Comment 2 for bug 224791

2008/4/30 Al Grimstad <email address hidden>:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: nut
>
> This bug concerns the ill-fated nut 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7 in ubuntu 8.04.
>
> The bug is that upsmon, which I've configured to write its warnings to
> tty sessions is frequently reporting spurious low-battery conditions. I
> immediately run upsc to check the battery and it's at 100%. Worst, I've
> tried to turn off low battery warnings in upsmon.conf without defeating
> the spurious warnings. The only relief has been to shut down nut
> entirely.
> ...

2 things:
- upsmon only reports things it catches. This means that it won't
report a low battery status by itself, but only if it has been
reported by the driver and so upsd. And the low battery is reported
through "ups.status=LB".
So I would be in favor of a driver bug. To catch this, you'll have to
reproduce it while running the driver in debug mode (using -DDD).
- upsmon, as upsd, will only honor configuration changes if it has
either been restarted or reloaded.
so either using "upsmon -c reload" or "invoke-rc.d nut restart"

-- Arnaud

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