[Nut-upsuser] nut suddenly stopped working...

[Peter Selinger]

This looks like another driver is already attached to your Belkin.
Perhaps you already have a copy of newhidups running in the
background, or perhaps as a zombie process left over from previous
experiments. Try

ps -ef | grep ups

to see what is running, and kill it if necessary. -- Peter

A.Lizard wrote:
> 
> I almost had nut_2.0.5-3_i386.deb (from 
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/nut - installed via dpkg, not via 
> repository) working:
> 
> * problems with getting it to come up during boot
> * monitoring via knutclient was OK
> * shutdown on low battery worked adequately, if not quite as described)
> 
> and newhidups suddenly stopped talking to my Belkin F6C550-AVR . It's only 
> been in use for a couple of months, so I doubt it's a hardware problem. And 
> in general, the USB setup works, my printer runs just fine.
> 
> also installed - nut-usb nut-dev (2.0.5-3)
> 
> Computer hardware:
> Biostar Geforce 6100 AM2  (integrated motherboard nvidia chipsets)
> OS: Debian Etch
> terrarium:/home/alizard/install# uname -a
> Linux terrarium 2.6.18-3-486 #1 Mon Dec 4 15:59:52 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> thanks
> A.Lizard
> 
> terrarium:/etc/default# /lib/nut/newhidups -DD port=auto
> Network UPS Tools: 0.28 USB communication driver 0.28 - core 0.30 (2.0.5)
> 
> Checking device (050D/0551) (001/008)
> - VendorID: 050d
> - ProductID: 0551
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
> failed to claim USB device, trying 2 more time(s)...
> detaching kernel driver from USB device...
> failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...
> trying again to claim USB device...
> failed to claim USB device, trying 1 more time(s)...
> detaching kernel driver from USB device...
> failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...
> trying again to claim USB device...
> failed to claim USB device, trying 0 more time(s)...
> detaching kernel driver from USB device...
> failed to detach kernel driver from USB device...
> trying again to claim USB device...
> Unable to get HID descriptor (error sending control message: Operation not 
> permitted)
> HID descriptor retrieved (Reportlen = 424)
> Unable to get Report descriptor (-1): Operation not permitted
> 
> Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)
> - VendorID: 0000
> - ProductID: 0000
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 001
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> No appropriate HID device found
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