[Nut-upsuser] newhidups dies after a few hours

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi Ricardo,

2006/4/26, Ricardo Bugalho <ricardo.b at zmail.pt>:
> Hello,
> I'm using NUT to manage a MGE Ellipse ASR UPS, with the newhidups
> driver.
> It works fine, except that after a few hours, I get a few errors from
> the kernel and the driver dies.
>
> Here's the output from the syslog:
> Apr 26 02:00:41 ezquiel kernel: usb 1-1: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed
> cmd newhidups rqt 128 rq 6 len 255 ret -110
> Apr 26 02:00:43 ezquiel last message repeated 2 times
> Apr 26 02:00:43 ezquiel upsd[4570]: Data for UPS [mgeups] is stale -
> check driver
> Apr 26 02:00:44 ezquiel upsmon[4573]: Poll UPS [mgeups at localhost] failed
> - Data stale
> Apr 26 02:00:45 ezquiel upsd[4570]: UPS [mgeups] disconnected - check
> driver
> Apr 26 02:00:45 ezquiel upsd[4570]: Can't connect to UPS [mgeups]
> (newhidups-auto): Connection refused
> Apr 26 02:00:49 ezquiel upsmon[4573]: Poll UPS [mgeups at localhost] failed
> - Driver not connected
>
> I'm using a 2.6.16 kernel and NUT 2.0.3 (both are stock debian builds).
>
> Anyone has any ideas about the problem?

is the driver still alive? If not, this is related to this problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354305

I've already put the fix in the Testing tree, so that 2.0.4 will include it.

Arnaud
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