Hello, i'm trying to use nut with ippon back power pro 700 on FreeBSD 9.1-R with USB driver blazer_usb, and connection with UPS is unstable.
I'm starting it: office@root # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut start Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.6.5 addchar: discarding invalid character (0xe2)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x80)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0xb3)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x0a)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x0a)! Network UPS Tools - Megatec/Q1 protocol USB driver 0.09 (2.6.5) addchar: discarding invalid character (0xe2)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x80)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0xb3)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x0a)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x0a)! Supported UPS detected with megatec protocol Vendor information unavailable No values provided for battery high/low voltages in ups.conf Using 'guestimation' (low: 10.400000, high: 13.000000)! Battery runtime will not be calculated (runtimecal not set) Starting nut. Network UPS Tools upsd 2.6.5 fopen /var/db/nut/upsd.pid: No such file or directory /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.conf is world readable listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 addchar: discarding invalid character (0xe2)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x80)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0xb3)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x0a)! addchar: discarding invalid character (0x0a)! Connected to UPS [ippon]: blazer_usb-ippon /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.users is world readable # In /var/log/messages i see: Apr 28 21:56:50 office upsd[90938]: mainloop: Interrupted system call Apr 28 21:56:51 office upsd[91018]: /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.conf is world readable Apr 28 21:56:51 office upsd[91018]: /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.users is world readable then i start upsmon: office@root # upsmon -D Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.6.5 kill: No such process 0.000000 UPS: ippon@localhost (master) (power value 1) 0.000154 Using power down flag file /etc/killpower 0.000488 debug level is '1' 0.002115 Trying to connect to UPS [ippon@localhost] 0.002953 Logged into UPS ippon@localhost But then after a while blazer_usb process is exiting with something like this message: Apr 28 22:00:12 office blazer_usb[91017]: Permissions problem: Input/output error Apr 28 22:00:12 office upsd[91019]: Can't connect to UPS [ippon] (blazer_usb-ippon): No such file or directory before "Permission problem" blazer_usb print out error "send: Unknown error". it may work 1 hour or 5 minutes, but balzer_usb is failing after a while. nut installed from fresh ports. I can't move to blazer_ser - computer have no COM port. What can be done in this situation? -- your sweet isn't ready yet _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser