Resending as original was too big for list acceptance.

Hi Bill,

/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/environ.conf sets the nut-driver service's environment variable, such that it sees a workable NUT_STATEPATH of /var/run/nut when upsdrvctl is run by the service, regardless of what is set in upsd.conf, and explains why the driver worked yesterday but upsd didn't.

Tests which may be interesting:

1. First test:- move nut-driver's environ.conf file to somewhere else temporarily; leave upsd.conf STATEPATH uncommented saying /run/nut; restart [email protected]; and see if it runs. This tests to see if it *needs* the drop-in service file *or* will work with only STATEPATH explicitly set in upsd.conf to /run/nut. If this prevents the driver from working, put the environ.conf file back (but edit it, it should say /run/nut, not /var/run/nut)

2. Second test:- copy the edited /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/environ.conf to /etc/systemd/system/nut-server.service.d/environ.conf. So you should at that point have both locations with a file saying
  [Service]
  Environment=NUT_STATEPATH=/run/nut
Then comment out STATEPATH line (back to default) in upsd.conf and restart nut-server - does it still start, and does it still pop a "Could not find PID file '/var/run/upsd.pid'" message? That tests whether the drop-in file is a better, more consistent fix for now (until the packages are resolved). Calling the nut-server process with that variable set for upsd *even before it reads upsd.conf* may remove the first error 'Could not find PID file '/var/run/upsd.pid''

And definitely document any changes you make to your setup as subsequent package releases will likely change all of this :)

Couple more comments inline below.

Simon


----- Message from Bill Gee <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 16:49:14 -0600
   From: Bill Gee <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT no longer works after 2.7 -> 2.8 upgrade
     To: [email protected]

Checking now - There is a file called /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/environ.conf.  Its contents are

==========================
[root@mythtv [email protected]]# ll
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 Nov 29 18:14 environ.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 Nov 30 18:58 nut-driver-enumerator-generated-checksum.conf

[root@mythtv [email protected]]# cat environ.conf
[Service]
Environment=NUT_STATEPATH=/var/run/nut

==========================

Which explains, I think, much of the problem.  I do not remember putting that file in place.  However, it is dated 29 Nov, just a couple of days ago, so it was probably me who did it.

It's not a default file, so yes it was you - this was a suggestion I made earlier in the week (although I suggested it should say /run/nut not /var/run/nut), and with it there explains why the driver works before you uncommented STATEPATH in upsd.conf.


Should I delete the file?  Or change it to use /run/nut?

See comments on tests at the top of this email.


And that raises another interesting question:  Since /var/run and /run are effectively the same thing, why does /run work and /var/run not work?

What makes you think one works and the other does not? They *are* functionally the same thing (excepting a harmless warning message about using /var).


===============
Bill Gee

On 12/1/22 16:38, Simon Wilson via Nut-upsuser wrote:
Working nut-driver, working nut-server. That's a lot further than you were on Tuesday.

It's a little odd that nut-driver worked without STATEPATH being uncommented in upsd.conf but nut-server needed the change.
@Jim, without digging into source, any reason why that would be the case?
@Bill, you didn't end up doing an 'environ.conf'-style drop-in file at '/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/' did you (as that would explain the difference between the two services)?

You will need to enable nut.target to have things start on boot, and reboot to make sure everything starts OK.

Simon

----- Message from Bill Gee <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 10:43:04 -0600
   From: Bill Gee <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT no longer works after 2.7 -> 2.8 upgrade
     To: [email protected]

My email client (Thunderbird) does not truncate, but it does wrap.  The truncations come from the way systemctl runs its output through a pager. When I copy-paste from the bash session, it truncates at the right edge of the window.   I need to use the --full and --no-pager options to get the full text, which will be wrapped as needed.

Here is the output from upsd -DD:

===================================
[root@mythtv ~]# upsd -DD
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.8.0
  0.000000     fopen /var/run/upsd.pid: No such file or directory
  0.000030     Could not find PID file '/var/run/upsd.pid' to see if previous upsd instance is already running!

