Looks like shutting down the system and shutting down the UPS did the
trick (old school: first, reboot the bloody thing!):
fubar-trona-/home/trona: /sbin/apcaccess
APC : 001,036,0901
DATE : 2013-12-07 08:51:07 -0500
HOSTNAME : fubar
VERSION : 3.14.10 (13 September 2011) slackware
UPSNAME : fubar
CABLE : USB Cable
DRIVER : USB UPS Driver
UPSMODE : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: 2013-12-07 08:44:46 -0500
MODEL : Back-UPS RS 1000G
STATUS : ONLINE
LINEV : 119.0 Volts
LOADPCT : 18.0 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT : 47.3 Minutes
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME : 0 Seconds
SENSE : Medium
LOTRANS : 088.0 Volts
HITRANS : 139.0 Volts
ALARMDEL : 30 seconds
BATTV : 27.1 Volts
LASTXFER : No transfers since turnon
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT : 0 seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
SELFTEST : NO
STATFLAG : 0x07000008 Status Flag
SERIALNO : 3B1235X07353
BATTDATE : 2012-08-30
NOMINV : 120 Volts
NOMBATTV : 24.0 Volts
NOMPOWER : 600 Watts
FIRMWARE : 869.L3 .D USB FW:L3
END APC : 2013-12-07 08:51:16 -0500
Who know what evil little daemons do running around in the dark of
night, eh?
All is well that ends.
Thank you for your help.
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