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I have just installed an APC CS 650 UPS on mageia 2. The apcupsd 3.14.10 64bit rpm is installed and I get the following results --

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cat /proc/bus/usb/devices


T:  Bus=07 Lev=02 Prnt=06 Port=02 Cnt=02 Dev#= 10 Spd=1.5  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=051d ProdID=0002 Rev= 0.06
S:  Manufacturer=American Power Conversion
S:  Product=Back-UPS CS 650 FW:817.v9.I USB FW:v9
S:  SerialNumber=4B1215P08180 
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbhid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   6 Ivl=100ms

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ls -l /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 25 15:06 hub/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 25 15:06 usb/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 25 15:06 usbfs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 25 15:06 usbhid/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 25 15:06 usb-storage/


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ls -al /dev/usb/

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     80 Nov 25 15:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root   4160 Nov 25 15:09 ../
crw-------  1 root root 180, 0 Nov 25 15:08 hiddev0
crw-------  1 root root 180, 1 Nov 25 15:09 hiddev1

So the UPS is being seen on its usb i/f but turning mains power off fails to cause a shutdown, so obviously I need to do some configuration, any assistance will be gratefully received.

Update After another reboot I now get a message "Power Failure Running on Battery" but it still will not shut down.

Are you sure apcupsd is running? Have you checked it in MCC->System->Services? Maybe it's not running..!

apcupsd is running

I am not sure but what is the entry of pf in /etc/inittab.

Maybe it's managed by systemd now!

Sorry..just speculating

/etc/inittab pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

Have you tried to execute that manually? AFAIR shutdown only supports -F option. Also, is there something in the logs when you disconnect mains power from the UPS?

Thanks doktor500
This was in the log -

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Nov 27 21:33:16 localhost apcupsd[1430]: Power failure.
Nov 27 21:33:22 localhost apcupsd[1430]: Running on UPS batteries.
Nov 27 21:33:22 localhost wall[3553]: wall: user root broadcasted 1 lines (55 chars)


I not quite sure how to run it manually?

As root issue:

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/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

and wait if the system shuts down after 2 minutes.

I tried that and got the following -

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[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"
Unknown option code f
[root@localhost ~]#


Removing the -f option worked shutting down o/k now just to edit inittab to remove it.

UPDATE- Unfortunately editing inittab failed to work any more idea's?

Please, try to provide more details in general. What did you change or try to change, to what did you change it, and how did it fail, with what error message?
What does inittab currently contain?

By accident I found out that the UPS was shutting the system down. I had to answer the phone and on my return the system was shutdown.
In /var/log/apcupsd.events was the following -

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2012-11-29 22:42:52 +0000  Power failure.
2012-11-29 22:42:58 +0000  Running on UPS batteries.
2012-11-29 22:50:06 +0000  Reached remaining time percentage limit on batteries.
2012-11-29 22:50:06 +0000  Initiating system shutdown!
2012-11-29 22:50:06 +0000  User logins prohibited
2012-11-29 22:50:06 +0000  apcupsd exiting, signal 15
2012-11-29 22:50:06 +0000  apcupsd shutdown succeeded


This shutdown had taken 8 minutes approx to happen whereas before I was giving up after 4 minutes.
In /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf was -

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# If during a power failure, the UPS has run on batteries for TIMEOUT
# many seconds or longer, apcupsd will initiate a system shutdown.
# A value of 0 disables this timer.
#
#  Note, if you have a Smart UPS, you will most likely want to disable
#    this timer by setting it to zero. That way, you UPS will continue
#    on batteries until either the % charge remaing drops to or below BATTERYLEVEL,
#    or the remaining battery runtime drops to or below MINUTES.  Of course,
#    if you are testing, setting this to 60 causes a quick system shutdown
#    if you pull the power plug.
#  If you have an older dumb UPS, you will want to set this to less than
#    the time you know you can run on batteries.
TIMEOUT 0


Changing this to -

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# If during a power failure, the UPS has run on batteries for TIMEOUT
# many seconds or longer, apcupsd will initiate a system shutdown.
# A value of 0 disables this timer.
#
#  Note, if you have a Smart UPS, you will most likely want to disable
#    this timer by setting it to zero. That way, you UPS will continue
#    on batteries until either the % charge remaing drops to or below BATTERYLEVEL,
#    or the remaining battery runtime drops to or below MINUTES.  Of course,
#    if you are testing, setting this to 60 causes a quick system shutdown
#    if you pull the power plug.
#  If you have an older dumb UPS, you will want to set this to less than
#    the time you know you can run on batteries.
TIMEOUT 180


Now testing mains failure again in /var/log/apcupsd.events

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2012-11-30 14:45:44 +0000  Power failure.
2012-11-30 14:45:50 +0000  Running on UPS batteries.
2012-11-30 14:48:51 +0000  Reached run time limit on batteries.
2012-11-30 14:48:51 +0000  Initiating system shutdown!
2012-11-30 14:48:51 +0000  User logins prohibited
2012-11-30 14:48:52 +0000  apcupsd exiting, signal 15
2012-11-30 14:48:52 +0000  apcupsd shutdown succeeded


It now shutsdown in 3 minutes and I now consider the problem solved. Thanks to everybody who tried to help.