Apcupsd crashes

I am trying to run apcupsd, but it will not retain contact the UPS

root@meow:/home/ethan/UPS/gapcmon-0.8.9# /etc/init.d/apcupsd start 
Starting UPS power management: 
A copy of the daemon is still running.  If you just stopped it,
please wait about 5 seconds for it to shut down.
root@meow:/home/ethan/UPS/gapcmon-0.8.9# /etc/init.d/apcupsd stop
Stopping UPS power management: apcupsd.
root@meow:/home/ethan/UPS/gapcmon-0.8.9# /etc/init.d/apcupsd start 
Starting UPS power management: apcupsd.
root@meow:/home/ethan/UPS/gapcmon-0.8.9# apcaccess status
APC      : 001,017,0435
DATE     : 2014-11-13 22:26:39 -0500  
HOSTNAME : meow
VERSION  : 3.14.12 (29 March 2014) debian
CABLE    : Custom Cable Smart
DRIVER   : APC Smart UPS (any)
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
STARTTIME: 2014-11-13 22:26:36 -0500  
STATUS   : COMMLOST 
MBATTCHG : 5 Percent
MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes
MAXTIME  : 0 Seconds
NUMXFERS : 0
TONBATT  : 0 Seconds
CUMONBATT: 0 Seconds
XOFFBATT : N/A
STATFLAG : 0x05000100
END APC  : 2014-11-13 22:26:39 -0500  
                                                                               
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Warning communications lost with UPS