NUT package (2.8.0 and below)

whoami TM

@jpp-0 I couldn't get the Smart1500 LCD I had to work if my life depended on it. I must have had a defective unit. I ended up returning it and getting a APC BGM1500B which worked right out of the box.

I couldn't get offdelay=60 and ondelay=90 to hold. It would hold the settings for 20 mins max then revert to default values.

To top that off the UPS would run down until the battery died and never send shutdown command to my Netgate box.

Can you screen shot or post your settings. I'm interested to find out what actually works with that UPS. I killed myself for weeks until my return window was about to close before my autism would allow me to give up.

link to my orginal post

JPP 0

@whoami-tm right now I just have the defaults set on pfsense. My setup is a bit odd in that it should never get to shutdown becasue the generator / automatic transfer kicks in after 25 seconds and I have about a week's worth of propane on site.

I have by proxmox servers (the very originally named pxoxie and moxie, both nut clients) set to shutdown after 10 mins if for some reason the generator fails.

The pfsense box is not configured to shutdown. I'm running ram disk filesystems so I'm less worried about disk corruption and want to keep it running as long as possible.

I blew away all the config I had on pfSense trying to debug the crashes, I may add some complexity back but not for a while.

Lastly I would not buy Tripplite again it completely fails to give a decent runtime estimate (best guess is the power factor on modife sine wave is different enough from tru sine on the grid that it just get's confused).

JPP 0

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JPP 0

@whoami-tm have you tried this

[23.01-RELEASE][root@gatekeeper]/root: upsrw -s ups.delay.shutdown tripplite
Username (root): admin
Password: 
Enter new value for ups.delay.shutdown: 59
OK

sub in your ups name and get the password for admin from /usr/local/etc/nut/upsd.users

ups.delay.shutdown seems to be the only value you can program but if I'm reading it correctly it should let you make it wait longer before powering off.

dreadful9278

I'm using a CyberPower UPS, and I'm experiencing the same signal 10 error. I've found the interruptonly setting to work until the USB issue is resolved.

If there is anything I can do to help/test a fix then let me know :-)

Anecdotally I've noticed my firewall's processor is running hotter than it used to, I don't think the CPU is idling properly not sure if anyone else is noticing a similar problem and if it is related in some way.

LamaZ

@dennypage I just wanted to thank you again sincerely for this post and for finding my erroneous post. This research has made the upgrade to pfSense+ 23.01 stable.

dennypage

@lamaz You're welcome. Glad it's working for you.

trentk10

Thanks for the work everyone has put into this so far.

Decided to upgrade from 2.6 CE to plus 23.01 today. Having the same issues as others are too. Looks to be with the usb driver. Started happening shortly after updrade completed.

I am getting the same results after adding root as a user.


Mar  8 21:53:35 pfSense upsd[9141]: Can't connect to UPS [eaton9130rm] (usbhid-ups-eaton9130rm): Connection refused
Mar  8 21:53:35 pfSense kernel: pid 8842 (usbhid-ups), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 10
Mar  8 21:53:39 pfSense upsmon[1672]: Poll UPS [eaton9130rm] failed - Driver not connected
Mar  8 21:53:39 pfSense upsmon[1672]: Communications with UPS eaton9130rm lost
Mar  8 21:53:45 pfSense upsmon[1672]: Poll UPS [eaton9130rm] failed - Driver not connected
Mar  8 21:53:50 pfSense upsmon[1672]: Poll UPS [eaton9130rm] failed - Driver not connected
Mar  8 21:53:55 pfSense upsmon[1672]: Poll UPS [eaton9130rm] failed - Driver not connected

dennypage

@trentk10 said in NUT package:

Mar 8 21:53:35 pfSense kernel: pid 8842 (usbhid-ups), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 10

Unfortunately, this is being hit by a lot of people with NUT 8.0. See this post for information.

DavidIr

@dennypage I seem to have a similar but possibly different problem.

My UPS is an Eaton Eclipse ECO 650 connected by USB to my Netgate-3100 running 23.01-RELEASE (arm) with NUT 2.8.0_2.

Note: the setup worked perfectly before my update to 23.01 and 2.8.0 for over 6 months, there have been no powercuts/surges or hardware changes.

As with others I am seeing repeated log entries from upsmon.

