Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2886 mails)

[alta <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I made an adapter gizmo with resistors and diode.  Re-booted (just as 
a precaution), and simulated power-fail and low-battery.  Still, my 
system won't shut down.  I verified that the daemon is running with 
genericups 5.

It does not seem right that upsc and upsct fail, as below:

alta@alta1:~> upsc localhost
Unable to get variable list - Receive timeout
alta@alta1:~> upsct localhost
Unable to connect to localhost - Connection failure: Connection 
refused

Hmmm, I wonder why they would have trouble with localhost.  Like port 
numbers not matched, or blocked.  I'm not real knowledgable in this 
area.

... Reed, alta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



On Friday 15 February 2002 13:05, you wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2002 15:58, alta wrote:
>
> Great information.  Good to know TrippLite responded.
>
> > genericups 5 puts -12 on SD, +12 on DTR, and -12 on RTS.  This
> > all makes sense to me (and is compatible with measurements) for
> > genericups 5 except for one bad thing: If I simulate AC Fail and
> > Low Batt by feeding -12 volts to computer pins 1 and 8, my
> > computer does not shut down.  The daemon is running, but no
> > cigar.
>
> Do you have the resistors between 4 and 1 and 4 and 8 when you are
> testing?  I would think that they would have to be present for the
> software to detect a valid level change.  RS-232 inputs can swing
> either way if they are simply open circuited.  Applying the -12v
> to 1 and 8 might not actually be changing their states.