Electron Crashing after update to 2.21.0 with PM2

[pattanner92]

After updating my MagicMirror to version 2.21.0 it seems that Electron is crashing when using PM2 with the following error at crash (from pm2 logs):

0|mm  | /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGTERM

After the restart there seems to be a large number of errors thrown, though with a repeating pattern of the following:

0|mm       | [30696:1006/101030.900201:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(43)] renderergl_utils.cpp:2519 (CheckError): GL call functions->texStorage2D(ToGLenum(type), static_cast<GLsizei>(levels), texStorageFormat.internalFormat, size.width, size.height) generated error 0x00000505 in ../../third_party/angle/src/libANGLE/renderer/gl/TextureGL.cpp, setStorage:1052.
0|mm       | [30696:1006/101030.901706:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(811)] SharedContextState context lost via Skia OOM.
0|mm       | [30696:1006/101030.903252:ERROR:gpu_service_impl.cc(990)] Exiting GPU process because some drivers can't recover from errors. GPU process will restart shortly.
0|mm       | [19587:1006/101030.932806:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(329)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
0|mm       | [19587:1006/101030.940181:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(974)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=8704
0|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
0|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
0|mm       | MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

Now, if I run MagicMirror by using npm start while in the ~/MagicMirror directory, it seems to stay up. Hoping someone has some insight on this. I can easily manually start the system, but would rather not have to every time.

[sdetweil]

@pattanner92 how did you upgrade? manual or use my automated scripts?

which os is this?

show outout of

uname -a
lsb_release -a

[sdetweil]

@pattanner92 also add

export ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1

to the installers/mm.sh before the
npm start line

or wherever the mm comes from (in the pm2 logs output)
my setup script use the mm.sh in the installers folder

[pattanner92]

@sdetweil
Output of first command is:

Linux raspberrypi 5.10.103-v7+ #1529 SMP Tue Mar 8 12:21:37 GMT 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux

Output of second command is:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description:    Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:        10
Codename:       buster

I did so a manual upgrade. Though I typically do that without running into too many issues.

[pattanner92]

@sdetweil
Still seems to crash. This is how I have configured my pm2 start script:

cd ~/MagicMirror
export ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

[sdetweil]

@pattanner92 sorry two more

node -v
npm-v

u are running on 32 bit buster, which is ok
on some armv7l device, pi3, 4, or pi0w2

[pattanner92]

@sdetweil
node v16.16.0
npm v8.11.0

I am running on a Raspberry Pi B3+

[sdetweil]

@pattanner92 can u try running my upgrade script with force instead of apply

see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

[pattanner92]

@sdetweil
EDIT: I was digging while cleaning up pm2 so it didn’t display my old script. I noticed that the mm.sh script in ~/MagicMirror/installers was indeed missing export ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1. Adding that back to the script seems to keep it stable. Still wondering if this is an Electron version issue.

No dice. Here are the errors I am seeing in the logs - I pulled only the errors to see if I caught them all. Here is what I am seeing at the exit event:

0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.776458:ERROR:zygote_communication_linux.cc(275)] Failed to send GetTerminationStatus message to zygote
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.812741:ERROR:zygote_communication_linux.cc(275)] Failed to send GetTerminationStatus message to zygote
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.848727:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(470)] Network service crashed, restarting service.
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.880738:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(968)] GPU process launch failed: error_code=1002
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.897587:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(968)] GPU process launch failed: error_code=1002
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.917812:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(968)] GPU process launch failed: error_code=1002
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.942511:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(968)] GPU process launch failed: error_code=1002
0|mm  | [25978:1009/112505.959337:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(968)] GPU process launch failed: error_code=1002

And later in the restart process I saw these errors:

0|mm  | [09.10.2022 11:25.36.393] [ERROR] 
0|mm  | (node:26362) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
0|mm  | (Use `electron --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

I did go in and check for the line export ELECTRON_DISABLE_GPU=1 in the startup script mm.sh and it is there. I did have two startup scripts (one that was created before your script was a a thing) and made sure it was there in both as I wasn’t sure which pm2 was using. The original is out in the home folder - I made a backup and then ran your pm2 setup script. While it seemed to reconfigure pm2 to use the script in ~/MagicMirror/installers it still crashes. Figured I would try that in case something was walking over itself.

Could this be an Electron version issue?

[sdetweil]

@pattanner92 the buffer thing is a warning, but not our code. nothing we can do

the gpu errors are concerning, because u have gpu use turned off.

do u know what driver is being used in /boot/config.txt, like this

dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d