[Nut-upsuser] Bug#435000: nut 2.0.5-3+b1 reports low battery, previous versions do not

[Arnaud Quette]

2007/9/8, Arjen de Korte <nut+users at de-korte.org>:
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> >> I've not had time (nor will have) to digg all the thread on the nut
> >> ml, so can you update me about the status of the below one please.
> > Yeah basically any version newer than 2.0.4 says the battery is low
> > (which is incorrect) so for now I set it to hold at that version,
> > otherwise I get e-mail and syslog alerts etc that the battery is low.
>
> This was fixed in r1034. The addition of the report buffer in nut-2.0.5
> caused the mechanism to ignore the faulty INPUT report
>
>         "UPS.PowerSummary.BelowRemainingCapacityLimit"
>
> to fail sometimes (if we would read the same FEATURE report within two
> seconds after receiving the INPUT report). The report is now ignored
> completely (we read the low battery status from another report), so this
> should be working again.

thanks for this update Arjen.
seems applicable to Testing. Can you please take care of backporting this?
I'll mail about 2.2.1, scheduled for this week.

Arnaud
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