  0.000250     [D1] debug level is '2'
  0.000335     listening on ::1 port 3493
  0.000375     listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
  0.001417     /var/run is world readable
  0.001557     Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): No such file or directory
  0.002315     Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file
  0.002337     [D1] mainloop: UPS [cyberpower] is not currently connected
  0.002377     [D1] mainloop: UPS [cyberpower] is now connected as FD -1
  0.002399     [D2] mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
  2.003794     [D2] mainloop: no data available
  2.003842     [D1] mainloop: UPS [cyberpower] is not currently connected
  2.003897     [D1] mainloop: UPS [cyberpower] is now connected as FD -1
  2.003917     [D2] mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
  4.005963     [D2] mainloop: no data available
  4.006009     [D1] mainloop: UPS [cyberpower] is not currently connected
  4.006054     [D1] mainloop: UPS [cyberpower] is now connected as FD -1
  4.006073     [D2] mainloop: polling 2 filedescriptors
  6.008122     [D2] mainloop: no data available
==============================

Just for grins, I edited /etc/ups/upsd.conf to uncomment the STATEPATH line.  I set it to /run/nut.  When I ran upsd -DD again, it was still looking at /var/run.  However!  It successfully connected to the cyberpower device.  Upsc returns good information.

=================================
[root@mythtv ups]# upsd -DD
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.8.0
  0.000000     fopen /var/run/upsd.pid: No such file or directory
  0.000037     Could not find PID file '/var/run/upsd.pid' to see if previous upsd instance is already running!

  0.000271     [D1] debug level is '2'
  0.000357     listening on ::1 port 3493
  0.000395     listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
  0.001550     Connected to UPS [cyberpower]: usbhid-ups-cyberpower
  0.002323     Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file
  0.002347     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  0.002423     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  0.002493     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  0.002570     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  0.002648     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  0.002701     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  2.004311     [D2] mainloop: no data available
  2.004352     [D2] mainloop: polling 3 filedescriptors
  4.006061     [D2] mainloop: no data available

[root@mythtv ups]# systemctl --full --no-pager status nut-server
● nut-server.service - Network UPS Tools - power devices information server
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
    Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-12-01 10:35:01 CST; 18s ago
  Main PID: 3445 (upsd)
     Tasks: 1 (limit: 9482)
    Memory: 732.0K
       CPU: 4ms
    CGroup: /system.slice/nut-server.service
            └─3445 /usr/sbin/upsd -F

Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[3445]: fopen /var/run/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[3445]: Could not find PID file '/var/run/upsd.pid' to see if previous upsd instance is already running! Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[3445]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[3445]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[3445]: listening on ::1 port 3493
Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[3445]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[3445]: Connected to UPS [cyberpower]: usbhid-ups-cyberpower Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[3445]: Connected to UPS [cyberpower]: usbhid-ups-cyberpower Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[3445]: Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file Dec 01 10:35:01 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[3445]: Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file

[root@mythtv ups]# upsc cyberpower@localhost
battery.charge: 100
battery.charge.low: 10
battery.charge.warning: 20
battery.mfr.date: CPS
battery.runtime: 2100
battery.runtime.low: 300
battery.type: PbAcid
battery.voltage: 13.3
battery.voltage.nominal: 12
device.mfr: CPS
device.model: UPS CP1000AVRLCD
device.type: ups
driver.name: usbhid-ups
[-- snip --]

===============
Bill Gee

On 12/1/22 06:41, Simon Wilson via Nut-upsuser wrote:
Hi Bill, well at least you now have a fully operating, starts-on-reboot driver - so that is progress. One thing we need to know which I asked but you've not answered: "Did you need to add the environment drop-in file? At which step did it work?" The answer to that may change next step.

nut-server *should* just work if there is a driver available and running.

OK, run:

 systemctl disable nut-server (stop it trying to run automatically)
 upsd -DD

And then Ctrl-C to stop it once you have got output to screen with startup messages.

Then copy back here the output from upsd -DD, preferably without truncating lines which your mail client seems to do :(

I'm pretty sure that nut-server is using /var/run as its STATEPATH. Can you also include your upsd.conf, minus commented lines.

Simon.

----- Message from Bill Gee <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 06:14:10 -0600
   From: Bill Gee <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT no longer works after 2.7 -> 2.8 upgrade
     To: [email protected]

Hi Simon -

I modified /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client to use /run instead of /var/run.  I checked the startup status of the nut services.

