Can I put in a vote for this, too, having been bitten by the same thing on
a couple of occasions. I know we should all RTFM, and I usually do, but
altitudes are generally in (plural) feet or meters, and it is a very easy
slip to make!
On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 9:14:53 PM UTC-4 Ernest Jillson wrote:
> I decided to give this a whirl on a development pi zero I have. I made a
> typo in the setup program when selecting my elevation and units. I put
> "feet" instead of "foot". It didn't end well :).
>
> It might be worth either allowing foot/feet and/or mooter/meter (ok, I
> made that up. meter/meters) so dumbos like me can succeed :).
>
> Would it be possible to check the input and give an error message and a
> chance to retry instead of just failing?
>
> Again, it was my dumbassery that lead to the issue. Just thinking ahead
> for others that could potentially make the same mistake that I did. Here
> is the error message:
>
> Unpacking python3-weewx (5.0.0a25-1) ...
> Setting up python3-usb (1.0.2-2) ...
> Setting up python3-cheetah (3.2.6-1+b1) ...
> Setting up python3-configobj (5.0.6-4) ...
> Setting up python3-weewx (5.0.0a25-1) ...
> The configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf will be used.
> Processing configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/weewx/weectl.py", line 53, in <module>
> main()
> File "/usr/share/weewx/weectl.py", line 45, in main
> namespace.func(namespace)
> File "/usr/share/weewx/weectllib/parse_station.py", line 233, in
> reconfigure_s tation
> weecfg.station_config.station_reconfigure(config_path=namespace.config,
> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/station_config.py", line 102, in
> station_reconfi gure
> config_config(config_path, config_dict, dry_run=dry_run, *args,
> **kwargs)
> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/station_config.py", line 131, in
> config_config
> config_altitude(config_dict, altitude=altitude, no_prompt=no_prompt)
> File "/usr/share/weewx/weecfg/station_config.py", line 181, in
> config_altitude
> raise ValueError(f"Unknown altitude unit {unit}")
> ValueError: Unknown altitude unit feet
> dpkg: error processing package python3-weewx (--configure):
> installed python3-weewx package post-installation script subprocess
> returned er ror exit status 1
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> python3-weewx
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
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