How to control UPS via nut rather than gnome-power-manager?

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I am trying to control my CyberPower 625VA UPS. From what I hear, this is best done via nut, rather than via the gnome-power-manager. See e.g. Monitoring a UPS with nut on Debian or Ubuntu Linux | Random Bits

But when I configure nut as described in that article, it fails:

$ sudo upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
Can't claim USB device [0764:0501]: could not detach kernel driver from interface 0: Operation not permitted
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)

I then noted that it was already being monitored by gnome-power-manager. The article (presumably now out-of-date) had said I would need to install nut-hal-drivers in order to monitor it with the Gnome Power Manager, so I hadn't even looked up there on the indicator panel.... But it wasn't being monitored very well (both the History and Statistics tabs were useless), and what I really want is programmatic control.

I do note that I can get some raw battery data via

lshal -u /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_764_501_noserial_if0_hiddev

But I'd prefer nut.

So how to I tell the power manager to NOT monitor the UPS, so nut will (presumably)?

FWIW, this situation is the same on both maverick and precise, on laptops in both cases.

This question appears to be abandoned and unanswered, could you perhaps add more detail to your question? If this question no longer applies then you can either delete it or answer it yourself if you've solved the problem. Thanks! — Eric Carvalho, Mar 14 '13 at 13:14
@AShelly What release are you running? What are your symptoms? — nealmcb, Jun 18 '14 at 04:41
@nealmcb has this problem been solved or are you no longer on maverick or precise and the problem went away on its own? — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Jul 17 '17 at 03:42
Thanks for the followup, @WinEunuuchs2Unix. I'm not using that UPS any more, so can't test to see if it is still there. — nealmcb, Jul 17 '17 at 15:33
I'll vote to close it as not reproducible then. Thanks for letting me know. — WinEunuuchs2Unix, Jul 17 '17 at 17:38

How to control UPS via nut rather than gnome-power-manager?

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