[Nut-upsuser] Can't get iDowell to work

[Mick]

On 11 January 2011 00:07, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 10 January 2011 12:19:34 you wrote:
>>> Hi Mick
>>>
>>> 2011/1/9 Mick <michaelkintzios at gmail.com>
>>
>>> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17840 Jul 25 11:45 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-hid-ups
>> [snip ...]
>>
>>> > Could any of the above be causing the clash?
>>>
>>> indeed, /usr/libexec/hald-addon-hid-ups which is part of UPower (integrated
>>> power management), which is automatically launched when a new USB/HID UPS
>>> is plugged.
>>> since UPower is running as root, it will prevent usbhid-ups from claiming
>>> back your UPS after software disconnection.
>>> you may try to run nut as root to check if you still see the claim
>>> interface failure.
>>>
>>> I'll have to check UPower, since iirc, it wasn't previously running as root
>>> (or I'm maybe confusing with HAL...)
>>
>> So assuming that the new driver can now deal with my UPS, is this something
>> that I'll have wait for to settle, as hal is deprecated and on a path to be
>> replaced with upower?
>
> The simple answer is you can only have one of the following attached
> to your UPS: the HAL driver, or the normal NUT usbhid-ups driver.

Right, I wasn't sure if NUT usbhid-ups was working with hal, or if it
is independent of it.

I've stopped hal and noticed no difference.  This is what hal is polling:

$ ps axf | grep -i hal
30796 pts/3    S+     0:00                  \_ grep --colour=auto -i hal
30711 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no
30712 ?        S      0:00  \_ hald-runner
30743 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on
/dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event1
30759 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid
socket /var/run/acpid.socket
30760 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/sdb (every 2 sec)
30761 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/sdc (every 2 sec)
30762 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/sdd (every 2 sec)
30763 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/sde (every 2 sec)
30764 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
30765 ?        S      0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/sr1 (every 2 sec)


> If /usr/libexec/hald-addon-hid-ups is launched by UPower, you may have
> to either disable UPower and use NUT's interface to shut down the
> system, or use whatever UPower is doing these days.

No idea how to disable upower (or if it is even desirable to do so).
It doesn't show up under running processes.
-- 
Regards,
Mick