NUT Package (2.8.1 and above)

ghound

@dennypage said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

For some reason we are loosing the ability to query device manufacturer and product. That it is persistent indicates that there is a problem in the kernel's USB drivers or the hardware itself. Unfortunately this is well outside of NUT's control.

Looking at your usbconfig output, the one thing I would recommend is to try a different USB port on the host. Something that connects to bus0 (generic XHCI) rather than bus1 (Marvell EHCI).

Thank you for looking at all the logs. This is a Netgate SG1100 box, so I connected to the USB3 port at ugen0.1: <Generic XHCI root HUB> at usbus0 – Bus:000 Bus Port: 002; vice my original connection to the USB2 port at ugen1.1: <Marvell EHCI root HUB> at usbus1 – Bus:001 Bus Port: 001. Again, connection was lost after around one day of operation. I do have another SG1100 I can try. Any other troubleshooting ideas? Thank you.

Log USB3 port connection:

   0.007864	[D2] Checking device 3 of 3 (09AE/3024)
   0.010883	[D2] - VendorID: 09ae
   0.010949	[D2] - ProductID: 3024
   0.010964	[D2] - Manufacturer: Tripp Lite
   0.010976	[D2] - Product: ECO850LCD       
   0.010987	[D2] - Serial Number: 3216CV4BC87F303175
   0.010998	[D2] - Bus: 000
   0.011009	[D2] - Bus Port: 002
   0.011019	[D2] - Device: 002
   0.011030	[D2] - Device release number: 0002
   0.011041	[D2] Trying to match device
   0.011062	[D2] match_function_subdriver (non-SHUT mode): matching a device...
   0.011164	[D3] match_function_regex: matching a device...
   0.011185	[D2] Device matches

dennypage

@ghound said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

0.007864 [D2] Checking device 3 of 3 (09AE/3024)
0.010883 [D2] - VendorID: 09ae
0.010949 [D2] - ProductID: 3024
0.010964 [D2] - Manufacturer: Tripp Lite
0.010976 [D2] - Product: ECO850LCD
0.010987 [D2] - Serial Number: 3216CV4BC87F303175
0.010998 [D2] - Bus: 000
0.011009 [D2] - Bus Port: 002
0.011019 [D2] - Device: 002
0.011030 [D2] - Device release number: 0002

This looks correct (working). Manufacturer and Product are identifiable. If this subsequently fails, to confirm that the issue is the same as experienced on the other port, I would need to see what the driver says when it isn't working. Also interested to see the output of "usbconfig -v" when it isn't working.

ghound

@dennypage said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

This looks correct (working). Manufacturer and Product are identifiable. If this subsequently fails, to confirm that the issue is the same as experienced on the other port, I would need to see what the driver says when it isn't working. Also interested to see the output of "usbconfig -v" when it isn't working.

Below is result of usbconfig -v when the connection is not working (on USB3 port):

[23.09.1-RELEASE][admin@router01.localr01]/dev/usb: usbconfig -v
ugen0.1: <Generic XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen0.1.0: uhub0: <Generic XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1>

  bLength = 0x0012
  bDescriptorType = 0x0001
  bcdUSB = 0x0300
  bDeviceClass = 0x0009  <HUB>
  bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
  bDeviceProtocol = 0x0003
  bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0009
  idVendor = 0x0000
  idProduct = 0x0000
  bcdDevice = 0x0100
  iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Generic>
  iProduct = 0x0002  <XHCI root HUB>
  iSerialNumber = 0x0000  <no string>
  bNumConfigurations = 0x0001


 Configuration index 0

    bLength = 0x0009
    bDescriptorType = 0x0002
    wTotalLength = 0x001f
    bNumInterfaces = 0x0001
    bConfigurationValue = 0x0001
    iConfiguration = 0x0000  <no string>
    bmAttributes = 0x0040
    bMaxPower = 0x0000

