[Nut-upsdev] newhidups (2.03-pre2) not working with APC Back-UPS

[Peter Selinger]

Excellent. Can you again post the output of 'upsc UPS at localhost'?
There should be some additional variables recognized.

The other error you reported (double free or corruption) is not
connected to this patch, but is worrisome nonetheless.

-- Peter

Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Peter Selinger wrote:
> > 
> > > I see. The Back-UPS 500 organizes its usage tree differently. Try the
> > > attached patch. If it works, I will commit it to CVS. -- Peter
> > 
> > The patch didn't apply cleanly - only due to white space differences I 
> > think. But after massaging the patch, the first run time effort doesn't 
> > look good:
> 
> Wait on, that was silliness on my part. I'd commented out the patch line 
> in my rpm spec file, until I remade the diff file.
> 
> > =>Got to reconnect!
> > 
> > ==================================================
> > = device has been disconnected, try to reconnect =
> > ==================================================
> > Closing device
> > *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x0805c450 ***
> > Aborted
> > [root at test7 ~]#
> 
> So, that was with unpatched 2.0.3-pre2. But not repeatable. When I 
> restarted newhidups, it behaved sanely.
> 
> Now after applying your changes, upsmon appears to be happy:
> 
> ...
> polling ups: UPS at localhost
> get_var: UPS at localhost / status
>      status: [OL]
>     parsing: [OL]: ups_on_line(UPS at localhost) (no change)
> 
> polling ups: UPS at localhost
> get_var: UPS at localhost / status
>      status: [OL]
>     parsing: [OL]: ups_on_line(UPS at localhost) (no change)
> ...
> 
> Moreover, it notices when I pull the power on the UPS:
> 
> ...
> polling ups: UPS at localhost
> get_var: UPS at localhost / status
>      status: [OL]
>     parsing: [OL]: ups_on_line(UPS at localhost) (no change)
> 
> polling ups: UPS at localhost
> get_var: UPS at localhost / status
>      status: [OB DISCHRG]
>     parsing: [OB]: ups_on_batt(UPS at localhost) (first time)
> do_notify: ntype 0x0001 (ONBATT)
> UPS UPS at localhost on battery
>     parsing: [DISCHRG]:
> 
> Broadcast message from nut (Thu Jan 26 17:34:46 2006):
> 
> UPS UPS at localhost on battery
> polling ups: UPS at localhost
> get_var: UPS at localhost / status
>      status: [OB DISCHRG]
>     parsing: [OB]: ups_on_batt(UPS at localhost) (no change)
>     parsing: [DISCHRG]:
> 
> ...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Charlie
>