Nut upsuser - Aug 2010 - APC Smart-UPS X 1500 Restart Issue.

APC Smart-UPS X 1500 Restart Issue.

 

Hi All, 

I have installed nut-2.4.3. I have manually modified the files apc-hid.c
and udev-rules to support 5G APC UPS. I took sample code from the 2.5
development tree.

 

Shutdown process is working very well -- upsmon creates the file
/etc/killpower - shutdown script checks for the file and issues
/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown - UPS cuts the power off. All is well.

 

I am facing an issue when power is reapplied to the UPS. Following is
the behavior I see:

1. Power comes back to the outlet.

2. System powers up. 

3. When system reaches "Starting udev", UPS power cycles again.

Above cycle repeats forever. 

 

If I cut the power to UPS for ~20 mins and then re-apply power to UPS,
system comes back fine.

 

I was searching through the mail-list and I see some other people are
experiencing similar issue:
Link:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2010-July/006118.ht
ml

 

I was wondering if there is a resolution for this issue.

 

My environment:
[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# uname -a

Linux DVXSAJ02 2.6.20.21-133.xssmp #1 SMP Sat Aug 14 10:13:27 EDT 2010
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# cat /etc/redhat-release

CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# upsc scups

battery.charge: 89

battery.charge.low: 10

battery.charge.warning: 50

battery.runtime: 1673

battery.runtime.low: 376

battery.type: PbAc

battery.voltage: 54.2

battery.voltage.nominal: 48.0

device.mfr: American Power Conversion

device.model: Smart-UPS X 1500

device.serial: AS0946124031

device.type: ups

driver.flag.pollonly: enabled

driver.name: usbhid-ups

driver.parameter.offdelay: 20

driver.parameter.ondelay: 30

driver.parameter.pollfreq: 15

driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2

driver.parameter.port: auto

driver.version: 2.4.3

driver.version.data: APC HID 0.95

driver.version.internal: 0.34

ups.beeper.status: enabled

ups.delay.shutdown: 20

ups.firmware: COM 02.3 / UPS 02.2

ups.mfr: American Power Conversion

ups.mfr.date: 2009/12/19

ups.model: Smart-UPS X 1500

ups.productid: 0003

ups.serial: AS0946124031

ups.status: OL CHRG

ups.timer.reboot: -1

ups.timer.shutdown: -1

ups.vendorid: 051d

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]#

 

 [root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# cat /etc/sysconfig/ups

# If the UPS is locally attached set it to "yes"

SERVER=yes

# Any options to pass to upsd

UPSD_OPTIONS
# Added MODEL=upsdrvctl so that /etc/init.d/halt will issue
"/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown"

MODEL=upsdrvctl

# This *must* be the same as in /etc/ups/upsmon.conf

POWERDOWNFLAG=/etc/killpower

#

# [End]

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# cat /etc/ups/ups.conf

..

[scups]

        driver = usbhid-ups

        port = auto

        desc = "UPS on USB"

        pollonly

        offdelay=20

        ondelay=30

        pollfreq=15

Any suggestion is welcome.

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I have applied a workaround for this issue. I have updated the
/etc/init.d/halt to call the following script instead of
'/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown'.

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 ~]# cat /opt/bin/check_ups_status.sh

#!/bin/sh

 

# This script is called from /etc/init.d/halt.

 

# Purpose:

#   If the file /etc/killpower is present, check for UPS status.

#   If AC is present, reboot system.

#   If UPS is on battery, sleep and recheck after 30 seconds.

 

# If UPS runs out of battery, system will stop and get powered-on when
AC is back. Check BIOS for this setting.

 

# Notes: File system is mounted read-only when this script is called.

 

#        $ups_out will contain the following if AC is Present:

#        0.087258 Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ACPresent, Type:
Input, ReportID: 0x07, Offset: 2, Size: 1, Value: 1.000000

 

#        $ups_out will contain the following if AC is Not Present:

#        0.087237 Path: UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ACPresent, Type:
Input, ReportID: 0x07, Offset: 2, Size: 1, Value: 0.000000

 

[ ! -f /etc/killpower ] && exit 0

 

first_time=1

 

while [ 1 ]

do

    ( sleep 5; /usr/bin/killall usbhid-ups 2> /dev/null ) &

 

     ups_out=`/sbin/usbhid-ups -D -a scups 2>&1 | grep
UPS.PowerSummary.PresentStatus.ACPresent | grep Input`

 

     ac_present=`echo $ups_out | sed 's/.*\<Value\>:
\([10]*\).*/\1/'`

 

     if [ $ac_present = "1" ]; then

          echo

          echo "UPS - AC is present"

          echo "Rebooting system..."

