Nut upsuser - Dec 2016 - unclear about expected shutdown behavior

Dear all,

first post here and wanted to start by thanking everybody who made this
possible.

I've been reading the docs and setting up NUT from packages on ubuntu
xenial. I have nut[-client,-server] installed, version 2.7.2-4ubuntu1. My
UPS is an Eaton 5S 1500, which I picked from the list of supported devices.

I've got it working and I can correctly query/monitor the UPS via USB etc.
Following the docs I attempted to test a shutdown process (upsmon -c fsd)
and this is where my question lies: from reading the docs it seems the UPS
should power off, is that the case? The box correctly shuts down, but the
UPS does not and, maybe as a consequence, the box never came back on its
own (I waited a few minutes).

Can anybody shed some light on what I should see as I force the shutdown
sequence? Do you need me to provide more data?

thanks all in advance,

Spike
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2016, Spike wrote:
> ... from reading the docs it seems the UPS should power off, is that the 
> case?
Yes, The UPS should be sent a "delayed shutdown" command, upsdrvctl 
shutdown, to tell it to shut down _after_ the box.  The amount of the 
delay can be set in ups.conf.  The UPS delayed shutdown turns off the 
output sockets on the UPS.  On some UPS's this gives an audible clunk.
> The box correctly shuts down, but the UPS does not and, maybe as a 
> consequence, the box never came back on its own (I waited a few 
> minutes).
It looks as if the command upsdrvctl shutdown is not being executed. Does 
the Ubuntu distribution of NUT include a script to do this?

Roger

> On Dec 24, 2016, at 3:14 AM, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org>
wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016, Spike wrote:
> 
>> ... from reading the docs it seems the UPS should power off, is that
the case?
> 
> Yes, The UPS should be sent a "delayed shutdown" command,
upsdrvctl shutdown, to tell it to shut down _after_ the box.  The amount of the
delay can be set in ups.conf.  The UPS delayed shutdown turns off the output
sockets on the UPS.  On some UPS's this gives an audible clunk.
> 
>> The box correctly shuts down, but the UPS does not and, maybe as a
consequence, the box never came back on its own (I waited a few minutes).
> 
> It looks as if the command upsdrvctl shutdown is not being executed. Does
the Ubuntu distribution of NUT include a script to do this?
Roger,

Ubuntu 16.04 ships the SysV init scripts for NUT that worked with previous
Ubuntu distributions, but it does not appear that the "powerdown"
target gets invoked anymore after the switch to systemd.

Some relevant bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/1512603

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/1603609 (includes workaround)

Spike,

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