[Nut-upsuser] Failed to connect to parent

[Charles Lepple]

On 6/8/07, Roger Price <rprice at cs.uml.edu> wrote:
> Dear List, Sorry if this is a FAQ - I've been looking at
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/ but I havn't yet
> found the answer.
>
> I have an MGE Ellipse 1500.  I run openSUSE 10.2, kernel 2.6.18, nut
> 2.0.5.  ps shows that the following processes are running:

This is a very complete initial problem report - thanks!

> CMDSCRIPT /usr/sbin/upssched-cmd
> PIPEFN /var/state/ups/upssched.pipe
> LOCKFN /var/state/ups/upssched.lock

Is /var/state/ups owned and writeable by the NUT user?

Have the pipe and lock files been created?

> What is causing the "Failed to connect to parent" error?

It's coming from here:

http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut/browser/tags/v2.0.5/clients/upssched.c#L618

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- Charles Lepple