          /sbin/reboot

          exit 0

     else

          if [ $first_time = "1" ]; then

               echo -n "UPS - On Battery, sleeping..."

               first_time=0

          else

               echo -n "."

          fi

 

     fi

 

   sleep 30

done

[root at DVXSAJ02 ~]#

 

This sleeps until AC power returns. When battery runs out, system stop
and reboots when power is back.

 

Any comments?

 

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From: nut-upsuser-bounces+ajain=dataram.com at lists.alioth.debian.org
[mailto:nut-upsuser-bounces+ajain=dataram.com at lists.alioth.debian.org]
On Behalf Of Jain, Arvind
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:57 AM
To: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: [Nut-upsuser] APC Smart-UPS X 1500 Restart Issue.

 

APC Smart-UPS X 1500 Restart Issue.

 

Hi All, 

I have installed nut-2.4.3. I have manually modified the files apc-hid.c
and udev-rules to support 5G APC UPS. I took sample code from the 2.5
development tree.

 

Shutdown process is working very well -- upsmon creates the file
/etc/killpower - shutdown script checks for the file and issues
/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown - UPS cuts the power off. All is well.

 

I am facing an issue when power is reapplied to the UPS. Following is
the behavior I see:

1. Power comes back to the outlet.

2. System powers up. 

3. When system reaches "Starting udev", UPS power cycles again.

Above cycle repeats forever. 

 

If I cut the power to UPS for ~20 mins and then re-apply power to UPS,
system comes back fine.

 

I was searching through the mail-list and I see some other people are
experiencing similar issue:
Link:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2010-July/006118.ht
ml

 

I was wondering if there is a resolution for this issue.

 

My environment:
[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# uname -a

Linux DVXSAJ02 2.6.20.21-133.xssmp #1 SMP Sat Aug 14 10:13:27 EDT 2010
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# cat /etc/redhat-release

CentOS release 5.4 (Final)

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# upsc scups

battery.charge: 89

battery.charge.low: 10

battery.charge.warning: 50

battery.runtime: 1673

battery.runtime.low: 376

battery.type: PbAc

battery.voltage: 54.2

battery.voltage.nominal: 48.0

device.mfr: American Power Conversion

device.model: Smart-UPS X 1500

device.serial: AS0946124031

device.type: ups

driver.flag.pollonly: enabled

driver.name: usbhid-ups

driver.parameter.offdelay: 20

driver.parameter.ondelay: 30

driver.parameter.pollfreq: 15

driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2

driver.parameter.port: auto

driver.version: 2.4.3

driver.version.data: APC HID 0.95

driver.version.internal: 0.34

ups.beeper.status: enabled

ups.delay.shutdown: 20

ups.firmware: COM 02.3 / UPS 02.2

ups.mfr: American Power Conversion

ups.mfr.date: 2009/12/19

ups.model: Smart-UPS X 1500

ups.productid: 0003

ups.serial: AS0946124031

ups.status: OL CHRG

ups.timer.reboot: -1

ups.timer.shutdown: -1

ups.vendorid: 051d

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]#

 

 [root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# cat /etc/sysconfig/ups

# If the UPS is locally attached set it to "yes"

SERVER=yes

# Any options to pass to upsd

UPSD_OPTIONS
# Added MODEL=upsdrvctl so that /etc/init.d/halt will issue
"/sbin/upsdrvctl shutdown"

MODEL=upsdrvctl

# This *must* be the same as in /etc/ups/upsmon.conf

POWERDOWNFLAG=/etc/killpower

#

# [End]

 

[root at DVXSAJ02 etc]# cat /etc/ups/ups.conf

..

[scups]

        driver = usbhid-ups

        port = auto

        desc = "UPS on USB"

        pollonly

        offdelay=20

        ondelay=30

        pollfreq=15

Any suggestion is welcome.

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Citeren "Jain, Arvind" <AJain op dataram.com>:
> This sleeps until AC power returns. When battery runs out, system stop
> and reboots when power is back.
First of all, it is a terribly bad idea to run a driver in debug mode  
on a production system. It should be used for testing purposes only.

The problem is caused by the driver failing to detect a working  
'load.on.delay' command for the UPS, which is needed to create the  
two-step 'shutdown.return' command. Either your UPS doesn't have
one,
or it is put in a vendor specific HID path. Because of this, the  
driver will fallback to the 'shutdown.reboot' command, which seems to  
be horribly broken for your UPS.

It would be helpful if you could post the output of

  /sbin/usbhid-ups -DD -a scups 2>&1

here, so that we can see if there might be another HID path that could  
be used.

Chances are, that we just need to call 'load.off.delay' and that the  
device will return power all by itself. This violates the HID Power  
Device Specification, but since the 'shutdown.reboot' also is  
non-compliant, I'm not too surprised.

Best regards, Arjen
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