Bug Reports

The Motion TWiki Bug Reporting is here for you if wish to report a bug in Motion.

Submit New Bug Report

This form starts a new topic for each bug.

• Consider filing a Support Request unless you are very sure you have found a bug.
• Note that you can attach your motion config files and other supporting files to the bug report once it has been created.
• Also note that if you want to copy/paste error logs and error messages and similar into a bug report you should put the entire text within <VERBATIM> and </VERBATIM> tags. Otherwise you do not get any line breaks. Text pasted into the "Verbatim Text" field are automatically placed between VERBATIM tags.

Topic name:	BugReport2010x03x10x202934
Title	Short Title
Description:	Describe the bug in plain text here. Paste in error messages and other text where new-lines must be preserved in the field below
Verbatim Text:	Paste in your error messages, config settings, terminal window output etc in this text field.
Note: Be descriptive; the SupportGuidelines tell you what to include. You can expand on it in the next screen if necessary
Motion version:		Example: 3.2.11.1
ffmpeg version:		Example: 0.4.8 or 0.4.9pre1
Libraries installed:		curl, xmlrpc, ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:		Fedora Core 2, kernel 2.6.8
Submitted By		Use the prefix Main. in front of your WikiName.
		Note: Report is submitted after you Create and Save the following page

New Bugs

Not yet assigned to anyone.

Headline	Submitted By	Age	Last Change
Auto brightness oscillates wildly	RobertHancock	320	25 Apr 2009 - 02:25 RobertHancock
on_camera_lost not triggered if video_pipe doesn't work for any reason.	RomanGaufman	357	03 Apr 2009 - 14:43 RomanGaufman
Motion failed to close motion-stream listen socket after a month of running	RomanGaufman	344	31 Mar 2009 - 15:16 RomanGaufman

Assigned Bugs

Assigned to someone - feel free to help resolving it anyway.

Headline	Submitted By	Age	Last Change	Assigned To
Segmentationfault when using V4L2_PIX_FMT_SPCA561	RichardB	39	02 Mar 2010 - 09:52 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
netcam_next called with non data in buffer	NicolaM	370	04 Jan 2010 - 03:17 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
Netcam Grey Image	TWikiGuest	367	04 Jan 2010 - 03:17 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
Garbage with AverMedia TV Phone and PAL NonColor cam.	OlegFrolkov	316	10 Aug 2009 - 00:40 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
Watchdog Timeout renders webcam unusable	KristenSchat	249	11 Jul 2009 - 21:49 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
on_area_detected, events, gap	WikiGuest	347	09 Jul 2009 - 08:38 AngelCarpintero	JoergWeber
strict jpg quality check doesn't work	JudasHui	529	18 Oct 2008 - 18:20 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
wrong parse of various url strings	PietroVitelli?	1081	27 Mar 2007 - 07:57 AngelCarpintero	Angel.Carpintero

Resolved Bugs

Bugs with a fix. The fix is not yet in a released version of Motion. See also MotionPatches which contains patches for both new features, enhancements and bug fixes.

Headline	Submitted By	Age	Last Change	Assigned To
Motion beyond 20100121 no longer builds without ffmpeg	RichardB	41	05 Feb 2010 - 21:08 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
Name space clash with libjpeg8	KennethLavrsen	48	22 Jan 2010 - 09:06 KennethLavrsen	KennethLavrsen
Genius Cam doesn't work with karmic and motion 3.2.11.1.	WikiGuest	104	27 Nov 2009 - 09:09 AngelCarpintero
V4L2 fourcc GRBG not supported	IsaacRichter	132	24 Nov 2009 - 12:20 AngelCarpintero	AngelCarpintero
New spec and init script for Fedora/RedHat systems	StevenM	347	06 Jul 2009 - 13:29 StevenM

