[Nut-upsuser] NUT v2.6.4 with HP AF401A won't start

[Pratt Chris]

Hi Arnaud, and apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

For a totally separate reason I’d intended to install NUT on a new VMware image so, in view of your comments and to avoid confusion at a later date with a hybrid installation, I decided to install on the new image from the tarball and set up the start/stop script manually.

I unpacked the tarball, applied the patch you sent me and then ran the configure/make/make install sequence.  The driver started OK as it did on the old image so I copied the /etc/init.d/ups script installed by the rpm package from the old image to the new one and edited the paths.  I then ran chkconfig to set it up as a service.  I haven’t fully tested that yet as I haven’t completed the config but I see no reason why it won’t work.

Many thanks for your help with this.

Regards,

Chris.

Chris Pratt
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From: Arnaud Quette [mailto:aquette.dev at gmail.com]
Sent: 01 November 2012 11:50
To: Pratt Chris
Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT v2.6.4 with HP AF401A won't start


2012/10/31 Pratt Chris <Chris.Pratt at comptel.com<mailto:Chris.Pratt at comptel.com>>
Hi Arnaud.

Hi Chris,

I think you’ve cracked it.  The following terminal output shows the package and also shows that when I start it from /usr/local/ups/bin it doesn’t crash.

nice, I've committed the patch to the trunk (NUT development version), r3769:
http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3769

[root at ups-monitor bin]# rpm -q nut
nut-2.6.4-1.el6.x86_64
[root at ups-monitor bin]# which upsdrvctl
/sbin/upsdrvctl
[root at ups-monitor bin]# pwd
/usr/local/ups/bin
[root at ups-monitor bin]# ./upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.6.5
Network UPS Tools - Generic SNMP UPS driver 0.68 (2.6.5)
Detected HP R12000/3UPS on host 192.168.0.89 (mib: cpqpower 1.5)
[UPS-HP01] snmp_ups_walk: data stale for ups.L1.realpower
[UPS-HP01] snmp_ups_walk: data stale for ups.L2.realpower
[UPS-HP01] snmp_ups_walk: data stale for ups.L3.realpower
[root at ups-monitor bin]#

I’ve uninstalled the package and re-run make install just to be sure and it starts up fine with upsdrvctl start, with the following message in /var/log/messages.
Oct 30 09:20:25 ups-monitor snmp-ups[32252]: Startup successful

Now it’s on to finishing the configuration and setting up the clients.

beware of 1 thing: the main difference with a source install, as you did lastly, and a native package (RPM) is the system/shutdown integration.

the init.d / systemd script will look for binaries (upsd, drivers, ...), in the known path, not /usr/local/ups/{bin,sbin}...

so you may want to keep your original rpm and overwrite snmp-ups with the new one.
thus, uninstall first the current install and reconfigure using the following:

./configure --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-all --with-nss --with-libltdl --without-hal --with-cgi --datadir=/usr/share/nut --with-user=nut --with-group=dialout --with-statepath=/var/run/nut --with-pidpath=/var/run/nut --with-altpidpath=/var/run/nut --sysconfdir=/etc/ups --with-cgipath=/var/www/nut-cgi-bin --with-drvpath=/sbin --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/usr/lib/systemd/system --disable-static --with-udev-dir=/lib/udev

the above is a trimmed version of the one provided by Michal Hlavinka.
but you may want or need to trim it a bit more...

cheers,
Arnaud
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