About staying current -- so I should be testing this on RHEL 9 beta? LOL
On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 3:58:54 PM UTC-4 vince wrote: > 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/ba400f4b-13d1-43d2-9c1a-26cc46f3852fn%40googlegroups.com.
