[Nut-upsdev] bestfortress driver establishes/loses/establishes communication and so on...

[Stuart D Gathman]

Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on 01/19/2012 07:35 AM, Michal
Hlavinka would write:
>>> Yes, on Fedora 16, you have to start nut-server before nut-monitor, and
>>> systemd tries to start them at once.  Haven't got around to
>>> reporting that.
>>> I don't think this problem is fortress specific.
> it *should* work :)
>> quickly looking at the service files, nut-monitor is marked to be
>> started after nut-server, and nut-server after nut-driver
>> so you may be hitting a systemd bug.
> could you please provide part from /var/log/messages, where
> nut-{driver,server} are being started? Also what systemd and nut
> version do you have (together with release number) ? rpm -q nut systemd
After boot, only upsmon is running (and whining about no server) and
messages contains:

Jan 21 12:53:30 melissa systemd[1]: Service nut-driver.service is not
needed anymore. Stopping.
Jan 21 12:53:30 melissa systemd[1]: Requested transaction contradicts
existing jobs: File exists

I can then manually start nut-server.service.  Status is then:

# systemctl status nut-server.service
nut-server.service - Network UPS Tools - power devices information server
      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service; enabled)
      Active: active (running) since Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:33:30 -0500; 2min 26s ago
     Process: 6259 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/upsd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Main PID: 6260 (upsd)
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nut-server.service
          └ 6260 /usr/sbin/upsd
# rpm -q nut systemd
nut-2.6.2-2.fc16.i686
systemd-37-3.fc16.i686

> There is one bug in systemd, that breaks driver-server relation:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704197, it was fixed
> recently, but it's still not available as update.