Monitored Bug Reports

Headline	Submitted By	Age	Last Change
Segfault when using with tw68	RomanGaufman	17	27 Feb 2010 - 04:39 AngelCarpintero
Locked pixels	FlorinAnton	241	11 Feb 2010 - 19:06 FlorinAnton
Unclear explanantion in configuration file for stream_quality	RichardB	39	05 Feb 2010 - 21:36 AngelCarpintero
Mac OS X ffmpeg patch/configure error & Motion pthread support error	NicholasSund	445	05 Feb 2010 - 21:14 AngelCarpintero
./configure without ffmpeg	WikiGuest	64	07 Jan 2010 - 10:56 AngelCarpintero
HTTP Server got stuck accessing config params	AxelAmthor	139	15 Nov 2009 - 18:46 AngelCarpintero
False recordings of gabage	TheOtherBug	230	24 Jul 2009 - 10:50 TheOtherBug
segfault in libc-2.6.1.so	WikiGuest	239	18 Jul 2009 - 00:41 AngelCarpintero
Segmentation fault	JeanBono	265	16 Jul 2009 - 18:57 AngelCarpintero
Motion control 'quit" action does not work.	BruceDurham	491	06 Nov 2008 - 03:05 AngelCarpintero
3.2.9 and Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000: captures 320x240 despite a setting of 640x480 although set to	TWikiGuest	543	15 Sep 2008 - 18:56 DagErlandsson
Logitech Quickcam Messenger : image much too bright	TWikiGuest	605	15 Jul 2008 - 17:31 AngelCarpintero
Need to set norm to NTSC in xawtv for threads beyond 0	WillBuddenberg	834	15 Jun 2008 - 23:54 AngelCarpintero
Crash on reconect webcam	TrebolA	651	02 Jun 2008 - 16:04 AngelCarpintero
Motion hangs if webcam is removed	PekkaVuorela	662	22 May 2008 - 20:48 PekkaVuorela
post_capture seems to stop on max_mpeg_time :(	TWikiGuest	697	22 May 2008 - 01:13 AngelCarpintero
Stop answering.	DanielHolm	751	20 Feb 2008 - 19:27 DanielHolm
IP cam connection lost and never reconnect	LaurentBalthasar	1178	20 Feb 2008 - 05:51 AngelCarpintero
Motion for MACOSX 10.4 (ppc)	TWikiGuest	770	31 Jan 2008 - 09:45 AngelCarpintero
motion 3.2.8 on fox board	Luca	933	08 Jan 2008 - 16:24 AngelCarpintero
multiple definition of `file_protocol'	GerbenRoest	833	02 Dec 2007 - 20:54 AngelCarpintero
compile error with ffmpeg + solution	NickKnatterton	924	31 Aug 2007 - 21:23 AngelCarpintero
motion dies in webcam.c:webcam_add_write:233	Uwe Klein	1137	31 Jan 2007 - 16:19 UweKlein
motion in free(): error: modified (chunk-) pointer. Occurs when I use features ffmpeg on FreeBSD.	RafisKhayrullin	1178	08 Jan 2007 - 20:39 AngelCarpintero
Problem with webcam, based on the sn9c102 chip	GennadySolovyenko	1225	05 Nov 2006 - 11:52 AngelCarpintero
Links between Camorama and Motion ?	AndrewKraknovic	1290	06 Sep 2006 - 00:28 AngelCarpintero
Image is always black	TWikiGuest	1345	17 Jul 2006 - 15:19 KonradRiedel
Webcam interface crashes after 24-48 hours.	TWikiGuest	1569	22 May 2006 - 18:31 PeterS
Session timeout on netcam	MarcBalcells	1395	16 May 2006 - 21:54 AngelCarpintero
disk full	TWikiGuest	1476	28 Feb 2006 - 23:29 AngelCarpintero
webcam_localhost behaviour	DickMiddleton	1471	28 Feb 2006 - 23:08 AngelCarpintero
segfault after start with WCS2003(same as wvc54g from Linksys) netcam and motion-3.2.2	Mirko Taschenberger	1668	16 Aug 2005 - 22:04 KennethLavrsen
on round robin * glibc detected * free(): invalid pointer: 0xb4658008 ***	RobertoSpadim	1767	19 Jul 2005 - 03:13 KennethLavrsen

Old Bugs

See ReleaseBugFixes for bugs that have been fixed and the fix is in a released version of Motion.

See RejectedBugReports for bugs that either cannot be reproduced, waiting for additional info or we believe it has been fixed in a new version.

See DuplicatedBugReports for bugs that are duplicates of others