motioneye does not start

Troubleshooting
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Hi,

I am creating a new motioneye installation.
I installed dietpi and then installed motioneye but does not start.

The error is:

 motioneye.service - motionEye Server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/motioneye.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-05-03 18:45:24 -03; 3s ago
  Process: 2355 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/meyectl startserver -c /etc/motioneye/motioneye.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 2355 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:     from tornado.log import app_log
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/log.py", line 36, in <module>
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:     from tornado.escape import _unicode
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/escape.py", line 27, in <module>
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:     from tornado.util import PY3, unicode_type, basestring_type
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/util.py", line 32, in <module>
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]:     from inspect import getargspec
May 03 18:45:23 DietPi meyectl[2355]: ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)
May 03 18:45:24 DietPi systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 03 18:45:24 DietPi systemd[1]: motioneye.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Any help will be appreciated
adrian

2

Hi,

many thanks for your report. If you get that error, the compiled version of a Python module (the .pyc file) is corrupt probably. Might be the Tornado module according your error message. It would be needed to delete the corrupt .pyc file.

First I would recommend to create a full backup if your SD card. In case needed, you would be able to restore. Once done you can do following to delete .pyc files and force re-installation

find /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado -name '*.pyc' -delete
pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall tornado

restart your system afterwards