[Nut-upsuser] MGE Pulsar M 3000 communication problems

[Peter Selinger]

Ingo Schaefer wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I installed nut 2.0.4 on a Solaris 8 and tried two things:
> 
> First I wanted the ups to connect via usb, but I could not compile the
> usb drivers. Make usb told me: no target named usb found

Strange. Doesn't your Makefile contain a line "usb: build-usb"?  Make
sure to do "make usb" in the main NUT directory, not in one of the
subdirectories such as drivers/. -- Peter
 
> Second, because both ups and host have serial ports I tried to get it
> working with serial.
> 
> The driver starts very fine, but takes a long time to detect the ups.
> 
> Upsd starts too, but while get in contact with the ups I am told:
> 
> Connected to UPS [mge3000-1]: mge-shut-ttyb
> Synchronizing........ giving up
> 
> Starting upsmon is working as well, but I get strange communication
> events from then.
> 
> suncore:root> Broadcast Message from nut (???) on suncore Wed Sep 27
> 15:47:42...Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost lost
> Broadcast Message from nut (???) on suncore Wed Sep 27 15:47:52...
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost established
> Broadcast Message from nut (???) on suncore Wed Sep 27 15:48:12...
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost lost
> Broadcast Message from nut (???) on suncore Wed Sep 27 15:48:22...
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost established
> Broadcast Message from nut (???) on suncore Wed Sep 27 15:48:57...
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost lost
> Broadcast Message from nut (???) on suncore Wed Sep 27 15:49:12...
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost established
> 
> Syslog shows:
> 
> Sep 27 15:32:08 suncore mge-shut[957]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Startup
> successful
> Sep 27 15:32:08 suncore upsd[958]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Connected to
> UPS [mge3000-1]: mge-shut-ttyb
> Sep 27 15:32:13 suncore upsd[959]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Startup
> successful
> Sep 27 15:34:12 suncore upsd[959]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Data for
> UPS [mge3000-1] is stale - check driver
> Sep 27 15:34:26 suncore upsd[959]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] UPS
> [mge3000-1] data is no longer stale
> Sep 27 15:34:38 suncore upsd[959]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Data for
> UPS [mge3000-1] is stale - check driver
> Sep 27 15:34:53 suncore upsd[959]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] UPS
> [mge3000-1] data is no longer stale
> Sep 27 15:36:27 suncore upsd[959]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Data for
> UPS [mge3000-1] is stale - check driver
> 
> Sep 27 15:48:07 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Data for
> UPS [mge3000-1] is stale - check driver
> Sep 27 15:48:12 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Poll UPS
> [mge3000-1 at localhost] failed - Data stale
> Sep 27 15:48:12 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice]
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost lost
> Sep 27 15:48:12 suncore wall: [ID 254490 auth.crit] dtlocal in utmpx is
> not a tty
> Sep 27 15:48:17 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Poll UPS
> [mge3000-1 at localhost] failed - Data stale
> Sep 27 15:48:21 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] UPS
> [mge3000-1] data is no longer stale
> Sep 27 15:48:22 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice]
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost established
> Sep 27 15:48:22 suncore wall: [ID 254490 auth.crit] dtlocal in utmpx is
> not a tty
> Sep 27 15:48:57 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Data for
> UPS [mge3000-1] is stale - check driver
> Sep 27 15:48:57 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Poll UPS
> [mge3000-1 at localhost] failed - Data stale
> Sep 27 15:48:57 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice]
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost lost
> Sep 27 15:48:57 suncore wall: [ID 254490 auth.crit] dtlocal in utmpx is
> not a tty
> Sep 27 15:49:02 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Poll UPS
> [mge3000-1 at localhost] failed - Data stale
> Sep 27 15:49:07 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Poll UPS
> [mge3000-1 at localhost] failed - Data stale
> Sep 27 15:49:11 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] UPS
> [mge3000-1] data is no longer stale
> Sep 27 15:49:12 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice]
> Communications with UPS mge3000-1 at localhost established
> Sep 27 15:49:12 suncore wall: [ID 254490 auth.crit] dtlocal in utmpx is
> not a tty
> Sep 27 15:49:23 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Data for
> UPS [mge3000-1] is stale - check driver
> Sep 27 15:49:24 suncore upsmon[1511]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Signal 15:
> exiting
> Sep 27 15:49:24 suncore upsmon[1509]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] upsmon
> parent: read: Bad file number
> Sep 27 15:49:24 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Client
> monitor at 127.0.0.1 logged out
> Sep 27 15:49:26 suncore upsd[1504]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Signal 15:
> exiting
> Sep 27 15:49:26 suncore mge-shut[1502]: [ID 702911 daemon.info] Signal
> 15: exiting
> 
> Anyone has an idea?
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo