Comment 29 for bug 222761

2009/2/18 Steve Beattie <email address hidden>

> I reproduced the problem with the original version of nut in the hardy
> release, 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7, and confirmed that upgrading to the version
> in hardy-proposed, 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7.2, corrected this issue. I also
> verified that things work properly when:
>
> - upgrading via 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7 (release) -> 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7.1 (updates)
> -> 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7.2 (proposed)
> - installing 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7.1 (updates) and upgrading to
> 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7.2 (proposed)
> - freshly installing 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu7.2 (proposed)
>
> Note that I (still) don't have a ups, so all I was able to verify was
> that upsdrvctl started up enough to get to the point that it failed when
> trying to talk to the (non-existent) serial device.
>

the dummy-ups driver is there to help you!
configure ups.conf with the following:
[myups]
driver = dummy-ups
port = test.dev

Copy the below file as /etc/nut/test.dev and relaunch your tests:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut/trunk/data/evolution500.dev?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

cheers,
Arnaud