[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread matthew wall
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 10:20:26 AM UTC-5 Rick Hewett wrote: > 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./* into > /usr/s

[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread matthew wall
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 10:31:38 AM UTC-5 Rick Hewett wrote: The main issue seems to have been weewx not having write access to the web directory. That's now resolved. and the site is apparently alive again, and running 5.0.1. :) what is your web directory? the installer changes pe

[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread Rick M0LEP
On Thu 08 Feb Rick M0LEP wrote: > On Thu 08 Feb matthew wall wrote: >> 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 runn

[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread Rick M0LEP
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

[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread matthew wall
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. weewx 5 is the future, and we are trying to do it in a way so that it will still run on old h

[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread Rick M0LEP
On Thu 08 Feb 'Rory Gillies' via weewx-user wrote: > I nearly did that as well, I thought you had to add a new repository for > apt-get to pick up the new version, or is it in the original one now? Apparently it's in the main one now, at least for Debian bullseye... > I take it you don't have a b

[weewx-user] Re: Unplanned upgrade from 4.10.2 to 5.0.1 broke it all...

2024-02-07 Thread 'Rory Gillies' via weewx-user
I nearly did that as well, I thought you had to add a new repository for apt-get to pick up the new version, or is it in the original one now? I take it you don't have a backup of your working 4.10.2 install? I have a simple cron job that copies all the various WeeWx locations and files to the