Yes it 'used' to work fine on centos7 but sometimes you have to just get current. Docs can sometime lag a bit.
Just run a current os that is not well past it's end-of-life. On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 12:35:36 PM UTC-7 kheller2 wrote: > But the install guide and support guide for weewx says its supported on > C7. Moving to Linux8 would also take me to python3 and a few other > changes.. which is fine... but not what the docs state. > > On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 1:21:31 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > >> Yes - I can duplicate this in vagrant using a clean VM and centos-7 >> >> Since you have a clean install, I'd recommend you use almalinux-8 (a >> centos clone) which 'does' work ok if you run 'wee_config --reconfig" >> >> >> On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 8:11:59 AM UTC-7 kheller2 wrote: >> >>> I've poked through the list here and it doesn't seem like anyone has had >>> code issues since sometime in 2021. This is a virgin install of weewx >>> 4.7.0 on CentOS 7.9+latest updates. Weewxd works fine and is creating the >>> sample data that I can see with Apache httpd. >>> However, I can't reconfigure the thing. Pressing return to every stock >>> prompt (or changing anything) always results in the same thing: >>> >>> choose a driver [4]: >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_config", line 128, in <module> >>> main() >>> File "/usr/share/weewx/wee_config", line 122, in main >>> config_mgr.run(args, options) >>> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/config.py", line 125, in run >>> weecfg.modify_config(config_dict, stn_info, self.logger, >>> options.debug) >>> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/__init__.py", line 228, in modify_config >>> stanza = configobj.ConfigObj(stanza_text.splitlines()) >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1242, in >>> __init__ >>> self._load(infile, configspec) >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1302, in >>> _load >>> infile = self._handle_bom(infile) >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1457, in >>> _handle_bom >>> if not line.startswith(BOM): >>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: >>> ordinal not in range(128) >>> >>> [root@c7 ~]# locale >>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" >>> LC_ALL= >>> >>> There is nothing in /var/log/messages about the running of wee_config. >>> the conf file has debugging set. >>> >>> I'm new to this product and just trying to get it accept some changes. >>> >>> Thanks for help or pointing me in the right direction. >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/fc552eca-8166-4b2d-895b-dcfadc752f44n%40googlegroups.com.
