Nut upsuser - Sep 2017 - building on Solus

I am using NUT on Linux Mint with no issues. Installed from PPA.

However I have tried on 3 occasions to build from source for Solus 3 and 
have had no luck.

Is there a possibility of NUT being built into a Flatpak so all 
distributions can use it.
If it was available on Flathub it would be a simple and foolproof way of 
installing it.

Many thanks for a great application.

On Sep 15, 2017, at 9:51 PM, MTS <mts5204 at bigpond.com>
wrote:
> 
> Is there a possibility of NUT being built into a Flatpak so all
distributions can use it.
> If it was available on Flathub it would be a simple and foolproof way of
installing it.
From http://flatpak.org/faq.html :

"Can Flatpak be used on servers too?

"Flatpak is designed to run inside a desktop session and relies on certain
session services, such as a dbus session bus and a systemd --user instance. This
makes Flatpak not a good match for a server."

I am not familiar with Flatpak myself, but given the differences between all of
the packages of NUT for various distros (especially in the way that they shut
down the system and then the UPS), I don't know if it would be possible to
reliably package anything more than the NUT-Monitor GUI for Flatpak.

On Sep 15, 2017, at 11:15 PM, MTS <mts5204 at bigpond.com>
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I thought it might be problematic. I am really frustrated I cannot get it
working on Solus.
> I use Solus way more than Mint these days and it would be nice to have NUT
working.
If you describe the problems you are having when trying to build it, maybe we
can help.

Please use reply-all to keep the list CC'd.

Hi Charles,
Thanks for your help.
Seems to be mostly ok except am getting error access denied. See below.
I see from searching this is a common error but so far I can't find a fix.
This is how I configured things before make and install.

created group nut
nut:x:103:
created system user ups with group nut.
ups:x:123:103::/home/ups:/bin/bash

Create statepath directory.

sudo mkdir -p /var/state/ups
sudo chmod 0770 /var/state/ups
sudo chown root:nut /var/state/ups

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-usb --with-user=ups --with-group=nut 
--with-udev-dir=/etc/udev --with-drivers=blazer_usb

Had to enable both these services. They weren't enabled by default.
sudo systemctl enable nut-server
sudo systemctl enable nut-monitor

$ sudo /usr/sbin/upsmon -DD
Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.7.4
 ?? 0.000000??? fopen /var/run/upsmon.pid: No such file or directory
 ?? 0.000143??? UPS: defender at localhost (master) (power value 1)
 ?? 0.000270??? Using power down flag file /etc/killpower
 ?? 0.000422??? debug level is '2'
 ?? 0.003814??? Trying to connect to UPS [defender at localhost]
 ?? 0.004327??? Login on UPS [defender at localhost] failed - got [ERR 
ACCESS-DENIED]
 ?? 5.004467??? pollups: defender at localhost
 ?? 5.004630??? parse_status: [OL]
 ? 10.004764??? pollups: defender at localhost
 ? 10.004922??? parse_status: [OL]
 ? 15.005048??? pollups: defender at localhost
 ? 15.005208??? parse_status: [OL]
 ? 20.005319??? pollups: defender at localhost
 ? 20.005485??? parse_status: [OL]
 ? 25.005600??? pollups: defender at localhost
 ? 25.005762??? parse_status: [OL]
^C? 25.379863??? Signal 2: exiting
 ? 25.379899??? Dropping connection to UPS [defender at localhost]

upsmon.pid is in /run directory. upsmon is looking for it in /var/run.
/var/state/ups contains blazer_usb-defender, blazer_usb-defender.pid and 
upsd.pid.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


On 17/09/17 02:28, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2017, at 11:15 PM, MTS <mts5204 at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I thought it might be problematic. I am really frustrated I cannot get
it working on Solus.
>> I use Solus way more than Mint these days and it would be nice to have
NUT working.
> If you describe the problems you are having when trying to build it, maybe
we can help.
>
> Please use reply-all to keep the list CC'd.