    Interface 0
      bLength = 0x0009
      bDescriptorType = 0x0004
      bInterfaceNumber = 0x0000
      bAlternateSetting = 0x0000
      bNumEndpoints = 0x0001
      bInterfaceClass = 0x0009  <HUB>
      bInterfaceSubClass = 0x0000
      bInterfaceProtocol = 0x0000
      iInterface = 0x0000  <no string>

     Endpoint 0
        bLength = 0x0007
        bDescriptorType = 0x0005
        bEndpointAddress = 0x0081  <IN>
        bmAttributes = 0x0003  <INTERRUPT>
        wMaxPacketSize = 0x0002
        bInterval = 0x00ff
        bRefresh = 0x0000
        bSynchAddress = 0x0000

      Additional Descriptor

      bLength = 0x06
      bDescriptorType = 0x30
      bDescriptorSubType = 0x00
       RAW dump:
       0x00 | 0x06, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00




ugen1.1: <Marvell EHCI root HUB> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen1.1.0: uhub1: <Marvell EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1>

  bLength = 0x0012
  bDescriptorType = 0x0001
  bcdUSB = 0x0200
  bDeviceClass = 0x0009  <HUB>
  bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
  bDeviceProtocol = 0x0001
  bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
  idVendor = 0x0000
  idProduct = 0x0000
  bcdDevice = 0x0100
  iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Marvell>
  iProduct = 0x0002  <EHCI root HUB>
  iSerialNumber = 0x0000  <no string>
  bNumConfigurations = 0x0001


 Configuration index 0

    bLength = 0x0009
    bDescriptorType = 0x0002
    wTotalLength = 0x0019
    bNumInterfaces = 0x0001
    bConfigurationValue = 0x0001
    iConfiguration = 0x0000  <no string>
    bmAttributes = 0x0040
    bMaxPower = 0x0000

    Interface 0
      bLength = 0x0009
      bDescriptorType = 0x0004
      bInterfaceNumber = 0x0000
      bAlternateSetting = 0x0000
      bNumEndpoints = 0x0001
      bInterfaceClass = 0x0009  <HUB>
      bInterfaceSubClass = 0x0000
      bInterfaceProtocol = 0x0000
      iInterface = 0x0000  <no string>

     Endpoint 0
        bLength = 0x0007
        bDescriptorType = 0x0005
        bEndpointAddress = 0x0081  <IN>
        bmAttributes = 0x0003  <INTERRUPT>
        wMaxPacketSize = 0x0008
        bInterval = 0x00ff
        bRefresh = 0x0000
        bSynchAddress = 0x0000



ugen0.2: <Tripp Lite ECO850LCD> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)

  bLength = 0x0012
  bDescriptorType = 0x0001
  bcdUSB = 0x0200
  bDeviceClass = 0x0000  <Probed by interface class>
  bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000
  bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000
  bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040
  idVendor = 0x09ae
  idProduct = 0x3024
  bcdDevice = 0x0002
  iManufacturer = 0x0003  <retrieving string failed>
  iProduct = 0x0001  <retrieving string failed>
  iSerialNumber = 0x0005  <retrieving string failed>
  bNumConfigurations = 0x0001


 Configuration index 0

    bLength = 0x0009
    bDescriptorType = 0x0002
    wTotalLength = 0x0022
    bNumInterfaces = 0x0001
    bConfigurationValue = 0x0001
    iConfiguration = 0x0000  <no string>
    bmAttributes = 0x00a0
    bMaxPower = 0x0032

    Interface 0
      bLength = 0x0009
      bDescriptorType = 0x0004
      bInterfaceNumber = 0x0000
      bAlternateSetting = 0x0000
      bNumEndpoints = 0x0001
      bInterfaceClass = 0x0003  <HID device>
      bInterfaceSubClass = 0x0000
      bInterfaceProtocol = 0x0000
      iInterface = 0x0000  <no string>

      Additional Descriptor

      bLength = 0x09
      bDescriptorType = 0x21
      bDescriptorSubType = 0x11
       RAW dump:
       0x00 | 0x09, 0x21, 0x11, 0x01, 0x21, 0x01, 0x22, 0x75,
       0x08 | 0x03

     Endpoint 0
        bLength = 0x0007
        bDescriptorType = 0x0005
        bEndpointAddress = 0x0081  <IN>
        bmAttributes = 0x0003  <INTERRUPT>
        wMaxPacketSize = 0x0040
        bInterval = 0x00ff
        bRefresh = 0x0000
        bSynchAddress = 0x0000




Broadcast Message from root@router01.localr01
        (no tty) at 16:01 EDT...

