[Nut-upsuser] Help with nut 2.0.4, MGE Ellipse 1000 and FreeBSD

[Peter Selinger]

Arjen de Korte wrote:
> 
> Miwa Forever wrote:
> 
> > As for changing MAXAGE directive - with values 60 and greater ups become
> > available from pc, at least i can see it's state with upsc. But in
> > /var/log/messages we can see next:
> > 
> > Dec 29 17:13:37 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no longer
> > stale
> > Dec 29 17:13:39 zork3 upsd[14370]: Data for UPS [MGE-Ellipse] is stale -
> > check driver
> > Dec 29 17:13:39 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no longer stale
> > Dec 29 17:13:42 zork3 upsd[14370]: Data for UPS [MGE-Ellipse] is stale -
> > check driver
> > Dec 29 17:13:42 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no longer stale
> > Dec 29 17:13:44 zork3 upsd[14370]: Data for UPS [MGE-Ellipse] is stale -
> > check driver
> > Dec 29 17:13:44 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no longer
> > stale
> > Dec 29 17:13:47 zork3 upsd[14370]: Data for UPS [MGE-Ellipse] is stale -
> > check driver
> > Dec 29 17:13:47 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no longer stale
> > Dec 29 17:13:50 zork3 upsd[14370]: Data for UPS [MGE-Ellipse] is stale -
> > check driver
> > Dec 29 17:13:50 zork3 upsd[14370]: UPS [MGE-Ellipse] data is no longer stale
> > 
> > I'm not sure that it's good desision to leave this "as is". Am i right?
> 
> It looks like the connection between driver and upsd is continuously
> dropping. This could be a driver problem or an upsd problem. Since the
> driver is not reporting anything out of the ordinary, I suggest to
> checkout the latest version from SVN. There were a couple of problems
> with the staleness checks in upsd which were fixed in the trunk.
> 
> Best regards, Arjen

Alternatively to SVN, you may upgrade to 2.0.5-pre1, which was
released on Dec 20. I think this contains all of the relevant
bugfixes.

-- Peter