=================
[root@mythtv ~]# systemctl list-unit-files | grep -i nut
nut-driver-enumerator.path  enabled         disabled
nut-driver-enumerator.service  enabled         disabled
[email protected]  indirect        disabled
nut-monitor.service  disabled        disabled
nut-server.service  enabled         disabled
nut-driver.target  disabled        disabled
nut.target  disabled        disabled
==========================

I did a shutdown/reboot on the system.  The usbhid driver loaded without errors and did not complain about /var/run.  /run/nut exists and contains the expected two files.

nut-server also started since it is set to "enabled", but failed to connect to the driver.  It complains about "no such file or directory". What file is it looking for?  I ran journalctl on it but got nothing more than what systemctl status reports.

===========================
[root@mythtv ~]# systemctl status nut-driver@cyberpower
[email protected] - Network UPS Tools - device driver for NUT device 'cyberpower'      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
             └─environ.conf
             /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
             └─nut-driver-enumerator-generated-checksum.conf, nut-driver-enumerator-generated.conf
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-12-01 05:56:04 CST; 9min ago
    Process: 712 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client.conf (code=exited, stat>     Process: 719 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c NUTDEV="`/usr/libexec/nut-driver-enumerator.sh --get-device-for-service cyberpowe>
   Main PID: 791 (usbhid-ups)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9482)
     Memory: 2.9M
        CPU: 113ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/system-nut\x2ddriver.slice/[email protected]
             └─791 /usr/sbin/usbhid-ups -a cyberpower

Dec 01 05:56:04 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[787]: Using subdriver: CyberPower HID 0.6 Dec 01 05:56:04 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[787]: Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.47 (2.8.0) Dec 01 05:56:04 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[787]: USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.43 Dec 01 05:56:04 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[787]: cps_adjust_battery_scale: battery readings will be sca> Dec 01 05:56:04 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[719]: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.8.0
Dec 01 05:56:04 mythtv.billgee.local usbhid-ups[791]: Startup successful

[root@mythtv ~]# systemctl status nut-server
● nut-server.service - Network UPS Tools - power devices information server      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-12-01 05:56:07 CST; 9min ago
   Main PID: 809 (upsd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9482)
     Memory: 1000.0K
        CPU: 15ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/nut-server.service
             └─809 /usr/sbin/upsd -F

Dec 01 05:56:08 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[809]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Dec 01 05:56:08 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[809]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Dec 01 05:56:08 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[809]: /var/run is world readable Dec 01 05:56:08 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[809]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): No suc> Dec 01 05:56:08 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[809]: /var/run is world readable Dec 01 05:56:08 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[809]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): No such file> Dec 01 05:56:10 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[809]: Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file Dec 01 05:56:10 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[809]: Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file Dec 01 06:01:08 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[809]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): No suc> Dec 01 06:01:08 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[809]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): No such file>
================================

===============
Bill Gee

On 11/30/22 21:14, Simon Wilson via Nut-upsuser wrote:
----- Message from Bill Gee <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:26:46 -0600
   From: Bill Gee <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT no longer works after 2.7 -> 2.8 upgrade
     To: [email protected]

Hi Simon -

I ran through the steps you gave below.  To quote Gilbert&Sullivan ... "Modified Rapture!"  I suppose I should try a reboot to make sure everything starts properly.

Not yet with the reboot. Baby steps... :) you have a driver running from the service file! Celebrations are in order.

Did you need to add the environment drop-in file? At which step did it work?

But first, there is a problem with upsc. Also nut-server complains that it cannot connect to the device.

Ok, that's next... your comments are wrong way around :) nut-server not starting is why upsc doesn't give you anything.

/run/nut exists and contains two files.

Here are some outputs:

======================================
[root@mythtv ~]# journalctl -u [email protected] -f
Nov 30 19:00:20 mythtv.billgee.local systemd[1]: Starting [email protected] - Network UPS Tools - device driver for NUT device 'cyberpower'... Nov 30 19:00:20 mythtv.billgee.local systemd-tmpfiles[28689]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client.conf:2: Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/nut → /run/nut; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.

That line is the "noise" error I mentioned. Edit /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client.conf to read /run/nut, not /var/run/nut

Nov 30 19:00:20 mythtv.billgee.local systemd-tmpfiles[28689]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client.conf:3: Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/nut → /run/nut; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly.

