Hi Reinier,

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Reinier Battenberg wrote:

> Sep 22 10:15:45 physic1 apcupsd[20713]: Initiating system shutdown!
> Sep 22 10:15:45 physic1 shutdown[26424]: shutting down for system halt

By this point it is already too late, an immediate shutdown has started.

> Sep 22 10:20:24 physic1 apcupsd[20713]: Cancelling shutdown

apcupsd tries to cancel the shutdown, but because it was an immediate 
shutdown and not a delayed one, it's too late to cancel. In any case, even 
a delayed shutdown will have a race window if the power comes back once 
the actual shutdown has started, but before the UPS battery runs out.

> So, there *is* something that understands that power is back and the 
> situation has changed. Only the effect is 0. Any clues as to make that 
> work?

The solution is not to cancel it: perhaps tell the machine to reboot 
instead, or perhaps tell the UPS to cycle the power. Perhaps apcupsd 
cannot do this and you need a better UPS daemon such as NUT.

> Lastly, this morning i realised there is 1 strange testresult from 
> yesterday:
> 
> "- Connect the RS1500 to the second power-unit of the server. The led light 
> on 
> the server goes on, but on the server-side the power cable makes a funny 
> sizzling noise."
> 
> The UPS is supposed to be able to handle 850Watt, and the server was 
> doing virtually nothing (it was waiting for me to choose the kernel to 
> boot from), and would maximum load 650W. So, the sizzling would not be 
> caused by a load issue, as chris suggested.

I didn't suggest load, I suggested power factor correction, i.e. how clean 
(sinusoidal) the current drawn by the server is. Older power supplies are 
very dirty, only the best modern ones are clean.

> Do I have a broken UPS or is this not a load issue? If so, what was it? 
> Earthing?

Unlikely, but always wise to check and recheck regularly.

Cheers, Chris.
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