Bug 46440

Summary:	UPS power not killed in shutdown when using apcupsd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lee Weisz <lweisz>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	blackace, demerss, gentoo.bugs.10, lars.geiger, remy, tantive
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Makes halt.sh configurable for NUT and apcupsd systems Improved patch, autodetects nut or apcupsd

Description Lee Weisz 2004-03-31 21:26:27 UTC

In a battery exhausted shutdown situation the computer should signal the UPS to kill the power when it has safely shutdown.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Kill the UPS power
2. Computer runs on batteries until signalled to shutdown.
3.

Actual Results:  
Computer shuts down, but UPS never kills power

Expected Results:  
UPS should kill power.

apcupsd uses /etc/init.d/halt script to kill power. The latest releases ignore
this script and call /etc/init.d/halt.sh instead. /etc/init.d/halt.sh only knows
how to shutdown NUT based UPS systems.

Comment 1 Lee Weisz 2004-03-31 21:33:11 UTC

Created attachment 28487 [details, diff]
Makes halt.sh configurable for NUT and apcupsd systems

The attached patch will modify the halt.sh script to allow the UPS killpower
function to be configured for either system. Luckily both systems are very
similar. There are three fields at the top of the resultant script for setting
the killpower parameters. It should work for NUT, but I don't know since I
don't use that system. There's probably a better place for these parameters,
rc.conf perhaps?

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-21 14:12:28 UTC

which version of acpupsd ?

Comment 3 Lee Weisz 2004-04-21 14:31:25 UTC

I've checked 3.10.9, 3.10.10, 3.10.12. The problem isn't with apcupsd so much as with halt.sh.

Comment 4 Remy Blank 2004-08-12 16:29:32 UTC

Created attachment 37319 [details, diff]
Improved patch, autodetects nut or apcupsd

I improved the first patch so that it autodetects if the power fail event was
generated by nut or apcupsd, and acts accordingly.

Tested with:
baselayout-1.9.4-r3
apcupsd-3.10.10-r2

I still have a problem with the power kill, because my UPS uses USB, I run
udev, and it seems that /dev is unmounted before trying to kill the power. But
that's not related to this bug.

Comment 5 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-01 14:43:00 UTC

I don't know if I'm the right person to do changes to baselayout.
I think someone more familiar with baselayout should use the provided fixes to improve /etc/init.d/halt.sh.
I'll then remove /etc/init.d/halt from the apcupsd ebuild.

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-10 21:57:59 UTC

added to cvs, thanks