Thanks for the reply. Yes, I do get those communication errors which corrupt the database by setting a date/time in the future and prevents future entries to the database. I set up a special automated routine to check for erroneous future times in weewx.sdb and then fix it by stopping weeserv, deleting the latest entry in the database, and restarting weeserv. This works well for my needs.
Regarding the current problem, if all was well I should be getting HTML files produced. I went back and looked at yesterday's syslog (syslog.1) and found this error that occurred right after the last good HTML was created. I'm sure this has something to do with it but not sure what, right now. This was right when the update was applied. My last HTML update was at 9:20 am. * Dec 9 09:20:57 WeewxWeatherServer gnome-software[2505]: failed to rescan: Failed to parse /usr/share/appdata/google-chrome.appdata.xml.dpkg-new file: cannot process file of type text/html Dec 9 09:20:57 WeewxWeatherServer gnome-software[2505]: failed to rescan: Failed to parse /usr/share/appdata/google-chrome.appdata.xml.dpkg-tmp file: cannot process file of type text/html* Earlier in the same syslog file I find entries like this indicating that the html files are made and are uploaded immediately afterwards: * Dec 9 09:12:16 WeewxWeatherServer weewx[820]: cheetahgenerator: using search list ['weewx.cheetahgenerator.Almanac', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Station', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Current', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Stats', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.UnitInfo', 'weewx.cheetahgenerator.Extras'] Dec 9 09:12:17 WeewxWeatherServer weewx[820]: cheetahgenerator: Generated 8 files for report SeasonsReport in 0.53 seconds* * Dec 9 09:12:22 WeewxWeatherServer weewx[820]: ftpupload: Uploaded file /index.html* All these lines stopped at 9:20 am yesterday. I hope this helps. Thanks, Ken On Friday, December 10, 2021 at 12:56:47 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > It looks like your Vantage had a communications error, which is not > unusual. WeeWX normally recovers from these, but you cut the log off before > we could see what happened. > > Did WeeWX recover? > > I really doubt there's anything wrong with your installation. > > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:43 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Well, I seem to have made a mess. I'm currently running Ubuntu 18.04.6, >> Weewx v. 4.5.1 (according to the weewx.conf file) with a Vantage Pro2. >> Yesterday, I saw one of those routine update messages on my desktop and >> elected to accept them. After a bit the update stopped and warned me if I >> wanted to update /etc/weewx/weewx.conf with values that appeared to be >> defaults, in other words losing all my local information. That alarmed me >> and so I said no and let it continue. Now I'm beginning to think that >> broke the system by possibly leaving me with a .conf file that may be >> invalid for any new updates to the program. I confirmed that my files in >> /usr/share/weewx were indeed updated with new time stamps. >> >> After that point the creation of HTML files ceased. I no longer see the >> HTML messages in the log so it seems to be not even trying to create them. >> The database update is working as confirmed through sqlite3. >> >> So, now I'm wondering how to fix this. Is it something easy to do by >> modifying weewx.conf or do I need to start over completely with a new >> build. My syslog (grep'ed for weewx) after a new start follows. I don't >> know how to get the version of the installed software other than what is >> reported in weewx.conf. >> >> Thanks for any assistance. >> >> Ken >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/93de492d-1bbb-4782-98bb-34261b54711fn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/93de492d-1bbb-4782-98bb-34261b54711fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/71556232-ac1b-43a3-939f-92504d1bd0afn%40googlegroups.com.
