[Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Belkin USB UPSes

[Eric S. Raymond]

Kjell Claesson <kjell.claesson at epost.tidanet.se>:
> Normaly it should say something more than 'exit 1'.

Yes, I think so.  That's part of my issue here I don't want to just 
solve the problem, I want to make the diagnostic messages better so
nobody has to be as confused as I am.
 
> Did You install from svn ?

Yes.

> And if so, did You set the state_path during configure. You may be
> missing or having the wrong rights on that directory.
> Default it should be /var/state/nut/.

esr at snark:~$ ls -ld /var/state/ups/
drwxr-xr-x 2 nut nut 4096 2007-05-22 12:46 /var/state/ups/

> This directory holds the driver socket, and if it don't exist it
> would make the upsdrvctrl exit with a error.

So, in that case shouldn't upsdrvctl emit a message more like "driver socket
nonexistent or inaccessible -- please check /var/state/nut/"?  If not,
why not?

> > (I plan to submit a patch for the installation instructions  if we
> > can figure this out, so your advice will benefit the next person to
> > trip over this, too.)
> 
> Take care that there is difference depending on udev version and libusb.
> 
> As ther was changes around the access to /proc in the kernel, this is
> changed in the udev. So now it makes devices under /dev/bus/usb/xxx
> 
> And for libusb,
> Quote:
> * Fri Jan 27 2006 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> 0.1.11-2
> - change device search order, /dev/bus/usb is tried first,
>   then /proc/bus/usb, and never try /sys/bus/usb (#178994)
> Unquote
> 
> This was released in libusb 0.1.12 so now the device is
> /dev/bus/usb/00x/00x
> 
> The /proc/bus/usb/xxx/xxx is setup to belong to root:usb now.

OK, what do I *do* with this information?  What should go in the
installation instructions?
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>