[Nut-upsuser] ups does not reboot itself

[Mark Hansen]

On 7/17/2015 6:42 AM, dmanye wrote:
> El 16/07/15 a les 14:16, Charles Lepple ha escrit:
>>  On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:09 AM, dmanye<dmanye at urv.cat>  wrote:
>>
>>>  surprisingly, now both computers made the ups reboot !?!?!?!? so i've tried once more and confirmed that while forcing the reboot works, the computer itself does not reboot the ups when the battery is too low.
>>  I think you figured it out: the UPS probably has another low-battery threshold, below which it will not start back up until it charges some more. If the UPS shuts down at 10%, and the power comes back briefly, there would be a period of time where the computer is powered, but NUT hasn't started.
>>
>>  Usually, this is shown as the "battery.charge.restart" variable, but  I have a feeling that this is one of the APC Smart-UPS models that has a lot more settings available via other protocols.
>>
>>  Here is some more background info:
>>
>>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.monitoring.nut.devel/6749
>>
>>  What does 'lsusb -d 051d: -vvv' return?
>>
>
> now i get it working although i really understand nothing.
>
> while the commands '/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown' and 'lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a
> <name-of-ups>  -k' make the ups to force a reboot on the computer, the
> command 'upsmon -c fsd' fails and the ups does not reboot the output
> outlets.
>
> i also tried to, once upsmon is running, set the powerdown flag with its
> magic string and then issue the 'upsmon -c fsd'. fail. one of the last
> messages of the computer before powering off is something like the power
> down flag is not set.
>
> then i reinstalled the computer to get a fresh install (it's easy
> because i'm using netinstall+preseed). test again and failed again.
>
> so i reinstalled again... but instead of using four separate partitions
> for /, /usr, /var and /tmp, put all the stuff under an unique /
> partition and... it works! why exactly? no idea, because if i'm not
> wrong, nut sensitive stuff is under /lib, /sbin, /etc...

My guess is it has to do with the time in the shutdown process where the file
systems are unmounted. I had a similar problem when I set up Nut a few years
ago.

>
> works? yes BUT... i put in /etc/default/halt HALT=halt (by default it
> contains HALT=poweroff) so that the last messages remain on screen to
> look for possible error messages and it stopped working. if i put
> HALT=poweroff again, the ups is rebooted.
>
> so, does anybody know why having separate partitions conditions nut
> behaviour? and why /etc/default/halt has also effect on why nut does
> with the ups?
>
> thanks.
>
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