[arch-general] kernel26-2.6.33.3-1, nut (upsd) is dead. It's either the kernel or nut 2.4.3

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

	After update to 2.6.33.3-1, network-ups-tools (nut/upsd) starts, but cannot
communicate with itself on localhost or across the network anymore. The default
abs configuration was used so it isn't with one of my famous configure strings.
It starts fine, but then here is what I get in my logs:

May  3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27067]: listening on 192.168.6.17 port 3493
May  3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27067]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
May  3 00:23:17 nirvana upsd[27068]: Startup successful
May  3 00:23:17 nirvana upsmon[27070]: Startup successful
May  3 00:23:17 nirvana upsmon[27072]: Communications with UPS
archangel_ups at archangel.3111skyline.com lost
May  3 00:23:17 nirvana wall[27074]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (70 chars)
May  3 00:23:22 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS
archangel_ups at archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable
May  3 00:23:22 nirvana upsmon[27072]: Communications with UPS
nirvana_ups at localhost lost
May  3 00:23:22 nirvana wall[27077]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (60 chars)
May  3 00:23:22 nirvana wall[27079]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (52 chars)
May  3 00:23:27 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS nirvana_ups at localhost is unavailable
May  3 00:23:27 nirvana wall[27084]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars)
May  3 00:28:23 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS
archangel_ups at archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable
May  3 00:28:23 nirvana wall[27104]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (60 chars)
May  3 00:28:28 nirvana upsmon[27072]: UPS nirvana_ups at localhost is unavailable
May  3 00:28:28 nirvana wall[27108]: wall: user nut broadcasted 1 lines (42 chars)

and every few minute or two, this gets dumped to the terminal:

[00:25 nirvana:/home/david] #
Broadcast message from nut (Mon May  3 00:28:23 2010):

UPS archangel_ups at archangel.3111skyline.com is unavailable

Broadcast message from nut (Mon May  3 00:28:28 2010):

UPS nirvana_ups at localhost is unavailable

and on the second Arch box

[00:24 archangel:/home/david] #
Broadcast message from nut (Mon May  3 00:28:41 2010):

UPS archangel_ups at localhost is unavailable

Broadcast message from nut (Mon May  3 00:28:41 2010):

UPS nirvana_ups at nirvana.3111skyline.com is unavailable


(I have two CyberPower AVRLCD 1000 ups'es that have always done fine. They use
the usbhid-ups interface through /dev/hiddev0 and each monitor each other over
the LAN. )

The abs package is network-ups-tools with abs updated and built against the
nut-2.4.3.tar.gz source to make network-ups-tools-2.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.

To solve the problem, I dropped back to the abs network-ups-tools-2.4.1 PKGBUILD
that I still had laying around and rebuilt against the new kernel and all is
working as it should. So there is either a kernel error or error in the 2.4.3
nut package. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket. Thanks.


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