Cumulus Support

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Bad luck to me today

There was a mains power failure... and after restarting the PC and Cumulus... no actual figures from the station... just some cumulative ones.

Then I found about the new release (I was using 1.8.2 - 460) and I took it.
But unsuccesfully, as there was a failure:

"An error occurred while trying to replace the existing file: DeleteFile failed; Code 5"
"Access denied"

Now... what to do?

EasyWeather (version 3.0) seems to be OK

Your help is HIGHLY appreciated

Joe Silva / Portugal

zehelmer wrote:"An error occurred while trying to replace the existing file: DeleteFile failed; Code 5"
"Access denied"

Where do you see this error? Is it a bug report from Cumulus when you start it?

Steve

Hi, Steve

It appeared at the installation process of latest version... then I opted for "Abort" and it reverted to previous situation

Apparently, after the "Downloading data" there is no communication with the base station (PCE-FWS 20)... What could it be

Thanks

joe

I don't know why the installation is failing, I haven't seen anything like that before. It looks like a permissions failure. Or perhaps Cumulus is still running - I think that would cause that kind of error, trying to upgrade a program while it's still running. If the program has closed, there still may be a process running, look in the task manager.

It would be best if you can upgrade to the latest version as it may well fix your problem with downloading from the station.

Steve

Hi, Steve

That was it... it was still running

The new upgrade went on at once

Now the Error red pilot is blinking on the display Is it a serious question?

Thank you

joe

zehelmer wrote:Now the Error red pilot is blinking on the display Is it a serious question?

If you click on the red light it will show you the errors, they are normally upload errors. You would expect to get them from time to time, that's not a problem. If you get a lot it's worth investigating. Do you upload to Wunderground? I've been getting a few timeouts with them recently.

Steve

I got it: "Ignoring dubious relative pressure reading, using offset of zero"


Yes: http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... IPORTUGA23

Best regards

joe

zehelmer wrote:I got it: "Ignoring dubious relative pressure reading, using offset of zero"

This is an error reading the first block of data at startup. Can you attach the file with that message, please?

Restarting Cumulus may well fix it.

Steve

Where can I find that file?

The Error message doesn't allow me to copy it.

It's only referenced to the stamp date: 05-01-2009 3:17:03

joe

Sorry, I lost track of what we were talking about - you saw that message when you clicked on the red LED, I'd forgotten that I'd added that message there. It will also be one of the files in the Diags folder.

Did you restart, and did the error go away?

Steve

Just had this error when installing 958
The problem was that Cumulus was not shutting down correctly prior to the install and it was necessary to "End Task" in Task Manager of Windows XP.
Probably a reboot would have fixed the problem as well.
Maybe due to the fact that the computer runs continuously and reboots seldom.

All happy now.

It does try to wait for all the threads to terminate before closing the 'Cumulus is closing' window, but you may have had some sort of problem which caused one of the threads to hang. I'd have thought you would have noticed part it of had stopped working, though.

Tried restarting and closing a couple of times but something was definitelypreventing it closing completely. No biggie though. Just posted as help to others if they have the problem