NUT APC Smart UPS 1500 Service Failed to Start

[UnderCover]

btw….

I reverted to the offical 2.0.4 beta package

i changed the settings to use my APC Smart UPS 1500 to use a black serial cable

it works perfectly

thanks for all your help!

[dotdash]

FWIW, I had a similar issue. Did a fresh install on RC3 on a box that was previously running an older version- beta2, rc1, I forget. Nut was monitoring an APC Smart-UPS 1500 via USB. Re-loaded the packages after restoring the config, but nut would not start. Deleted nut-usb and nut 2.0.4, and loaded nut 2.2.0. Modified the nut.xml, re-selected Smart-UPS (USB), and saved. Worked fine for me.

[Visseroth]

How did you go about getting around the required packages?

And forgive me for asking but how do you install nut 2.2? Where is the package located once downloaded.

We have had quite a winter here and people and trees are constantly hitting power lines and messing up the power and I would really love to have this working.

I have a APC 750 VA UPS and it only has a USB interface.

[dotdash]

Here are the notes, adjusted to the currently available package.
I haven't had to try it recently, so It may work or it may not. The process is after all, unsupported.
Hope these help, but I can't really provide any more help- I was just following rsw686's notes:

fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/nut-2.2.0_1.tbz
pkg_delete nut-usb-2.0.4
pkg_delete nut-2.0.4
fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/net-snmp-5.3.2_1.tbz
pkg_add net-snmp-5.3.2_1.tbz
pkg_add nut-2.2.0_1.tbz

edit /usr/local/pkg/nut.xml

under APC Smart-UPS USB
changed newhidups05 to usbhid-ups00

webgui-
nut, config, select APC Smart-UPS USB, save

[Visseroth]

I am getting the error…...

# pkg_add net-snmp-5.3.2_1.tbz
pkg_add: package 'net-snmp-5.3.2_1' or its older version already installed

unfortunately I don't know what prior version is installed. Any help?

[jahonix]

pkg_info shows which packages are installed.

[Visseroth]

Well thank you  for the reply. Apparently I'm not having any luck and am afraid of breaking my box so I just hope that some time soon nut 2.2 will be added to the packages.

[jahonix]

Does pkg_info show any installed net-snmp… infos?

[Visseroth]

Well, don't know now. I gave up and maybe for the better, for the reason posted in http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7832.0.html

[DAPBENJAMIN]

Hi,

I made the change as suggested above:
"
Then you would need to modify /usr/local/pkg/nut.xml and change newhidups to usbhid-ups.
"

And now my Back-UPS ES 650 works perfectly.


[UnderCover]

since we have gone to freebsd 7….

are you going to update nut 2.0.4 to the latest out and make it available for the 1.2.1 test snapshots to download?