The gnome-software error has nothing to do with WeeWX. It would help if we saw a longer log. The one you included in your first post was too short.
Restart weewx, wait for a few reporting cycles, then post the log from the restart. On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 12:40 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/71556232-ac1b-43a3-939f-92504d1bd0afn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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