Mar 12 09:57:09	upsmon	80760	Poll UPS [EatonUPS] failed - Driver not connected
Mar 12 09:57:04	upsmon	80760	Poll UPS [EatonUPS] failed - Driver not connected

If I filter my logs to upshid-ups I only see the following:

Mar 9 22:26:16	usbhid-ups	91631	Startup successful
Mar 9 22:26:09	usbhid-ups	70838	Signal 15: exiting
Mar 9 22:20:46	usbhid-ups	70838	Startup successful
Mar 9 22:20:41	usbhid-ups	47718	Signal 15: exiting
Mar 9 22:13:14	usbhid-ups	47718	Startup successful
Mar 9 22:10:05	usbhid-ups	75991	Signal 15: exiting
Mar 9 21:57:06	usbhid-ups	75991	Startup successful

If I filter the logs to upsd I see:

Mar 12 09:07:25	upsd	82791	Can't connect to UPS [EatonUPS] (usbhid-ups-EatonUPS): Connection refused
Mar 12 09:02:25	upsd	82791	Can't connect to UPS [EatonUPS] (usbhid-ups-EatonUPS): Connection refused
Mar 12 08:57:25	upsd	82791	Can't connect to UPS [EatonUPS] (usbhid-ups-EatonUPS): Connection refused
Mar 12 08:52:25	upsd	82791	Can't connect to UPS [EatonUPS] (usbhid-ups-EatonUPS): Connection refused
Mar 9 22:26:16	upsd	82791	Connected to UPS [EatonUPS]: usbhid-ups-EatonUPS
Mar 9 22:26:14	upsd	82791	User local-monitor@::1 logged into UPS [EatonUPS]
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	Startup successful
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	Can't connect to UPS [EatonUPS] (usbhid-ups-EatonUPS): No such file or directory
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	not listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	listening on ::1 port 3493
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	not listening on 192.168.200.254 port 3493
Mar 9 22:26:10	upsd	82791	listening on pfsense.{internaldomainname} port 3493
Mar 9 22:26:09	upsd	62680	Signal 15: exiting
Mar 9 22:26:09	upsd	62680	mainloop: Interrupted system call
Mar 9 22:26:09	upsd	62680	User local-monitor@::1 logged out from UPS [EatonUPS]

This morning the failure occurred at 08:52 (from notification email):

8:52:27 UPS Notification from pfSense.irwazu.co.uk - Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:52:27 +0000

Communications with UPS EatonUPS lost

My configuration is extra arguments to driver:

pollfreq=90

Additional configuration lines for upsmon.conf

RUN_AS_USER root

Additional configuration lines for ups.conf

user=root
pollinterval=15

Other than using the "interruptonly" option is there anything I can do to resolve or help debug the cause? Is this likely the same issue as for CyberPower UPSs you've already identified?

Full logs of a restart of the UPS service are as follows:

Mar 12 10:05:19	upsmon	69168	Communications with UPS EatonUPS established
Mar 12 10:05:16	upsd	70834	Connected to UPS [EatonUPS]: usbhid-ups-EatonUPS
Mar 12 10:05:15	usbhid-ups	80232	Startup successful
Mar 12 10:05:14	upsmon	69168	UPS EatonUPS is unavailable
Mar 12 10:05:14	upsmon	69168	Poll UPS [EatonUPS] failed - Driver not connected
Mar 12 10:05:14	upsd	70834	User local-monitor@::1 logged into UPS [EatonUPS]
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	Startup successful
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	Can't connect to UPS [EatonUPS] (usbhid-ups-EatonUPS): Connection refused
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	not listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	listening on ::1 port 3493
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	not listening on 192.168.200.254 port 3493
Mar 12 10:05:10	upsd	70834	listening on pfsense.irwazu.co.uk port 3493
Mar 12 10:05:09	upsmon	69168	Communications with UPS EatonUPS lost
Mar 12 10:05:09	upsmon	69168	UPS [EatonUPS]: connect failed: Connection failure: Connection refused
Mar 12 10:05:09	upsmon	69168	Startup successful
Mar 12 10:05:08	upsd	82791	Signal 15: exiting
Mar 12 10:05:08	upsd	82791	mainloop: Interrupted system call
Mar 12 10:05:08	upsd	82791	User local-monitor@::1 logged out from UPS [EatonUPS]
Mar 12 10:05:08	upsmon	80760	Signal 15: exiting
Mar 12 10:05:07	upsmon	80760	Poll UPS [EatonUPS] failed - Driver not connected

dennypage

@davidir Your log messages do not show anything particularly unusual. Signal 15 indicates that the usbhid-ups process was terminated via a kill signal. This is usually triggered by a package restart such was when your DHCP WAN address changes.

