MagicMirror won't run after restart

sdetweil

@SymmetriC where is that image from?

ssh, a terminal window on the pi?

when u boot do u see the pi desktop?

SymmetriC

@sdetweil image is from the orangePi cmd terminal. When I restarted, everything came up as normal, but when I try to start MagicMirror in the terminal it just hangs up and never starts. Wish it would at least give me some kind of error or something.

sdetweil

@SymmetriC ok, try this

ctrl-c to stop that
cd ~/MagicMirror
rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json
npm install --omit=dev --no-audit --no-fund 
npm start

SymmetriC

@sdetweil Thanks for your quick reply!
Ran what you said and got this:

Not sure what it means (researching now), but at least I have an error finally! haha

sdetweil

@SymmetriC typo, should be --no-audit

SymmetriC

@sdetweil thanks for catching the typo.
Ran it again correctly this time; here’s what I have:

Still hung up trying to launch MM. I’m lost

sdetweil

@SymmetriC well then…

instead of npm start, try server only

npm run server
which takes electron out of the mix

sdetweil

@SymmetriC did u try server only?

I really have no idea what could be wrong.

code reinstall leads to the same problem

unless the DISPLAY env variable is wrong

in the terminal window do

echo $DISPLAY

but the other messages should come out before electron is started

SymmetriC

@sdetweil Appreciate the follow-up. Sorry for my radio silence; replied to the post shortly after your response on Sunday, but guess I wasn’t logged in so it got rejected. Here’s an update:
Started MM in npm run server mode, but MMM-EveryNews still wouldn’t load. Great idea though on starting in server to bypass ‘electron’ :thumbs_up: Still dumbfounded why ‘electron’ was having such a hard time.

Decided I was done messing with the OrangePi and loaded up a spare RaspberryPi 3 I had laying around. The Pi I was running the MM on was an OrangePi zero2, which is a pretty nice piece of hardware if you are having a hard time finding a good priced RaspberryPi, but I think there may be some driver or OS issues, since it tries to replicate the RaspberryPi OS. :man_shrugging:

Loaded up the RaspberryPi with Raspbian, then reloaded all the same MM modules and hit run. Ran like a champ after configuring everything, including https://github.com/mykle1/MMM-EveryNews/issues/5 from @sdetweil.

Moral of the story - think either a driver got messed up, an OS file got messed up, or I was messed up. Starting from scratch did the trick though, and it’s up and running.

Thanks @sdetweil! I appreciate your help and timely responses!

sdetweil

@SymmetriC awesome. thanks for the feedback.