On Thu 08 Feb matthew wall wrote:
> sorry about the hassles.  i still have some sites running weewx 3.9 
> because they just work and i just want the data, not the putzing 
> around with operating systems and drivers and firmware and whatever.

Yeah. I was intending to leave mine running 4.10 until I had time to 
sort out a smooth transition, but it got past me this morning... :/

> weewx 5 is the future, and we are trying to do it in a way so that it 
> will still run on old hardware with limited memory and storage.  it 
> turns out that part is pretty easy.  its the switch to 'best practice' 
> of running as non-root that has a zillion corner cases.

Right. Looks like some permissions and ownerships need changing but 
don't get changed (or obviously commented upon) during the upgrade 
process. I finally spotted a lot of "[Errno 13] Permission denied" 
messages in syslog...

If I can get 5.0.1 to work quickly, I'll go that way.

> anyway, in your case the reason your downgrade fails is because your 
> extensions were moved aside.  so when you downgrade, v4 cannot find them.  
> shut down weewx, copy them from /usr/share/weewx/user.XXXX/* into 
> /usr/share/weewx/user, then start weewx.

Thanks. Noted. What does 5.0.1 use instead?

> if you had problems running v5, please post the commands you made and 
> the resulting errors.

Working on it. Will do. Thanks for your help.

-- 
73, Rick, M0LEP

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