Arnaud, Thanks for getting back on this one quickly. Much appreciated.
> just a question: have plugged your UPS USB cord before or after having > installed nut? > the udev script is there to do the job, but I've recently made a > change to the package to fire up the udev restart upon install. > Otherwise, if the UPS USB cord was already plugged in, the device is > not reachable for the nut user... QED To be honest I cannot remember. I suspect I plugged all the hardware in, and then found I didn't have nut installed, so installed it. In the past I had an APC Smart UPS and was using apcupsd (on a serial cable). There has been one Ubuntu upgrade (Edgy -> Feisty) in between my installing the hardware and nut, and actually getting round to seeing how to get nut working. I have yet to understand when the /dev/bus/XXX/YYY changes -- the XXX is always the same but the YYY changes on each removal and reinsert of the cable (to be expected) but also when I stop and restart upsd. After /etc/init.d/nut stop, I sometimes have to go in and check the YYY and if it has changed set the group permission. Once done /etc/init.d/nut start appears to do all the right things, and upsc gives me a status report. Now all I have to do is find out how to put all the actual actions in place. Actually though my biggest problem is that I am getting a `data stale' report every 2-3s: May 31 07:07:37 balin upsd[27902]: Data for UPS [balin] is stale - check driver May 31 07:07:37 balin upsd[27902]: UPS [balin] data is no longer stale May 31 07:07:39 balin upsd[27902]: Data for UPS [balin] is stale - check driver May 31 07:07:39 balin upsd[27902]: UPS [balin] data is no longer stale May 31 07:07:41 balin upsd[27902]: Data for UPS [balin] is stale - check driver May 31 07:07:41 balin upsd[27902]: UPS [balin] data is no longer stale May 31 07:07:44 balin upsd[27902]: Data for UPS [balin] is stale - check driver May 31 07:07:44 balin upsd[27902]: UPS [balin] data is no longer stale May 31 07:07:46 balin upsd[27902]: Data for UPS [balin] is stale - check driver May 31 07:07:46 balin upsd[27902]: UPS [balin] data is no longer stale May 31 07:07:48 balin upsd[27902]: Data for UPS [balin] is stale - check driver May 31 07:07:48 balin upsd[27902]: UPS [balin] data is no longer stale > > This may be just that the Nut documentation isn't good enough, but I > > thought I would report this as it is definitely not the case that Ubuntu > > "just works". > > side notes: > - yeah, nut doc is a mess. I've tried several time to launch a project > to make a good docbook doc, but each time, the doc writers have > silently gone... Do people still use Docbook/XML for authoring? I thought that had died. > - the HAL support is also coming with 2.2.0 (for USB only). This means > that having the package (nut-hal-drivers) installed (and I'll lobby > for an inclusion in the base system), you don't have to configure nor > do anything apart plugging your UPS USB cord once. Then, HAL and > Gnome-Power-manager fires up and do the job... I have feisty packages > underhand if you're interested in (and I'm interested in feedback ;-)) I am prone to working close to the bleeding edge, but I cannot get involved in experiments that involve actual downtime -- I have deadlines to get books to publishers! I have a standard Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn installation, and am happy to try running software (as long as it won't damage the UPS or the machine :-) and report back observations. -- Russel. ==================================================== Dr Russel Winder +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Incorrect group for USB device in NUT https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117519 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
