AutoStartDaemonProducesNoVideoOutput

Question

I've installed Motion on Ubuntu 14.04 and configured it with my USBcamera (dev/video0). It all works great when I start Motion from the command line (sudo motion). I can view camera output at 10.1.10.10:8081 and I can access the sys admin at port 8080 - all recordings are placed in /home/wayne/motion (set in /etc/motion/motion.conf)

However when automatically start the daemon # set to 'yes' to enable the motion daemon start_motion_daemon=yes then proceed to start recording with sudo /usr/bin/lwp-request http://localhost:8080/0/detection/start > /dev/null I get a blank video screen at 10.1.10.10:8081 and at port 8080 I get a "will not connect" message. I've looked through syslog and see a very long list of Motion trying various configuration that ultimately fail... as if it cannot find the configuration file...

A portion of syslog
 Dec  4 11:48:45 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] 0: YUYV (YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV))
Dec  4 11:48:45 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] 1: H264 (H.264)
Dec  4 11:48:45 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Selected palette YUYV
Dec  4 11:48:45 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  609.436707] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  614.400148] usb 1-3: 3:4: cannot set freq 48000 to ep 0x86
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  614.436153] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] VIDIOC_TRY_FMT failed for format YUYV: Input/output error
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Unable to find a compatible palette format.
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Inappropriate ioctl for device
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Retrying until successful connection with camera
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.card: "UVC Camera (046d:080c)"
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.bus_info: "usb-0000:00:14.0-3"
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.capabilities=0x84200001
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
Dec  4 11:48:50 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] - STREAMING
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  619.435596] usb 1-3: 3:4: cannot set freq 48000 to ep 0x86
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Config palette index 8 (YU12) doesn't work.
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Supported palettes:
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] 0: YUYV (YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV))
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] 1: H264 (H.264)
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Selected palette YUYV
Dec  4 11:48:55 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  619.455552] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  624.434996] usb 1-3: 3:4: cannot set freq 48000 to ep 0x86
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] VIDIOC_TRY_FMT failed for format YUYV: Input/output error
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  624.454982] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Unable to find a compatible palette format.
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] ioctl (VIDIOCGCAP): Inappropriate ioctl for device
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Retrying until successful connection with camera
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.driver: "uvcvideo"
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.card: "UVC Camera (046d:080c)"
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.bus_info: "usb-0000:00:14.0-3"
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] cap.capabilities=0x84200001
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] - VIDEO_CAPTURE
Dec  4 11:49:00 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] - STREAMING
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  629.434421] usb 1-3: 3:4: cannot set freq 48000 to ep 0x86
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Config palette index 8 (YU12) doesn't work.
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Supported palettes:
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] 0: YUYV (YUV 4:2:2 (YUYV))
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] 1: H264 (H.264)
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice motion: [1] Selected palette YUYV
Dec  4 11:49:05 wayneTVOffice kernel: [  629.478378] uvcvideo: Failed to set UVC probe control : -110 (exp. 26).
 

Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12
ffmpeg version:
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	ubuntu 14.04

-- WayneGregori - 04 Dec 2015

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