Package: apcupsd Version: 3.14.14-1 Severity: normal I'm stumped on this one. My computer's been beeping for a few days, but I don't know the reason. One idea is that it might be related to my UPS, so I looked at the syslog and discovered the following entries; I disconnected the USB cable as a test at 13:43, and reconnected it at 13:43:38:
Mar 29 13:43:38 erdos kernel: [106523.490967] usb 2-1.4: Product: Back-UPS CS 350 FW:807.q10 .I USB FW:q10 Mar 29 13:43:38 erdos kernel: [106523.697308] hid-generic 0003:051D:0002.0006: hiddev0,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS CS 350 FW:807.q10 .I USB FW:q10 ] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.4/input0 Mar 29 13:51:19 erdos apcupsd[1010]: Communications with UPS lost. Mar 29 14:01:20 erdos apcupsd[1010]: Communications with UPS lost. Mar 29 14:11:20 erdos apcupsd[1010]: Communications with UPS lost. Mar 29 14:21:20 erdos apcupsd[1010]: Communications with UPS lost. This is bizarre, because the XFCE power manager applet very correctly tells me the status of the UPS. The log file /var/log/apcupsd.events has these same communications lost messages in it (though not the startup messages). I then disconnected the UPS from the power supply as a test, and there are no entries in the syslog from this episode. However, the applet did correctly report (after a minute or two) that the system was running on battery power, and then that the UPS was charging when I plugged it back in. In spite of this, there was no message in the syslog about this. Any clue? Best wishes, Julian -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers stretch APT policy: (500, 'stretch'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apcupsd depends on: ii gconf-service 3.2.6-4.1 ii init-system-helpers 1.51 ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1 ii libc6 2.27-2 ii libcairo2 1.15.10-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.12.6-0.1 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2 ii libgcc1 1:8-20180321-1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-4.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.11-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.56.0-4 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.14-1 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-31 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-27 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 Versions of packages apcupsd recommends: ii apcupsd-doc 3.14.14-1 ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 Versions of packages apcupsd suggests: pn apcupsd-cgi <none> ii udev 238-3 -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/apcupsd changed: ISCONFIGURED=yes -- no debconf information
