[Nut-upsuser] ups does not reboot itself

[Charles Lepple]

On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:46 AM, dmanye <dmanye at urv.cat> wrote:

> El 15/07/15 a les 14:18, Charles Lepple ha escrit:
>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 7:17 AM, dmanye <dmanye at urv.cat> wrote:
>> 
>>> i have a computer (with debian 8 jessie installed) that i want to plug to an ups (apc smt 750i) to act in netserver mode. i've installed nut packages and configured it and all seems to work ok except that when the server shutdown itself it ups doesn't "reboot" the outlets.
>> What is the exact NUT package version
> 2.4.2-4

2.7.2-4? (Sorry to sound pedantic, just trying to get the right version in the list archives.) I was concerned that there was an older package sticking around, but that is of course less likely with a new install.

>> , and which driver are you using?
> usbhid-ups
>> 
>> Also, is this a new Debian installation, or was it upgraded from wheezy?
> new install
>>  (If I understand correctly - I haven't upgraded yet - this determines which init system is used to control the shutdown.)
> yes, debian 8 by default installs systemd but i've switched back to sysvinit (2.88dsf-59) on both computers. in fact, libsystemd0 remains installed because essential packages depend on it.

libsystemd0 shouldn't matter - I just wanted to make sure I was looking at the correct init scripts. Here's nut-server.init corresponding to 2.7.2-4:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/nut.git/tree/debian/nut-server.init?id=564becd819124049542e5085a7159dd62e00ef97#n151

It does "/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown", which runs "/lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a <name-of-ups> -k" to kill power:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/nut.git/tree/drivers/upsdrvctl.c?id=564becd819124049542e5085a7159dd62e00ef97#n337

In the output of "upsc" for your UPS, is "ups.start.auto" turned on? Do the values for "ups.delay.shutdown" and "ups.delay.start" (times in seconds) look reasonable?

What you can do is run "/lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a <name-of-ups> -k -DDD" (as root) with the computer powered from another UPS or outlet. That will show any debug messages as the driver tries to shut down the UPS. (The driver tries "shutdown.return" before "shutdown.stayoff".) You may want to add "2>&1 | tee /tmp/ups-shutdown.log" to the command line, then gzip and attach that log to your reply to keep the message size small.

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Charles Lepple
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