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kusznir · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

Hello all:

I was running wview 1.7.8 on Gentoo, and decided to upgrade to the 2.0.0 release. So far, its been kinda rocky, but I finally have the binaries compiled and installed, and I've re-configed my installation with the wvconfig script. When I start wview and look at the logs, it seems to start, but fails to generate web pages or insert any data into my mysql db, and doesn't appear to be sending to wunderground.

Here are the log messages:

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

You might want to read the ChangeLog between 1.7.8 and 2.0.0 to see if you need to obtain any new files from the distro, etc....

In this case:

kusznir · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

Hi:

The database was still the origional, untouched one created by wview 1.7.8. Reguardless, I deleted it and let wviewsqld recreate it. Even after that, and after it inserted 6,253 rows, it is now spouting the same error again:

kusznir · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

Hi again:

I did more DB looking and peaking and found that it didn't get past Dec 2004 data before stopping any more inserts.

I copied about 9 months of weatherlink archive files from our PC when I initially installed wview, and dec 04 is the first of them.

I moved that file (2004-12.wlk) somewhere else and restarted wviewsqld. This time it got a day and 10 hours (e.g, Jan 2, 2005 10am) before dying with the same message.

These archive files were created with Weatherlink for the PC.

--Jim

kusznir · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

I managed to get my wview installation working, but I can't import the majority of my .wlk archives generated by weatherlink for pc.

I've posted a copy of one of my troublesome .wlk files at:

http://www.kusznir.net/2005-01.wlk
this file dies Jan 2 at around 10:40am with the errors previously posted.

The solution to the noaa problems invovled deleting /var/wview/noaa/noaa.dat and letting it recreate it.

--Jim
http://weather.kusznir.net

kusznir · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

Aparently I posted too soon.

My NOAA problems are back. It seems that htmld is somehow croupting the file, then entering an error state as a result.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!
--Jim

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

Nothing has changed with the NOAA generation - it is exactly the same. So you have something wierd going on like multiple copies of wview daemons running, etc. The UM Troubleshooting section on inspecting your wview daemons may be helpful there...

You should create your own start/stop script - just take the one in the distro closest to gentoo (FreeBSD might actually be a good generic choice) and modify the paths for your init.d environment. Starting and stopping by hand is a recipe for straggling daemons, etc.

Did 1.7.8 read your old WLK files properly? Other than the database insertions moving to a background process, that logic did not change either. You might try to turn off the SQL storage long enough to see if it reads the WLK files OK without it enabled...

It almost sounds like you are having some disk access errors, bad sectors, etc. Too many problems with things that haven't changed at all.

Oh, and did you upgrade radlib?

Let us know what you find,
Mark

kusznir · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

The NOAA generation problems aparently happen about half the time I kill htmlgend and restart it, and I now recall running into a similar problem with 1.7.8; I had forgotten the solution initially.

I looked at it, and found that gentoo's start-stop scripts are quite a bit different than the others, espicially their functions they use. I will work on one and send it to you when its done, but that's probably a half-day project.

I just verified that my "croupt" archive files were read fine by htmlgend, as my 365day graphs include that data. Its just wviewsqld that doesn't like them. I noticed in my sql db that the last few enteries before it dies have temperature readings in the range of -3000 (minus 3 thousand). My yearly graphs don't show any such problems.

I also found that its 4 files I have problems with: Dec '04 through Febr '05. All my other archives were properly read in by all parts of wview and added to my mysql db.

Oh, and I did upgrade radlib to 2.6.1.

Thanks for your help!