On Nov 11, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Stuart Gathman wrote: > > I've tried several recipes found with google, but hal likes to grab the > USB ups before nut can get it. > There are a number of klugey workarounds, like turn off port power until > ready to start nut (so that hal doesn't see the UPS). Or > killall hal-addon-hid-ups before starting nut.
Minor nit, but for anyone else using an exact match search interface (like packages.ubuntu.com), note that there is a "d" after "hal": hald-addon-hid-ups > Here is one of recipes I googled: > https://github.com/sdgathman/trippfix/blob/master/halpolicy.fdi What if you convert the USB ID numbers to decimal? <match key="@info.parent:usb.vendor_id" int="2748"> <match key="@info.parent:usb.product_id" int="12310"> Ref: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1253856 > It doesn't work - hal still loads the addon - preventing nut upsdrvctl > from succeeding. I'm thinking the killall is the least dirty > workaround, but what is the right way to tell hal not to mess with the > UPS (or any UPS for that matter). This sounds a lot like what this file was designed to do: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/blob/master/scripts/upower/95-upower-hid.rules (It is auto-generated from all of the NUT drivers at release time.) Is this CentOS? Which version? _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
