In my previous post I thought that it would be better to send the errors
via an image, however, I am not sure that was the best way. In any event,
here are the errors from the output of "systemctl status weewx":
root@zeebytes:/etc/weewx# systemctl status weewx
● weewx.service - LSB: weewx weather system
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/weewx; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Wed 2021-01-27 14:34:43 EST; 10s ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 31379 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/weewx start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** self.loadServices(config_dict)
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", lin
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** obj = weeutil.weeutil.get_object(svc)(self
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/weeutil/weeutil.py",
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** mod = __import__(module)
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** File "/usr/share/weewx/user/weather34.py", l
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** except Exception, e:
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** ^
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Jan 27 14:34:43 zeebytes.org python3[31396]: weewx[31396] CRITICAL
__main__: **** Exiting.
Please reply with any suggestions.
Thanks,
Gordon Dickens
On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 2:44:40 PM UTC-5 Gordon Dickens wrote:
> Thanks to Tom, Rainer and Colin for your prompt replies!
>
> I followed the instructions verbatim in the Debian guide as Tom
> suggested. Afterwards, I get the following dialog with the command
> "systemctl status weewx":
> [image: weewx_status_errors.png]
>
> I also tried to reinstall with the command "apt --reinstall install
> weewx" but the results were the same.
>
> Tom, where did I go wrong and what do you recommend?
>
> I made a complete system backup before I attempted the migration. So, if I
> need to, I can revert to the Python2 version but I would rather fix it now.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
>
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 5:17:17 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Yes, that will work, but it also assumes that all the prerequisites have
>> been installed. The Python 3 prereqs are different from Python 2.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:12 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I remember I had to change /etc/default/weewx it to tell Weewx to start
>>> with Python3
>>>
>>> WEEWX_PYTHON=python2 <== change to python3
>>>
>>> WEEWX_BINDIR=/usr/share/weewx
>>>
>>> WEEWX_BIN=/usr/bin/weewxd
>>>
>>> WEEWX_CFG=/etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 11:04, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Easiest is to just follow the install directions in the Debian guide
>>>> <http://www.weewx.com/docs/debian.htm>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *wget -qO - https://weewx.com/apt/weewx-python3.list
>>>> <https://weewx.com/apt/weewx-python3.list> | sudo tee
>>>> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/weewx.listsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install
>>>> weewx*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:58 PM Gordon Dickens <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How do I make weewx use python3 instead of python2? I initially
>>>>> installed weewx on Debian using the Debian package over a year ago and it
>>>>> was originally setup to use python2. I recently upgraded to weewx 4.3.0
>>>>> with the Belchertown skin version 1.2 and so I want to also upgrade to
>>>>> python3. The normal way to change default packages in Debian is with
>>>>> the
>>>>> update-alternatives command, however, when I set python3 as the default,
>>>>> weewx continues to use python2 as seen from the command, "ps aux | grep
>>>>> weewx" whose output contains:
>>>>>
>>>>> python2 /usr/share/weewx/weewxd --daemon --pidfile=/var/run/weewx.pid
>>>>> /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> So, the service is started with python2. How do I change the weewx
>>>>> service to use python3?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Gordon
>>>>>
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