[Nut-upsuser] This one's a head-scratcher.

[Bill Gee]

My thoughts ...

First, this is only a problem in Fedora 37.  On Fedora 36 it works.

Second, Fedora 37 has only been out for about three weeks.  I bet 
adoption is still ramping up.

Third - A good point about many people using laptops and so not needing 
a UPS.  Even so, there are millions of systems running Fedora.  You 
would think more people would have noticed.

However - The only reason I noticed is because I set up logwatch to 
include output from upsc in the daily report.  When that went missing, I 
went hunting.  If I did not have that daily logwatch, I would never have 
noticed.  It would not surprise me if a lot of people are having a 
problem and don't know it.

And another thing - This machine runs XFCE which by default includes a 
battery monitor in the system tray.  That battery monitor works 
correctly regardless of the status of nut.

Fourth - There is an open bug report at RedHat about this.  The Fedora 
37 package version 2.8.0-5 is supposed to have a fix.  The comments 
report other problems with the package, hence it is not yet in the 
testing repository.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2127269

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Bill Gee

On 12/2/22 06:58, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Roger Price writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>>> And even now, weeks after a Fedora release, that bug is not blowing 
>>> up with everyone, and their uncle, complaining that nut is completely 
>>> non-functional? So, what, there are less than a dozen people out 
>>> there who are using Fedora and a non-APC UPS, for which nut is, 
>>> pretty much, the only option?
>>>
>>> This one's a head-scratcher.
>>
>> I wonder what percentage of Linux users have a UPS?  I suspect the 
>> figure is real low.  Most people trust their public power supply, and 
>> live in an area with little lightning.  Why spend the money?
> 
> I think it's because most people are using laptops rather than desktops. 
> Laptops have their built-in UPS. A spike will probably just fry the wall 
> wart and not damage the laptop, and they'll just replace the wall wart.
> 
> Still, you'd think there'll be more than a dozen people noticing that 
> nut in Fedora hasn't worked for over two months.
> 
> 
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