Hi all, I have a MGE Ellipse 600 UPS connected to com1 on a PC running FreeBSD 4.11 with nut-2.0.2_1 installed. I have everything working and operational. BUT. on rare occasions I reboot my machine and when it comes up I get the following error: Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.2 Network UPS Tools - MGE UPS SYSTEMS/SHUT driver 0.64 (2.0.2) No communication with UPS Driver failed to start (exit status=1) If I keep retrying using '/usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start ' I keep getting the same error. What I have done in the past is to shutdown the machine and unplug all the cables and turn the UPS off. I then wait a period of time and plug everything back in and power back on. This randomly works and I am able to get a connection back sometimes. Now, I dont know if this is a nut problem not initializing corectly or its a UPS problem where it locks up and doesnt want to talk. Has anyone else seen the problem and what was the solution. -- Daryl Sayers Direct: +612 95525510 Corinthian Engineering Office: +612 95525500 Suite 54, Jones Bay Wharf Fax: +612 95525549 26-32 Pirrama Rd email: daryl@ci.com.au Pyrmont NSW 2009 Australia www: http://www.ci.com.au
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:14:57PM +1000, Daryl K Sayers wrote:> > Network UPS Tools - MGE UPS SYSTEMS/SHUT driver 0.64 (2.0.2) > No communication with UPS > Driver failed to start (exit status=1) > > If I keep retrying using '/usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start ' > I keep getting the same error. What I have done in the past is to > shutdown the machine and unplug all the cables and turn the UPS off. I > then wait a period of time and plug everything back in and power back on. > This randomly works and I am able to get a connection back sometimes. >This is the only way to reset the UPS: shutdown the load, shutdown the UPS, unplug the UPS, wait a few seconds, plug it back and turn it on.> Now, I dont know if this is a nut problem not initializing corectly or > its a UPS problem where it locks up and doesnt want to talk. Has anyone > else seen the problem and what was the solution. >Did you try to play with the "notification" parameter ? here is the ups.conf file I use on an MGE Ellipse 800 S: [ellipse] driver = mge-shut port = /dev/ttyS0 ondelay = 6 offdelay = 50 lowbatt = 15 notification = 3 Philippe
Hi Daryl, 2006/5/31, Daryl K Sayers <daryl@ci.com.au>:> > Hi all, > I have a MGE Ellipse 600 UPS connected to com1 on a PC running FreeBSD > 4.11 with nut-2.0.2_1 installed. I have everything working and operational. > BUT. > on rare occasions I reboot my machine and when it comes up I get the > following error: > > Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.0.2 > Network UPS Tools - MGE UPS SYSTEMS/SHUT driver 0.64 (2.0.2) > No communication with UPS > Driver failed to start (exit status=1) > > If I keep retrying using '/usr/local/libexec/nut/upsdrvctl start ' > I keep getting the same error. What I have done in the past is to > shutdown the machine and unplug all the cables and turn the UPS off. I > then wait a period of time and plug everything back in and power back on. > This randomly works and I am able to get a connection back sometimes. > > Now, I dont know if this is a nut problem not initializing corectly or > its a UPS problem where it locks up and doesnt want to talk. Has anyone > else seen the problem and what was the solution.are the device rights setting already applied at nut startup time? a good test is to use the root user (ie in your nut startup script, set "-u root" for upsdrvctl, upsd and upsmon. If that work, this is a privilege problem. Otherwise, try some manual driver launch, in debug mode (-DDDDD) and send your test result back. As I've no bsd underhand yet, I can't reproduce the problem, but I don't face it on linux. Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert - MGE UPS SYSTEMS - R&D Dpt Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ OpenSource Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/