I have a UPS NS 1250 which I have used for several years, even had to replace the batteries last year or so. It no longer will connect, since yesterday. it is cable connected via usb and config (/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf): UPSNAME paka-ups UPSCABLE usb UPSTYPE usb DEVICE POLLTIME 10 LOCKFILE /var/lock SCRIPTDIR /etc/apcupsd PWRFAILDIR /etc/apcupsd NOLOGINDIR /etc ONBATTERYDELAY 6 BATTERYLEVEL 5 MINUTES 3 TIMEOUT 0 ANNOY 300 ANNOYDELAY 60 NOLOGON disable KILLDELAY 0 NETSERVER on NISIP 0.0.0.0 NISPORT 3551 EVENTSFILE /var/log/apcupsd.events EVENTSFILEMAX 10 UPSCLASS standalone UPSMODE disable STATTIME 0 STATFILE /var/log/apcupsd.status LOGSTATS off DATATIME 0 UPSNAME paka-ups BATTDATE 01/04/18 SELFTEST 336 apcupsd is not running, fails with: # systemctl status apcupsd ● apcupsd.service - APC UPS Power Control Daemon for Linux Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/apcupsd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2019-08-17 11:22:39 EDT; 2s ago Process: 12425 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /etc/apcupsd/powerfail (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 12429 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apcupsd -b -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 12429 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: apcsmart Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: net Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: snmplite Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: pcnet Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: modbus Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: Most likely, you need to add --enable-usb to your ./configure options. Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in apcupsd.c at line 196 Apcupsd cannot continue without a valid driver. Aug 17 11:22:39 crash systemd[1]: apcupsd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 17 11:22:39 crash apcupsd[12429]: apcupsd error shutdown completed Aug 17 11:22:39 crash systemd[1]: apcupsd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. this all worked asis yesterday and years previous. to my knowledge nothing related has changed since the last start of apcupsd. google has lots of comments but cannot ask the correct question or just plain do not know where to look. tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org