[Nut-upsuser] Problem installing NUT on 16.04

[Jack McGee]

On 12/03/2016 08:03 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2016, at 10:23 PM, Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
>> This is new install on Ubuntu 16.04, using packages from Synaptic,
>> Network UPS Tools upsd 2.7.2
>>
>> I am getting these messages in the terminal:
>> Broadcast message from nut at amethi (somewhere) (Fri Dec  2 12:33:03 2016):
>>                                                                                 
>> UPS CyberUPS1 at localhost is unavailable
>>
>> I am still unclear on where to set when nut shutdowns system.
> The basic configuration is that upsmon will shut down the system (running SHUTDOWNCMD in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf) when the UPS signals that its battery is low.
>
> Your UPS probably indicates this currently:
>
> $ upsc tl ups.status 2>/dev/null
> OL
>
> The last line will change to "OB" when the power fails, and "OB LB" when the UPS has passed one of its low-power thresholds.
>
> It looks like this UPS supports both a battery level threshold, and a time-remaining threshold:
>
> http://networkupstools.org/ddl/Cyber_Power_Systems/CP1500PFCLCD.html
>
>   * battery.charge.low
>   * battery.runtime.low
>
> You can adjust these with the "upsrw" command, but I don't think we have verified whether the settings are stored in non-volatile memory on this particular UPS.
>
>> I had problem initially starting:
>>
>> mythuser at amethi:/etc/nut$ sudo upsdrvctl start
>> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.2
>> Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.38 (2.7.2)
>> USB communication driver 0.32
>> Can't claim USB device [0764:0501]: could not detach kernel driver from interface 0: Operation not permitted
>> Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
>>
>> But that appeared to be resolved by unplugging USB cable and replugging it.
>>
> This bug still applies: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/1540008
>
> I should add a fix for that to my PPA build.
>
> Speaking of which, there have been some long-term stability bugs related to the USB controllers on newer motherboards with the particular USB access method that NUT uses. Full history is here, but towards the end is a success story with a similar UPS (1000PFCLCD): https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/300#issuecomment-263090233
>
> The PPA switches NUT from libusb-0.1 to 1.0.
>
> https://launchpad.net/%7Eclepple/+archive/ubuntu/nut


thanks.

I added the repository, updated:

Preparing to unpack 
.../libupsclient4_2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libupsclient4:amd64 (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) 
over (2.7.2-4ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack 
.../nut-client_2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nut-client (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) over 
(2.7.2-4ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack 
.../nut-server_2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nut-server (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) over 
(2.7.2-4ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack 
.../nut_2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758_all.deb ...
Unpacking nut (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) over 
(2.7.2-4ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack 
.../nut-cgi_2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nut-cgi (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) over 
(2.7.2-4ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack 
.../nut-doc_2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758_all.deb ...
Unpacking nut-doc (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) over 
(2.7.2-4ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu12) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
Processing 4 changed doc-base files...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up libupsclient4:amd64 (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) ...
Setting up nut-client (2.7.4-0ubuntu6~xenial~libusb1~gb0e1758) ...

But doesn't this still indicate an error:

mythuser at amethi:/etc/nut$ upscmd -l CyberPower1
Error: Connection failure: Connection refused