d2-zoneminder-1.36.15/bin/zmc -m 1 || echo $?
/nix/store/xpg5yp0796la0h69fzljyrybrvram5d2-zoneminder-1.36.15/bin/zmc: error while loading shared libraries: libmariadb.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
127

I’m able to run zmc -m 1 fine when I enter nix-shell -p zoneminder first, so I think the systemd failure nay be due to the same issue. How can I reconfigure the service to add the dependency correctly ?

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If you do ldd ./result/bin/zmc you will see the following line libmariadb.so.3 => not found

That is probably because you have somehow the mariadb library in your environment.

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just to confirm… yes - ldd says not found
oddly:

[nix-shell:/]$ ldd /nix/store/r2nla9xks04hq4h1qc51i08y0h7sik6i-zoneminder-1.36.15/bin/zmc | grep mar
        libmariadb.so.3 => /nix/store/3c8zhwsbnvp5xivl7lfq1dg0zbp8fj3k-mariadb-connector-c-3.2.5/lib/mysql/libmariadb.so.3 (0x00007f9dae0cd000)

[nix-shell:/]$ ldd /nix/store/xpg5yp0796la0h69fzljyrybrvram5d2-zoneminder-1.36.15/bin/zmc | grep mar
        libmariadb.so.3 => not found

let’s see if your fix works!
thanks

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Brad, please note that ZM is currently lacking a maintainer on NixOS, so if you have the capacity and interest, I’m sure whoever else is using it will be grateful.

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I’m not sure I have the expertise… but I can give it a try if people are willing to help…
e.g.
i’m not sure how to test sandro’s fix in my system… what’s the best way to test before the PR gets merged?

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Clone the nixpkgs repo, checkout the branch your system is build with, cherry-pick the commit onto and then rebuild your system with that.