Re: [Nut-upsuser] Nut fsd command ignored: bcmxcp_usb driver, Powerware 5105 UPS

2007-07-25 Thread Gary Redden
I had a similar problem with Ubuntu 6.10. There was a problem during system shutdown and the whole script was not executed. I went back to Ubuntu 6.6 and the problem went away. Check your syslog for a problem with one of the nut programs shutting down. It was happening on any shutdown not jus

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-23 Thread Gary Redden
file before I shutdown. Anyone know what might cause this problem? I also am having a problem getting the computer to restart when power is restored. The computer restarts if I turn the ups off and wait a while then turn the ups back on. Gary Redden wrote: I think I still have a problem with the

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-21 Thread Gary Redden
As for SMP, I don't have a way to test this here, but if you boot with an i386 kernel, it should disable SMP. On 2/19/07, Gary Redden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not have enough knowledge of Linux to answer those questions. I am running Ubuntu desktop the GUI version so I must be run

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-19 Thread Gary Redden
to be pointed in the right direction. I have another project that needs most my attention for the next week(spec. for a fire truck for my volunteer fire department) but will work on this in my spare time. Charles Lepple wrote: On 2/19/07, Gary Redden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-19 Thread Gary Redden
which will drop you to a shell at the right moment in the shutdown sequence. You can then experiment and see what you need to call to shutdown the system. -- Peter Gary Redden wrote: I have attached a section of my syslog. It seems to say that newhidups had a problem on the shutdown part of a

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-18 Thread Gary Redden
I have attached a section of my syslog. It seems to say that newhidups had a problem on the shutdown part of a restart. But before that upsd is still running after newhidups has exited. This might be causing the paging error. My script tries to shut down upsd before it runs upsdrvctl stop. Am I

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-08 Thread Gary Redden
ff the UPS (which turns off your computer). The reason it's not working is probably that you forgot a "/" in front of /usr/local/ups/etc/upsmon.conf. You should also make sure that is the correct location of your upsmon.conf. -- Peter Gary Redden wrote: I am still not

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-07 Thread Gary Redden
I am still not able to get the UPS to shutdown. Here is a list of rc0.d and the file I created to shutdown the UPS after umountroot mounts the filesystem read-only and before halt (halt seems to be a no op here. No code under the start case). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /etc/rc0.d [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-06 Thread Gary Redden
, item 11 "Edit your shutdown scripts: add upsdrvctl shutdown". -- Peter Gary Redden wrote: Nut will monitor the ups and shutdown Linux when the ups goes to low battery as it should. But the UPS is not shut down so the system will restart when the power is restored. If I switch the UPS o

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-06 Thread Gary Redden
I am using nut 2.0.5 driver newhidups Doug Reynolds wrote: Gary Redden wrote: Nut will monitor the ups and shutdown Linux when the ups goes to low battery as it should. But the UPS is not shut down so the system will restart when the power is restored. If I switch the UPS off , restore power

[Nut-upsuser] Shutdown problem with Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-02-06 Thread Gary Redden
Nut will monitor the ups and shutdown Linux when the ups goes to low battery as it should. But the UPS is not shut down so the system will restart when the power is restored. If I switch the UPS off , restore power and switch the UPS on the system will restart. I have not been able to get nut t

[Nut-upsuser] newhidups output for Geek Squad GS1285U

2007-01-26 Thread Gary Redden
This took a long time because I had problems with my system. After I reloaded my operating system several times I found I had a bad memory module. Here is the output from newhidups for my Geek Squad GS1285U. It just kept repeating until I hit ctl-z. I think that this means nut will work for thi

[Fwd: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Install problem & Geek Squad UPS]

2007-01-19 Thread Gary Redden
(or type "libusb" into Google). -- Peter Gary Redden wrote: When I try to build newhidups I seem to be missing a file (usb.h) or=20 should be setting a parameter SHUT_MODE. I did a search of my system and=20 do not have the file usb.h. I also poked around on WebSvn but could not=2

[Nut-upsuser] Install problem & Geek Squad UPS

2007-01-19 Thread Gary Redden
When I try to build newhidups I seem to be missing a file (usb.h) or should be setting a parameter SHUT_MODE. I did a search of my system and do not have the file usb.h. I also poked around on WebSvn but could not turn up the file. I think SHUT_MODE is for a different device than I have. Where

[Nut-upsuser] Install problem & Geek Squad UPS

2007-01-19 Thread Gary Redden
I Seem to have made some progress in getting nut-2.0.5 installed, but hidups still has a version number of 0.13. First is hidups 0.13 the correct version? if not how do I find the correct version. Second if my Geek Squad GS1285U UPS is not supported how do I proceed. I have been a programmer fo

[Nut-upsuser] Install question

2007-01-18 Thread Gary Redden
I downloaded nut-2.0.5 and followed the install instructions down to step 6. Since I will be using a USB port to connect to the Geek Squad GS 1285U did not go any farther yet. I tried to run "/lib/nut/hidups -DD -u root auto" to see if it found my UPS. But it is still the old hidups 0.13 from n