UPS TrippLite is unavailable

dennypage

@ghound said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

iManufacturer = 0x0003 <retrieving string failed>
iProduct = 0x0001 <retrieving string failed>
iSerialNumber = 0x0005 <retrieving string failed>

It was worth a shot.

Can you confirm that this behavior started following an upgrade of pfSense?

ghound

@dennypage said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

Can you confirm that this behavior started following an upgrade of pfSense?

Behavior has persisted through several updates. (In fact, UPS has never not had this issue from its first day out of the box.)

dennypage

@ghound said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

Behavior has persisted through several updates. (In fact, UPS has never not had this issue from its first day out of the box.)

Okay, I'm confused. Please detail what previous version/date that the problem did not occur, and what version/date began to occurr.

ghound

@dennypage said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

Okay, I'm confused. Please detail what previous version/date that the problem did not occur, and what version/date began to occurr.

TrippLite UPS was purchased new in May '23 and connected to SG-1100 (23.05 / 2.8.0_2). You gave me a few tips to properly load usbhid-ups. Once usbhid-ups loaded correctly, after a few days, UPS lost connection (so the UPS has never operated without the lost connection problem every few days). At the time, I believed this was the "lost connection" problem mentioned in the thread. The problem has persisted from first connection to today. SG-1100 is currently 23.09.1 and Nut 2.8.2_1.

dennypage

@ghound said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

TrippLite UPS was purchased new in May '23 and connected to SG-1100 (23.05 / 2.8.0_2). You gave me a few tips to properly load usbhid-ups. Once usbhid-ups loaded correctly, after a few days, UPS lost connection (so the UPS has never operated without the lost connection problem every few days). At the time, I believed this was the "lost connection" problem mentioned in the thread. The problem has persisted from first connection to today. SG-1100 is currently 23.09.1 and Nut 2.8.2_1.

Ah, okay. It's never operated correctly. I had misunderstood that it was a regression.

pvk1

@dennypage Sorry if this is the wrong place. I migrated the configuration to a Netgate 4200. I have NUT package 2.8.2_1. It had permission errors. After including user=root in the ups.conf section (as suggested by you in the previous track) it started working. It also worked on the previous system.
Schermafbeelding 2024-03-30 091809.png

dennypage

@pvk1 Ownership of the /var/db/nut directory is incorrect. The following command will fix that:

chown -R nut:nut /var/db/nut

The errors for /usr/local/etc/nut are more of an issue. Those files should be accessed prior to switching to user "nut". What version of pfSense are you running? What does

pkg info | grep nut

report? Thx.

pvk1

@dennypage
I am running: 23.09.1-RELEASE (amd64)

pkg info:

nut-devel-2024.01.03 Network UPS Tools
pfSense-pkg-nut-2.8.2_1 Network UPS Tools

thx

dennypage

@pvk1 Can you post the output of the the following commands please?

