Unable to set locale 'en': unsupported locale setting.

[Greg from Oz]

Hi,

I have spent a few days trying to work this out.

I might have to reinstall a fresh weewx system but I want to avoid that if possible.

What I have done is installed the fuzzy-archer skin and have that running (sort of) as it updates the website with the weather data but it comes up with this error.

Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: Evaluation of template /opt/weewx/weewx-data/skins/Bootstrap/history.html.tmpl failed.
Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Ignoring template /opt/weewx/weewx-data/skins/Bootstrap/history.html.tmpl
Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** To debug, try inserting '#errorCatcher Echo' at top of template
Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: Evaluation of template /opt/weewx/weewx-data/skins/Bootstrap/about.html.tmpl failed.
Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Ignoring template /opt/weewx/weewx-data/skins/Bootstrap/about.html.tmpl
Oct 25 12:21:58 moonbi weectl[19313]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'

I have tried to change the lang/en.conf file in the Bootstrap directory. Failed.

Change the locale on the server. Failed.

Added Environment=LANG=en_AU.utf8 to systemd weewx service. Failed.

Looked at weewx documentation. Tried a few things there. Failed.

I just cannot work out why it is doing this error.

I want to change menus on the web page but because of this locale problem it won't let me do that either.

Anyone have any ideas about this one?

Thanks in advance. I hope it is something simple.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Hi,

If it helps any, locale is a command.

On my openSUSE/Tumbleweed installation, we see that locale is installed in /usr/bin:

$ which locale 
/usr/bin/locale

I am going to guess that if you type which locale, the program is not installed.  If it is not, you will want to use your package manager to install it.

Cheers!

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[Greg from Oz]

I forgot to say I am running weewx 5.2.0 in a venv environment.

[Greg from Oz]

locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_AU.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

No, it is there. It is probably not in the pip environment? I am not a programmer. :)

[Pablo Sanchez]

My bad.

Using GAI, it says that it may be due to python3 not having the locale library installed.

Try going to chatgpt.com and entering the error string: weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'

Cheers!

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[Greg from Oz]

I just did:

pip install locales ( I was trying pip install locale (without the s))!!!!!!! Now it tells me when weewx starts I have a locale.

But I am still getting the same error. I have restarted weewx.

Changed lang/en.conf to use AU but still get the error.

[Pablo Sanchez]

After the install, please remember to recreate venv. ;)

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[Greg from Oz]

How do I do that?

I just did a quick search but it doesn't say how to recreate only to create venv.

Thanks

[Pablo Sanchez]

Assuming you followed the excellent documentation:

First, either delete or rename ~/weewx-venv 

Then: 

# Create the virtual environment

python3 -m venv ~/weewx-venv

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[Greg Reive]

But won't that remove weewx and all the pip installs including locale?

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[Greg from Oz]

Bit more info:

sudo journalctl -f | grep locale
Oct 25 14:03:15 moonbi weectl[39599]: DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Running generators for report 'StandardReport' in directory '/opt/weewx/weewx-data/skins/Bootstrap' with locale 'en_AU.UTF-8'
Oct 25 14:03:21 moonbi weectl[39599]: DEBUG user.historygenerator: locale: No historygenerator.py specific labels found
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: ERROR weewx.cheetahgenerator: **** Reason: cannot find 'locale'
Oct 25 14:03:22 moonbi weectl[39599]: DEBUG weewx.reportengine: Running generators for report 'SteelSeries' in directory '/opt/weewx/weewx-data/skins/ss' with locale 'en_AU.UTF-8'

[Greg from Oz]

I ended up starting all over again and it seems to be working now.

It would be nice to know why it didn't work before.

Maybe it is  because I had so much old stuff in the set up?