Topic: powstatd broke after SME 5.5 Update 6!

[Marco Ranieri]

I installed powstatd for my Cyberpower UPS and all was good...until I installed SME update 6.

Now when I run the "powstatd -t" command instead of showing "OK" I get the following:

"powstatd: socket bind error; quitting."


In the boot-up process it says that the powstatd service is running ([OK]).

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Ray Mitchell]

Try uninstalling powstatd and then reinstall it.
Remember to copy your config file first (/etc/powstatd.conf) to save having to configure it again.

[Charlie Brady]

Ray Mitchell wrote:

> Try uninstalling powstatd and then reinstall it.
> Remember to copy your config file first (/etc/powstatd.conf)
> to save having to configure it again.

powstatd.conf is templated, Ray, and the configuration information is in the config database. There's no need to keep that file. Just do:

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/powstatd.conf

after reinstalling powstatd.

But I expect there's no point in reinstalling powstatd - there's some other problem. It seems that "powstatd -t" is failing because it is already running. Marco doesn't say why he is running "powstatd -t". That's usually only required to determine the correct configuration of a new UPS.

Charlie