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 -- 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/4757.65c39fb3.1b7ba%40hewett.org.
