4.10.1 Error 'driver'

[Little Old Me]

After upgrading to version 4.10.1 this error is occurring originally installed from the apt repository on Ubuntu 22.04.

INFO __main__: Initializing weewx version 4.10.1
INFO __main__: Using Python 3.10.6 (main, Nov 14 2022, 16:10:14) [GCC 11.3.0]
INFO __main__: Located at /bin/python3
INFO __main__: Platform Linux-5.15.0-58-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
INFO __main__: Locale is 'en_US.UTF-8'
INFO __main__: Using configuration file /etc/weewx/weewx.conf
INFO __main__: Debug is 1
INFO __main__: PID file is /var/run/weewx.pid
DEBUG __main__: Initializing engine
CRITICAL __main__: Caught unrecoverable exception:
CRITICAL __main__:     ****  'driver'
CRITICAL __main__:     ****  Traceback (most recent call last):
CRITICAL __main__:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewxd", line 148, in main
CRITICAL __main__:     ****      engine = weewx.engine.StdEngine(config_dict)
CRITICAL __main__:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 81, in __init__
CRITICAL __main__:     ****      self.setupStation(config_dict)
CRITICAL __main__:     ****    File "/usr/share/weewx/weewx/engine.py", line 103, in setupStation
CRITICAL __main__:     ****      driver = config_dict[station_type]['driver']
CRITICAL __main__:     ****    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 554, in __getitem__
CRITICAL __main__:     ****      val = dict.__getitem__(self, key)
CRITICAL __main__:     ****  KeyError: 'driver'
CRITICAL __main__:     ****  Exiting.
    ...done.
Started LSB: weewx weather system.

[Tom Keffer]

Do you recall the exact steps you took when you upgraded? When the installer asked whether to keep your old config file or use a new one, which did you choose?

Also, take a look in /etc/weewx. Are there multiple versions of weewx.conf? Post the results of

ls -l /etc/weewx

Compare them. One of them may be your old config file.

If all else fails, you can try

wee_config --reconfigure

to fix the file you have.

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[Little Old Me]

Thanks for the reply I had it replace the weewx.conf. I didn't have much time for anything today so i just ran reconfigure and then copied the sensors back over looks like all is well right now I'll be able to take a closer look a bit later.

[matthew wall]

On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 9:37:01 PM UTC-5 little...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks for the reply I had it replace the weewx.conf. I didn't have much time for anything today so 

> i just ran reconfigure and then copied the sensors back over looks like all is well right now I'll be 

> able to take a closer look a bit later.

the update process should have left two copies of your weewx.conf file in /etc/weewx.  one is the weewx.conf file from *before* you did the update, and the other is the weewx.conf file from *after* the update.  there could be other weewx.conf files in there too, from previous updates.  there will be only one called 'weewx.conf' - the others will have timestamp or other extensions to indicate where they came from.

it would be helpful to see the weewx.conf as modified by the update process, and the weewx.conf file from before the update process.

it would also help to see any messages in your syslog (/var/log/syslog) from when you did the weewx update.  these will probably have 'apt' or 'dpkg' as the process name.

m