Thank you Tom, I will be back home tomorrow evening and planning a fresh install on a clean OS so I will document as I go along and feedback.
Ian On Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 10:34:41 PM UTC+1 Tom Keffer wrote: > It would help if we could see the exact commands you were running, In > particular, did you use an explicit path to a weewx.conf? What was in that > configuration file? > > Nothing has changed in the database file, but how it is found is different. > > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 1:03 PM Steeple Ian <steep...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have been trying out 5.0.0b1 to ensure that the weewx-`weather34 skin I >> maintain is compatible and have noticed an oddity when moving my existing >> weewx.sdb database file across. >> >> I installed using the pip installer method which was impressively smooth, >> ran for a while with the simulator, then installed the GW1000 Gateway >> driver. I then made a copy of my existing database file, stopped the new >> install and moved the copy across, restarted. >> >> On looking at the syslog, I noticed that there was an error writing to >> the database as the database file was reported as read only. At this point, >> I updated the ownership and permissions from the command line but got the >> same error report. I took another copy of the database file, same result. >> Eventually the only way I could get the database file into a writable >> condition was to use wee_database —drop-daily and —rebuild. >> >> I have never had a problem of copying a mature database file across to a >> new installation before. It was doubly baffling as I assume that it would >> not be possible to use —drop-daily and —rebuild if the the database file >> was truly read only. >> >> Ian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-development" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to weewx-developm...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/6f3eb1c5-a7d7-4086-a24a-05d941812511n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/6f3eb1c5-a7d7-4086-a24a-05d941812511n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-development+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/dff9849d-c965-467c-9e31-0538b7be8d4an%40googlegroups.com.