Comment 1 for bug 341554

Same here for 2 ubuntu installations running 10.04. It did sent me warnings by email when we had a power outage last week, which ended in the FATAL ERROR message as well (the same)... but requesting status dosent work...

root@host2:~# uname -a
Linux host2 2.6.24-27-server #1 SMP Wed Mar 24 11:32:39 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@host2:~# /etc/init.d/apcupsd status
FATAL ERROR in apcaccess.c at line 51

root@host2:~# /etc/init.d/apcupsd restart
Stopping UPS power management: apcupsd.
Starting UPS power management: apcupsd.

root@host2:~# /etc/init.d/apcupsd status
FATAL ERROR in apcaccess.c at line 51

root@host2:~# apcaccess status
FATAL ERROR in apcaccess.c at line 51

root@host2:~# dpkg-query -s apcupsd
Package: apcupsd
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 908
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.14.2-1build1
Provides: ups-monitor
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libsnmp15 (>= 5.4.1~dfsg), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-1), libwrap0