Web access no longer works

[vector457]

I broke something.
Ubuntu 22.04 on PC, motion 4.3.2
The PC ubuntu box, that runs motion was due for an update(its been a few months at least).
I ran the update and now the web interface ie looking at 8080 just times out with no response.

motion itself seems to be running... ie the camera files are being created the log is being written.
But {ip}:8080 just times out now.
Thinking it was time I updated motion( I cant recall now how I installed that)
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade motion
motion is already the newest version (4.3.2-1ubuntu0.1) .....hmmmm

Yet the motion github says 4.6.
So I followed the instructions:
wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/release-4.6.0
and it saved the file.
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
which installed ok
sudo gdebi {deb package name} now I've tried {motion} and {release-4.6.0} with various errors

sudo gdebi release-4.6.0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Unknown package type 'release-4.6.0', exiting

so I need help with either the upgrade syntax
or
working out why the web page server bit has died.

or both.

[tosiara]

wget https://github.com/Motion-Project/motion/releases/download/release-4.6.0/jammy_motion_4.6.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i jammy_motion_4.6.0-1_amd64.deb

[vector457]

Ok 4.6 installed and going by the log its running.
Still no web page.
I'll have to find some time to trace thru it all and see whats happening ;(
thx

[vector457]

Looking at a fresh startup(pc restart) log everything looks ok till about line 208

webu_start_strm: Starting all camera streams on port 8081
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Aug 11 18:23:56] webu_start_strm: Unable to start stream for camera 0
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Aug 11 18:23:56] webu_start_ctrl: Starting webcontrol on port 8080
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Aug 11 18:23:56] webu_start_ctrl: Unable to start MHD
[0:motion] [NTC] [ENC] [Aug 11 18:23:56] ffmpeg_global_init: ffmpeg libavcodec version 58.134.100 libavformat version 58.76.100
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Aug 11 18:23:56] translate_init: Language: English

Looking at an old archived log from when it was working...
webu_start_strm: Starting all camera streams on port 8081
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Dec 11 13:55:40] webu_strm_ntc: Started camera 101 stream on port/camera_id 8081/101
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Dec 11 13:55:40] webu_strm_ntc: Started camera 102 stream on port/camera_id 8081/102
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Dec 11 13:55:40] webu_strm_ntc: Started camera 103 stream on port/camera_id 8081/103
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Dec 11 13:55:40] webu_strm_ntc: Started camera 104 stream on port/camera_id 8081/104
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Dec 11 13:55:40] webu_start_ctrl: Starting webcontrol on port 8080
[0:motion] [NTC] [STR] [Dec 11 13:55:40] webu_start_ctrl: Started webcontrol on port 8080
[0:motion] [NTC] [ENC] [Dec 11 13:55:40] ffmpeg_global_init: ffmpeg libavcodec version 58.91.100 libavformat version 58.45.100
[0:motion] [NTC] [ALL] [Dec 11 13:55:40] translate_init: Language: English

thoughts?

[vector457]

Update:
im getting somewhere now. looks like a config file got confused after the update.
Having an issue with just one camera now but at least I can see things