[Nut-upsuser] NUT Installation failing under Debian Jessie

Leslie Rhorer lrhorer at mygrande.net
Wed Oct 8 22:58:48 UTC 2014


On 10/8/2014 5:16 PM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi Leslie,
>
> 2014-09-29 17:14 GMT+02:00 Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer at mygrande.net
> <mailto:lrhorer at mygrande.net>>:
>
>
>              I just did a fresh installation of Debian Jessie on one of
>     my servers, but NUT won't configure and install.  When I try to
>     install, I get the following:
>
>     Setting up nut-client (2.7.2-1+b2) ...
>     Job for nut-monitor.service failed. See 'systemctl status
>     nut-monitor.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
>     invoke-rc.d: initscript nut-client, action "start" failed.
>     dpkg: error processing package nut-client (--configure):
>       subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>     status 1
>     dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nut-server:
>       nut-server depends on nut-client (= 2.7.2-1+b2); however:
>        Package nut-client is not configured yet.
>
>     dpkg: error processing package nut-server (--configure):
>       dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>     dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nut:
>       nut depends on nut-server; however:
>        Package nut-server is not configured yet.
>       nut depends on nut-client; however:
>        Package nut-client is not configured yet.
>
>     dpkg: error processing package nut (--configure):
>       dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>       nut-client
>       nut-server
>       nut
>     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>              Running the command `systemctl status nut-monitor.service`
>     returns:
>
>     nut-monitor.service - Network UPS Tools - power device monitor and
>     shutdown controller
>         Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nut-__monitor.service; disabled)
>         Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2014-09-29 10:07:58
>     CDT; 2min 12s ago
>        Process: 15831 ExecStart=/sbin/upsmon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: fopen
>     /var/run/nut/upsmon.pid: No such file or directory
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: Using power down flag
>     file /etc/killpower
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: Network UPS Tools upsmon
>     2.7.2
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: Fatal error: insufficient
>     power configured!
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: Sum of power
>     values........: 0
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: Minimum value
>     (MINSUPPLIES): 1
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server upsmon[15831]: Edit your upsmon.conf and
>     change the values.
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server systemd[1]: nut-monitor.service: control
>     process exited, code=exited status=1
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server systemd[1]: Failed to start Network UPS
>     Tools - power device monitor and shutdown controller.
>     Sep 29 10:07:58 RAID-Server systemd[1]: Unit nut-monitor.service
>     entered failed state.
>
>              I have reported a bug, but I am unsure how to proceed at
>     this point. Can anyone lend some advice?
>
>
>
> I realized that recently, and we're working on a 1rst attempt at a solution:
> https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/156

	I was able to get it up and running by setting MINSUPPLIES to 0 in 
upsmon.conf and then re-configuring NUT.  I think this is now a faulty 
system, however.  With MINSUPPLIES set to zero, will NUT ever force a 
shutdown?  If I reset the value to 1, will the system behave properly?




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