Ditto, although you probably don't need line 3 in the file anyway.

Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[28719]: Using subdriver: CyberPower HID 0.6 Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[28719]: Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.47 (2.8.0) Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[28719]: USB communication driver (libusb 1.0) 0.43 Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[28719]: cps_adjust_battery_scale: battery readings will be scaled by 2/3 Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local usbhid-ups[28769]: Startup successful Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local nut-driver@cyberpower[28691]: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.8.0 Nov 30 19:00:21 mythtv.billgee.local systemd[1]: Started [email protected] - Network UPS Tools - device driver for NUT device 'cyberpower'.

[root@mythtv ups]# ll /run/nut
total 4
srw-rw---- 1 nut nut 0 Nov 30 19:00 usbhid-ups-cyberpower
-rw-r--r-- 1 nut nut 6 Nov 30 19:00 usbhid-ups-cyberpower.pid

[root@mythtv ups]# systemctl --no-pager --full status nut-server
● nut-server.service - Network UPS Tools - power devices information server      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service; enabled; preset: disabled)      Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-11-30 19:06:53 CST; 13min ago
   Main PID: 28918 (upsd)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9482)
     Memory: 736.0K
        CPU: 20ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/nut-server.service
             └─28918 /usr/sbin/upsd -F

Nov 30 19:06:53 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[28918]: /var/run is world readable Nov 30 19:06:53 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[28918]: /var/run is world readable Nov 30 19:06:53 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[28918]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): Connection refused Nov 30 19:06:53 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[28918]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): Connection refused Nov 30 19:06:53 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[28918]: Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file Nov 30 19:06:53 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[28918]: Running as foreground process, not saving a PID file Nov 30 19:11:53 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[28918]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): Connection refused Nov 30 19:11:53 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[28918]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): Connection refused Nov 30 19:16:53 mythtv.billgee.local nut-server[28918]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): Connection refused Nov 30 19:16:53 mythtv.billgee.local upsd[28918]: Can't connect to UPS [cyberpower] (usbhid-ups-cyberpower): Connection refused

[root@mythtv ups]# ps ax | grep ups
    768 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
    773 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
  28769 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/usbhid-ups -a cyberpower
  28918 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/upsd -F
  28929 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto ups

[root@mythtv ups]# upsc cyberpower@localhost
Error: Driver not connected

upsc won't work without nut-server running, so this is expected based on the above failure to start nut-server.

 

So... next.

Fix nut-client.conf contents, and make sure that you can start / restart the driver as needed with no errors. Set [email protected] to enabled for autostart, so with ONLY the enumerator services and [email protected] enabled, you should see something like the following for 'systemctl list-unit-files | grep -i nut':

[root@emp80 ups]# systemctl list-unit-files | grep -i nut
nut-driver-enumerator.path                                             enabled nut-driver-enumerator.service                                          enabled [email protected]                                                    indirect nut-monitor.service                                                    disabled nut-server.service                                                     disabled nut-driver.target                                                      disabled nut.target                                                             disabled

Stop any running nut processes, and reboot. On reboot the only thing that should autostart is [email protected] (from the 'indirect' call via [email protected]). upsc will still not work.

Monitor the driver for a while 'journalctl -u [email protected] -f' and make sure it is stable and stays connected - google searches show some flakiness with some cyberpower UPSs.

Once you are confident that the driver is reliable, starting OK and staying up then move on to nut-server.

I'll check in this evening and we can do some more digging on that.

Simon

===============
Bill Gee

On 11/30/22 07:21, Simon Wilson via Nut-upsuser wrote:
Comments inline.

----- Message from Bill Gee <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:04:14 -0600
   From: Bill Gee <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] NUT no longer works after 2.7 -> 2.8 upgrade
     To: [email protected]

Hi Simon --

Yes, I am pretty sure this is the RedHat packaging problem.  I sure hope they get it squared away.  I have only one system using nut and that is because all my other systems have APC battery backup and run apcupsd. Apcupsd may be old, grey and unmaintained, but it Just Works.

You mention that the STATEPATH line in upsd.conf will override other settings.  It does not appear to be the case for me.  The only way I could get the driver to run was by setting NUT_STATEPATH on the command line.  Perhaps that is an issue with the driver and not nut-server?

