Nut upsuser - Nov 2007 - debian etch and the Tripplite SU1000RTXL2U

Hi Al,

I'm currently not much available, so I've fwded your mail to the nut
list...
You might get more reactivity this way...

2007/11/20, Al Grimstad <al at grimstad.mv.com>:
> Hi. I don't have the energy or time to subscribe to one of the nut
> mailing lists, but this brief FYI may be useful.
>
> I believe there has been a regression with respect to nut and the
> Tripplite SU1000RTXL2U. I can't get recent versions of nut to work with
> this UPS, either the debian etch package--the host is running debian
> etch--or a locally compiled version of the latest stable version of nut
> (2.2.0).
>
> I have used this UPS since late in 2003 with nut version 1.4.1, locally
> built on a slackware system. When I compiled a local version of 1.4.3 on
> my new debian etch system, I was able to get nut to work with the ups,
> so it looks like a regression to me.
>
> The problem is in the tripplitesu driver. Somewhere after 1.4.3 it
> becomes apparently incapable of recognizing a Tripplite SU1000RTXL2U.
>
> By the way, I don't think I made an error in the permissions or
> configuration files in the debian etch standard nut package. I had an
> APC ups working happily with the system before I installed it and upon
> installation, I made one change to ups.conf, the driver changing from
> apcsmart to tripplitesu. -- al
>
>
>
Arnaud
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>> I believe there has been a regression with respect to nut and the
>> Tripplite SU1000RTXL2U. I can't get recent versions of nut to work
with
>> this UPS, either the debian etch package--the host is running debian
>> etch--or a locally compiled version of the latest stable version of nut
>> (2.2.0).
>>
>> I have used this UPS since late in 2003 with nut version 1.4.1, locally
>> built on a slackware system. When I compiled a local version of 1.4.3
on
>> my new debian etch system, I was able to get nut to work with the ups,
>> so it looks like a regression to me.
>>
>> The problem is in the tripplitesu driver. Somewhere after 1.4.3 it
>> becomes apparently incapable of recognizing a Tripplite SU1000RTXL2U.
Thanks for reporting this. Could you post the output of

    <path>/tripplitesu -DDDDD -a <upsname>

both for nut-1.4.3 (working) and nut-2.2.0 (apparently not working)?
Without more information about what is actually going on, the chances of
fixing this are pretty remote.

Best regards, Arjen
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