[Nut-upsuser] Can't claim USB device

[Lee Gold]

The reboot worked. Thank You! 

Now I get:

$ sudo upsdrvctl start
[sudo] password for wsadmin:
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.6.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.35 (2.6.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
Can't chdir to /var/run/nut: No such file or directory
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)

I'm going to do:

mkdir /var/run/nut
chown root:nut /var/run/nut
chmod 770 /var/run/nut

Is this right? Are the chmod permissions correct?

Thanks again.
 
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lee Gold <leegold at operamail.com> writes:
> > Ubuntu Server 12.04, Nut installed with sudo apt-get install nut
> > ...
> > Tried this and got error message:
> > Can't claim USB device [0764:0501]: could not detach kernel driver from
> > interface 0: Operation not permitted
> 
> Did you reboot after installing the nut package?  Just a couple days ago
> I connected up a USB UPS to a Red Hat machine, and then installed nut,
> and found that the kernel had already grabbed the device.  Apparently
> nut's hotplug definition files have to be in place at boot time to
> prevent
> that.  Maybe things work differently on Ubuntu, but it's worth a try.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

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