[weewx-user] Weewx not working after update

Hi, My weewx has been running great for a couple of years on my ubuntu server 14.04LTS and so I thought it was time to update the owfs to 3.1p4 and weewx to 3.6.2. The updates went fairly swimmingly but when I try and start weewx, I get this mess in the syslog:- Nov 27 12:31:15 localhost

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx not working after update

as I am aware. David On 27/11/2016 17:26, mwall wrote: On Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 12:13:25 PM UTC-5, David Johns wrote: Nov 27 12:31:15 localhost weewx[23212]: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ow/*init*.py", line 33, in Nov 27 12:31:15 localhost w

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx not working after update

in get_float Nov 27 18:05:40 localhost weewx[27915]: v = float(sv) Nov 27 18:05:40 localhost weewx[27915]: ValueError: could not convert string to float: Nov 27 18:05:40 localhost weewx[27915]: Exiting. David On 27/11/2016 18:04, mwall wrote: On Sunday, Novembe

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx not working after update

29716]: Exiting. David On 27/11/2016 19:44, mwall wrote: On Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 1:55:16 PM UTC-5, David Johns wrote: Hi, Ok. There is no such directory as etc/defaults on this version of ubuntu. So I have added the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the weewx file in /etc

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx not working after update

Hi, /etc/init.d/weewx #! /bin/sh # Author: Tom Keffer # Startup script for Debian derivatives # # the skeleton script in debian 6 does not work properly in package scripts. # the return/exit codes cause {pre|post}{inst|rm} to fail regardless of the # script completion status.

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx not working after update

7 18:49:52 localhost weewx[28868]: owfs: Failed to get sensor data for barometer (gauge): could not convert string to float: But, I need weewx to run as a service as it did before. David On 27/11/2016 18:24, mwall wrote: On Sunday, November 27, 2016 at 1:12:04 PM UTC-5, David Johns wrote:

Re: [weewx-user] Re: Weewx not working after update

Thanks M.. That has sorted Weewx from crashing. I also did have the unrecoverable error below but I have corrected that by comparing my config with weewx.conf.dist. I found I had some old template tags from when I was messing with different templates months ago. No idea why they would