> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Here's an odd one: I installed apcupsd, and it works with most of our >> UPSs. I'd swear it worked on this one. Then I replaced the Gin-u-wine >> APC batteries, which were dead, with new ones, non-APC. They're just dumb >> batteries, no chips or whatever on them. >> >> If I hook it up using a serial cable, I can get info. If I hook it up >> the way I had it, with APC's weird USB cable - and this is the way it was >> working before - it fails. I run apctest, and it gives me: >> >> Attached to driver: usb >> sharenet.type = DISABLE >> cable.type = USB_CABLE >> >> You are using a USB cable type, so I'm entering USB test mode >> mode.type = USB_UPS >> Setting up the port ... >> Hello, this is the apcupsd Cable Test program. >> This part of apctest is for testing USB UPSes. >> >> Getting UPS capabilities...SUCCESS >> >> Then I tell it to do the self test, and get: >> >> This test instructs the UPS to perform a self-test >> operation and reports the result when the test completes. >> >> Clearing previous self test result...CLEARED >> Initiating self test...INITIATED >> Waiting for test to complete...ERROR READING STATUS >> 12.976 apcupsd: linux-usb.c:802 HIDIOCGREPORT for function >> SelftestStatus >> failed. ERR=Input/output error >> >> Now, I've even found an rpm that was *not* two+ years old, as what comes >> with CentOS 5.4, current update, and get the same error. >> >> In addition, even though the batteries are fully charged, and the info I >> get via the serial cable says they're at 100%, the red "change battery" >> light is still on on the front of the UPS. Hitting the "test" button >> doesn't help; I was hoping running the self-test that's available via >> the >> USB connection would reset it, but I can't do that. >> >> Any clues for the poor? >> > Funny, after reading the above, I decided to try the apcupsd with my new > fancy APC with the LCD display and everything. Got very similar results. > Gnome Power Manager recognizes it from the get go, just with decreased > functionality. It would be nice to have Centos able to 'plug' into all > of its features and diagnostics. I'm running 5.4 on a hardware raid 10 > server....old Adaptec 2400A with 128 megs of cache. This machine seems > to have problems with the partition managers as well. Could LVM be > getting in the way somehow? Nope - we're not using LVM. And apcupsd's apctest is command line. mark