Thank you for all of the detailed information! You were correct on the
first part, it was located in /etc. I'm documenting for others to find:
sudo systemctl status weewx
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of
weewx.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl da>
× weewx.service - weewx weather system
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/weewx.service; enabled; preset:
enabled)
To invalidate that file, I just performed a gzip on the old file: gzip
/etc/systemd/system/weewx.service.
Then reloaded the services config: sudo systemctl daemon-reload
The new /lib service file is now being used, but resulted in the same error:
sudo systemctl status weewx
× weewx.service - WeeWX
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/weewx.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2024-12-30 02:59:01 CST;
7h ago
The way around this was needing to do a start first:
sudo systemctl start weewx
Which shows valid output in the logs:
... DEBUG weewx.drivers.vantage: Successfully woke up Vantage console ...
And status now works correctly too:
systemctl status weewx
● weewx.service - WeeWX
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/weewx.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2024-12-30 10:07:22 CST; 2min 10s
ago
Docs: https://weewx.com/docs
......
Thank you so much for your assistance!
On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 3:23:04 PM UTC-6 Tom Keffer wrote:
> I feel your pain. Debugging a failed systemd start can be difficult.
> Things to try:
>
> 1. Make sure you are using the service file that you think you are using.
> V5 installs in /lib/systemd/system/weewx.service. You may have another one
> in /etc/systemd/system/weewx.service.
>
> 2. Along the same lines, what does "systemctl status weewx" show? It
> should show you using the service file /lib/systemd/system/weewx.service.
>
> 3. Make sure your service file is from V5, and not from your
> old installation. It will be in /lib/systemd/system/weewx.service. It
> should look something like this:
>
> [Unit]
>
> Description=WeeWX
>
> Documentation=https://weewx.com/docs
>
> Requires=time-sync.target
>
> After=time-sync.target
>
> Wants=network-online.target
>
> After=network-online.target
>
>
> [Service]
>
> ExecStart=weewxd /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>
> StandardOutput=null
>
> StandardError=journal+console
>
> RuntimeDirectory=weewx
>
> RuntimeDirectoryMode=775
>
> User=weewx
>
> Group=weewx
>
>
> [Install]
>
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
> 4. Make sure your unit file is valid:
>
> sudo systemd-analyze verify weewx.service
>
>
> 5. Double check that there isn't anything useful in the system log:
>
> sudo journalctl -u weewx
>
>
> If none of that works, come back here with the results of the above.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 10:33 AM Tony Perkins <tonyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all. My existing longtime weewx installation on Ubuntu was
>> upgraded to version 5.0.1 after an OS upgrade. I've gotten parts of it
>> working, but the service doesn't appear to start using the new systemctl
>> method.
>>
>> I am using a serial device from a Vantage 2 Pro console. I have added
>> weewx to the dialout group for the /dev/ttyS0 device. I can successfully
>> start weewxd under the weewx user using this command: sudo runuser -u
>> weewx weewxd
>>
>> However using 'sudo systemctl start weewx' with start, status, or
>> restart results in an error (stop produces no output). Only the 3 lines
>> below are logged to syslog:
>> Started weewx.service - weewx weather system.
>> weewx.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
>> weewx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
>>
>> I have 'debug = 1' in my /etc/weewx/weewx.conf file.
>> Serial device: crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Dec 29 12:06 /dev/ttyS0
>> dialout group members:
>> getent group dialout
>> dialout:x:20:weewx
>>
>> I'm not sure what the next step is here. There's a disconnect somewhere
>> between the service setup and running it directly, and I'd appreciate any
>> help. Thank you!
>>
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