Package: nut-client
Version: 2.7.4-12
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I have two systems connected to a single UPS. The first system
running both nut-server and nut-client packages works fine. The
second system running only nut-client experiences this problem.
Systemd can't sucessfully start the nut-monitor.service. The reason
is that the /run/nut directory does not exist for upsmon to write its
pid file. Even though upsmon starts and connects to the remote
server, systemd eventually kills it becuase the pid file never gets
written.
The undesirable work around is to install the nut-server package so
that something run by it creates /run/nut before upsmon is run. This
also results in systemd attempting and failing to start the nut-driver
service. The nut-server service is started but it benignly succeeds
without starting upsd becaue MODE is set to netclient in
/etc/nut/nut.conf. The nut-driver service failure causes systemd to
that the system is in a degraded state because the unnecessary
nut-driver.service failed to start.
Ideally, upsmon should create the /run/nut directory if needed so the
nut-server package doesn't not need to be installed. Alternatively,
the nut-driver service should succeed benignly when not needed in the
same way the nut-server service does.
David Engel
da...@istwok.net
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages nut-client depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii init-system-helpers 1.57
ii libc6 2.30-8
ii libupsclient4 2.7.4-12
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
Versions of packages nut-client recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:2.10-1
Versions of packages nut-client suggests:
pn nut-monitor <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/nut/nut.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/nut/nut.conf'
/etc/nut/upsmon.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/nut/upsmon.conf'
/etc/nut/upssched.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/nut/upssched.conf'
-- no debconf information