Btw, not sure what you are intending to do with the poll interval settings. Given that you are using a usb connection, there is a good reason to be setting these, particularly pollinterval in ups.conf which may negatively affect your shutdown. Unless you have a very concrete problem that you are fixing, I would recommend that you remove both of them. As well as the RUN_AS_USER setting in upsmon.conf.

dennypage

I've received several requests for the dev build of usbhid-ups, so I thought I would upload the file here.

usbhid-ups.gz

For reference, the shasum and sha256sum checksums of the unzipped file are:

49ce9131502bfb8b789ee97b7fb3fc81fc9f8fff  usbhid-ups
999a2653559dbc50ecc8ba592a67587b1e307a1495f6e8ebbd3d8e90e3967133  usbhid-ups

If you use the file, please post and let me know if it resolves an issue for you.

PatRyan

@dennypage thank you very much for this. I loaded it up today and so far, it has continued to run for about 5 hours. I'll report back tomorrow to let you know if it hangs up overnight.

For other folks' information, I put the file Denny shared into /usr/local/libexec/nut replacing the file already there. (Be sure to make a copy of the original in case this doesn't work for you.) Make sure that the permissions are set to rwxr-xr-x (0755). Also I had to include "user=root" in the ups.conf section in pfSense.

Thanks again Denny.

dennypage

@patryan said in NUT package:

Thanks again Denny.

Welcome!

PatRyan

Update - No issues overnight still running fine and serving my network as a NUT Server. Updated to the latest 2.7.0 Devel build this morning and UPS service started up without a hiccup. Very pleased.

FYI, I have a CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD and it is connected to my pfSense box via the supplied USB cable.

OffstageRoller

@dennypage said in NUT package:

I've received several requests for the dev build of usbhid-ups, so I thought I would upload the file here.

usbhid-ups.gz

For reference, the shasum and sha256sum checksums of the unzipped file are:
49ce9131502bfb8b789ee97b7fb3fc81fc9f8fff  usbhid-ups
999a2653559dbc50ecc8ba592a67587b1e307a1495f6e8ebbd3d8e90e3967133  usbhid-ups
If you use the file, please post and let me know if it resolves an issue for you.

So far so good for me with a Trip Lite SMART1500LCD! It's only been an hour, but it has stayed connected and my logs are no longer getting spammed by disconnects/connects.

OffstageRoller

@offstageroller said in NUT package:

@dennypage said in NUT package:
I've received several requests for the dev build of usbhid-ups, so I thought I would upload the file here.

usbhid-ups.gz

For reference, the shasum and sha256sum checksums of the unzipped file are:
49ce9131502bfb8b789ee97b7fb3fc81fc9f8fff  usbhid-ups
999a2653559dbc50ecc8ba592a67587b1e307a1495f6e8ebbd3d8e90e3967133  usbhid-ups
If you use the file, please post and let me know if it resolves an issue for you.
So far so good for me with a Trip Lite SMART1500LCD! It's only been an hour, but it has stayed connected and my logs are no longer getting spammed by disconnects/connects.

I'm at about 8 hours now, with no issues to report. All is well again with my USB connection to my UPS!

knight-of-ni

Hey guys. Mind if I join the party?

I upgraded from from 2.6 CE to 23.01 plus today, to get support for the 2.5Gbps nics in my firewall.

Unfortunately after the upgrade, NUT started failing because it couldn't claim the USB device:

Can't claim USB device [051d:0003]@0/0: Other error

UPS is a APC Smart-UPS 1500.

Did a little searching, found it was a permission error, and eventually found this thread.

Looks like I found the right place.

I've gone back through this thread about a month and started reading.

Adding user=root to ups.conf got things going again. However, I'd call that a workaround. If I read right, looks like I need to wait for the next release of NUT for a real fix.

At the moment I am not using @dennypage's custom usbhid-ups. If my UPS does not stay online, I'll apply it and post results.

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread for new information.

dennypage

@knight-of-ni said in NUT package:

Adding user=root to ups.conf got things going again. However, I'd call that a workaround. If I read right, looks like I need to wait for the next release of NUT for a real fix.

While the next release of nut is expected to address the CyberPower issue, it will not address the APC issue. The APC issue is a usb quirk issue, and this requires a new version of the kernel in pfSense to permanently resolve. I don't expect that to happen soon.

See here for further details of the APC issue. I recommend using the /boot/loader.conf.local solution if you can take a reboot.

dem

@dennypage said in NUT package:

If you use the file, please post and let me know if it resolves an issue for you.

Your version of usbhid-ups has been working fine with my CyberPower for 48 hours now. Thanks.