Created attachment 685646 [details] patch to unbreak text frames Description of problem: zms fails to create text-only frames because the check on fwrite in StreamBase::sendTextFrame is backwards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): zoneminder-1.25.0-11.fc18 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have multiple events recorded (with gaps) 2. Go to the view events page 3. Select Replay=All Events 4. Wait for a gap Actual results: I get a black image with garbled white stuff in the middle. In the logs, I also get "Unable to send stream text frame...". Expected results: A black image with appropriate text ("Time to next event = XXX seconds") Additional info: This seems like a prime candidate to report upstream and if their joke-of-a-bug-tracking-tool forum would accept the user I just created, I would do so. But it doesn't and I'm reporting here instead. Enjoy.
+1 on this bug. It was happening on my F18 i686 installation too. Manually fixed the missing != -1 and rebuilt the rpm.
(In reply to comment #1) > +1 on this bug. It was happening on my F18 i686 installation too. Manually > fixed the missing != -1 and rebuilt the rpm. Typo. I fixed the missing != 1.
If you provide a patch, I'll go ahead and apply it. As far as I can tell, though, zoneminder is dead upstream to the point where they won't fix or even comment on a rather unfortunate security bug and so the software should probably be dropped from Fedora. I'm not sure what Martin is doing at this point, but I really don't have time to proxy every bug report that should be made upstream, and I really don't want to just maintain what amounts to a fork of the program for Fedora.
(In reply to comment #3) > If you provide a patch, I'll go ahead and apply it. As far as I can tell, > though, zoneminder is dead upstream to the point where they won't fix or > even comment on a rather unfortunate security bug and so the software should > probably be dropped from Fedora. I'm not sure what Martin is doing at this > point, but I really don't have time to proxy every bug report that should be > made upstream, and I really don't want to just maintain what amounts to a > fork of the program for Fedora. Jason, Andrew's patch is attached to this bug report. It works fine. BTW, I am giving up on zm. Seems to be a dead project.
BTW, I checked and this fix is in zoneminder 1.26. And the zoneminder project is active again.
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