ls -l /var/db/nut
ls -l /usr/local/etc/nut

Thanks

pvk1

@dennypage Hi, thx

ls -l /var/db/nut
total 0
ls: /var/db/nut: Permission denied

ls -l /usr/local/etc/nut
total 143
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 15136 Mar 4 22:00 cmdvartab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 98236 Mar 4 22:00 driver.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1071 Mar 4 22:00 hosts.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1071 Mar 4 22:00 hosts.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4774 Mar 4 22:00 nut.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4774 Mar 4 22:00 nut.conf.sample
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 124 Apr 1 18:43 ups.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9845 Mar 4 22:00 ups.conf.sample
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 28 Apr 1 18:43 upsd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9199 Mar 4 22:00 upsd.conf.sample
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 167 Apr 1 18:43 upsd.users
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2349 Mar 4 22:00 upsd.users.sample
-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 530 Apr 1 18:43 upsmon.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24735 Mar 4 22:00 upsmon.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4217 Mar 4 22:00 upssched.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4217 Mar 4 22:00 upssched.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1871 Mar 4 22:00 upsset.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1871 Mar 4 22:00 upsset.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6861 Mar 4 22:00 upsstats-single.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6861 Mar 4 22:00 upsstats-single.html.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4096 Mar 4 22:00 upsstats.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4096 Mar 4 22:00 upsstats.html.sample

Gertjan

@pvk1 said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

ls: /var/db/nut: Permission denied

Strange.
You are root, right ?

[24.03-BETA][root@pfSense.bhf.tld]/root: whoami
root

dennypage

@pvk1 said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

ls -l /var/db/nut
total 0
ls: /var/db/nut: Permission denied

As @Gertjan noted, you need to run the commands as root.

pvk1

@dennypage
Thx. I had disabled the admin user, so I could not login as root. The user that I login with is member of the system admins.

I now enabled admin again.
s: /var/db/nut:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nut 6 Apr 2 13:19 upsd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nut 6 Apr 2 13:19 upsmon.pid
srw-rw---- 1 root nut 0 Apr 2 13:19 usbhid-ups-ups
-rw-r--r-- 1 root nut 6 Apr 2 13:19 usbhid-ups-ups.pid

dennypage

@pvk1 Running as non-root will require that ownership of /var/db/nut, and all files therein, to be user "nut".

Note that all of the following needs to be done as root.

Suggested path:

Remove user=root from the configuration. NB: If you have anything else in the Advanced section, please post that before continuing...
Shut down the UPS service via command "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut.sh stop".
Do "ps -axuw | grep ups" and see if any of the nut commands, such as upsmon, are still running. If they are you can stop them with "killall upsmon".
Change ownership of /var/db/nut via command "chown -R nut /var/db/nut".

Following that, you should see permissions like so:

[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw]/root: ls -ld /var/db
drwxr-xr-x  22 root wheel 54 Apr  2 08:29 /var/db
[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw.cococafe.com]/root: ls -la /var/db/nut
total 10
drwxr-x---   2 nut  nut    3 Apr  2 10:17 .
drwxr-xr-x  22 root wheel 54 Apr  2 08:29 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 nut  uucp   6 Apr  1 14:40 upsmon.pid
[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw]/root:

You can also check permissions for /usr/local/etc/nut like so:

[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw]/root: ls -ld /usr/local/etc
drwxr-xr-x  35 root wheel 91 Apr  2 08:45 /usr/local/etc
[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw]/root: ls -ld /usr/local/etc/nut
drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel 24 Feb 10 12:16 /usr/local/etc/nut
[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw]/root: ls -la /usr/local/etc/nut/*.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 1071 Feb  7 11:02 /usr/local/etc/nut/hosts.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 4774 Feb  7 11:02 /usr/local/etc/nut/nut.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root wheel   43 Apr  1 14:29 /usr/local/etc/nut/ups.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root wheel   28 Apr  1 14:29 /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root wheel  530 Apr  1 14:29 /usr/local/etc/nut/upsmon.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 4217 Feb  7 11:02 /usr/local/etc/nut/upssched.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 1871 Feb  7 11:02 /usr/local/etc/nut/upsset.conf
[23.09.1-RELEASE][root@fw]/root:

Lastly, start the UPS service via command "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut.sh start".

dennypage

@pvk1 said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

It just occurred to me... was this attempt to start nut via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nut.sh done as a non root user?

If so, the output makes perfect sense.

jonlecroy

@dennypage I just upgraded to pfsense 24.03 with nut 2.8.2_2. Does this have the fix for this issue, or should I reapply the private? Thanks!

dennypage

@jonlecroy said in NUT Package (2.8.1 and above):

Does this have the fix for this issue, or should I reapply the private?

What issue are you referring to?