[Nut-upsuser] Belkin support?

[Charles Lepple]

On May 31, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 31 May 2009, Rob MacGregor wrote:
>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 19:26, Gene Heskett  
>> <gene.heskett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I have the newest nut (nut-2.2.2-4.fc10.i386) from fedora 10 repos)
>>> installed and this ups (from lsusb -vv):
>>
>> Note that 2.2.2 is over a year old.  2.4.1 is the latest version.  If
>> you run into any problems expect to be advised to upgrade.
>
> I'll take that up with Rahul.  If that's the case, I am not allergic  
> to
> building from the tarball, some of the stuff I run here straight  
> from the
> tarball, like the kernel is 2.6.30-rc7, and amanda is from  
> yesterdays snapshot
> of what will become amanda-2.6.2 in a few months.

Sorry to jump in on Rob's reply, but one thing with NUT (like the  
kernel, but more so) is that it is tied into things like the system's  
shutdown procedure. It is harder to set that up from scratch than it  
is to attempt to work with the packages you already have.

Another compromise would be to see if there is a newer SRPM on RawHide  
(or whatever they're calling that these days).

(In this particular case, I don't see any usbhid-ups driver-side  
differences between v2.2.2 and v2.4.1, besides a refactoring in how  
the USB IDs are matched, so upgrading may not solve anything by itself.)

> However, I have no clue if I have a problem because I can't get it  
> to run at
> all.
>
> [root at coyote amanda]# service ups start
> Starting UPS driver controller:                            [FAILED]

The "UPS driver controller" is what should be starting usbhid-ups. Can  
you post your /etc/nut/ups.conf file?

> Starting upsd:                                             [  OK  ]
> Starting UPS monitor (master):                             [FAILED]

upsmon wants to talk to the driver through upsd, so this may be fixed  
by the driver issue.