In answer to your questions:

1) /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] exists.  I have made no changes to it so far.  Here are the contents, unfortunately line-wrapped by Thunderbird.

================================
[root@mythtv system]# grep -v '^#' [email protected]
[Unit]
Description=Network UPS Tools - device driver for %I
After=local-fs.target

PartOf=nut-driver.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/ups/nut.conf
SyslogIdentifier=%N
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client.conf ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'NUTDEV="`/usr/libexec/nut-driver-enumerator.sh --get-device-for-service %i`" && [ -n "$NUTDEV" ] || { echo "FATAL: Could not find a NUT device section for service unit %i" >&2 ; exit 1 ; } ; /usr/sbin/upsdrvctl start "$NUTDEV"' ExecStop=/bin/sh -c 'NUTDEV="`/usr/libexec/nut-driver-enumerator.sh --get-device-for-service %i`" && [ -n "$NUTDEV" ] || { echo "FATAL: Could not find a NUT device section for service unit %i" >&2 ; exit 1 ; } ; /usr/sbin/upsdrvctl stop "$NUTDEV"'
StartLimitInterval=0
Restart=always
RestartSec=15s
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=nut-driver.target
===================================

OK, so that's the same as mine. It's ExecStartPre task is to create the pid folder from your answer to the third (unasked) question :) which is that outlined in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-client.conf

You have /var/run/nut 0770 root nut - so systemd should ensure that exists.

By the way, having it with "/var/run/nut" will trigger a 'noise' error about the "/var" path - change it to just be /run/nut in nut-client.conf.

As a test, what happens if you:

- make sure nut.conf has MODE=standalone
- make sure ALL nut services are stopped, i.e. 'ps -ax | grep ups' should give you only the grep process as an answer
- delete /run/nut folder (it will get re-created automatically)
- take /etc/ups/upsd.conf back to have commented out STATEPATH as distributed in the package - run "systemctl enable nut-driver-enumerator.path nut-driver-enumerator.service --now" - this will enable and start the services that monitor ups.conf for changes and then write the actual driver service file; the second one also runs early in boot and ensures that the service file exists and is correct. - run 'nut-scanner -U' and copy its output into ups.conf instead of your current definition with name heading [cyberpower], save and exit: this will trigger the above enumerators to run and re-do the [email protected] file

Based on an out of the box install, you have at this point done enough that the driver should run (*should*!!!!)

- run "journalctl -u [email protected] -f" in one terminal while you run "systemctl start [email protected]" in another - what does journalctl output?

Assuming it does not start (based on what you have said below), show the messages.

If it still does not start as configured above, but you \can/ run /usr/sbin/usbhid-ups with your environment variables specified like you had done before, and it *does* run, then do the following steps to create a systemd drop-in file for the variable, but make the steps use /run/nut instead of /var/run/nut:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2127269#c8  (comment 8, formatted for ease of reading). You want to get back to the RH/Fedora default of using /run/nut, not /var/state/ups

  1. uncomment the "STATEPATH /var/run/nut" as already mentioned
  2. create: /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/environ.conf
   with these two lines:

    [Service]
    Environment=NUT_STATEPATH=/var/run/nut

  3. and finally do: systemctl daemon-reload

...then try and run systemctl start [email protected] again, while monitoring journalctl.

If that does not work - then I'm out of ideas at this point lol... :-D

'set' has nothing BTW on my working system related to nut.

2) In /etc/ups/upsd.conf, the original STATEPATH line is

STATEPATH /var/run/nut

Right now the original line is commented and I added another line to point at /var/state/ups.

3) You only asked two questions, but I sense a third might be important.  Originally the system had /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nut-common.conf.  I have modified that file and no longer have the original.  I copied that file to nut-client.conf, and both have the same contents:

=======================
# State file (e.g. upsd to driver) and pidfile location for NUT:
D /var/run/nut 0770 root nut - -
X /var/run/nut
========================

4) And one more unasked question!  :-)  When I look at the environment variables on the system, I see this:

========================
[root@mythtv tmpfiles.d]# set | grep -i nut
_=/etc/ups/nut.conf
========================


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Simon Wilson
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