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
>>
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