[CentOS] OT -- apcupsd messages

Dave Miller dave at davenjudy.org
Mon Aug 2 17:31:09 UTC 2010


Robert <kerplop at ...> writes:

> 
> Does anyone here have any "feel" for the "Battery disconnected" and 
> "Battery reattached" log entries?
> The rebooting came as a result of me turning off modems, router, 
> external drives, monitor, cordless phone and finally, the computer, 
> trying to locate a quiet but annoying "chirp".  The "chirps" stopped 
> when I tilted the UPS to look at the front panel. As you can see, log 
> entries stopped at as suddenly as they started.

>     Aug  1 23:22:06 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
>     Aug  1 23:22:07 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: NIS server startup succeeded
>     Aug  2 00:18:40 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
>     Aug  2 00:19:27 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
>     Aug  2 00:19:37 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery reattached.
>     Aug  2 00:22:13 madeleine apcupsd[3344]: Battery disconnected.
> 
<snip>

Had this happen with my APC UPS late January this year.  After contacting APC
support and working through their troubleshooting procedures, I ended up with a
new UPS since mine was still under warranty.

Cheers,
Dave





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