I appreciate the help folks. I really do. I need to go to Linux8 (probably OEL8) to test a few things anyway...
On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 5:45:12 PM UTC-4 kheller2 wrote: > 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/660ce6d0-7781-4263-b6e2-f7ab680ec742n%40googlegroups.com.
