[Nut-upsuser] 2.6.31.4: USB/UPS connectivity issue on Intel DP55KG Motherboard [DEBUG logs included upsd/upsmon/usbhid-ups]

[Justin Piszcz]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Alan,
>>> 
>>> I have performed all of the steps you recommended, there is also a bug in
>>> the docs, the directory seems to be different, or at least if you have
>>> everything compiled into the kernel and not using modules.
>> 
>>> Start nut:
>>> # /etc/init.d/nut start
>>> Starting Network UPS Tools: upsdrvctl upsd upsmon.
>>> 
>>> Within ~20-30 seconds it already broke:
>>> ============================================================================
>>> Broadcast Message from nut at p34.internal.lan
>>>          (somewhere) at 17:22 ...
>> 
>> Well, the usbmon trace shows that wherever the problem lies, it isn't
>> in the kernel.  There were a few problems in the device itself -- it
>> was queried for a report and did not provide any data.  The nut program
>> should be smart enough to retry when this happens, but it didn't.
>> 
>> It did try to re-establish communcation with the device, but it appears
>> that nut got caught in a loop during this attempt.  During this loop
>> nut did nothing but transfer a bunch of string descriptors from the
>> device, over and over again at 2-second intervals.  The loop lasted for
>> almost a minute, until another device error occurred.  Then nut
>> recovered properly -- until a third error happened and nut got stuck in
>> its loop again.
>> 
>> Alan Stern
>> 
>
> Hi,
>
> To the nut list, the last time nut changed was 2009-06-13:
>
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 configure nut-cgi 2.4.1-3 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 status unpacked nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 status unpacked nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 status unpacked nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 status unpacked nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 status unpacked nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:25 status half-configured nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
> 2009-06-13 04:29:26 status installed nut-cgi 2.4.1-3
>
> I made no changes to the nut configuration or install.
>
> What did change was the motherboard.
>
> From: Intel DG965WH -> Intel DP55KG
>
> Then this problem began.
>
> Justin.

Is there anything else I can do on my end?  Or is this with the nut developers
at this point?

Justin.