Electron error: Cannot find module 'envsub'

[sdetweil]

@asd how did you upgrade?

manual or scripted?

if manual what commands did u enter?

[asd]

@sdetweil thanks for your help.

The MagicMirror was running well on git commit f14e956 from Feb, 7th 2023.
When I upgraded via git pull within the ~/MagicMirror folder, the miror would not start anymore.

Hence I tried to reverse the git pull via git reset --hard f14e956 which unfortunately did not help either.

Besides this, I previously ran the standard apt update && upgrade -y. However, the mirror worked fine when restarting after this via pm2 restart mm. S o I do not think it was based of this.

For reference, I run MM on a Raspberry Pi 4.

[sdetweil]

@asd ok, got it.

you forgot the second step of upgrade

git pull && npm install

you MUST run npm install

and POSSIBLY. have to run npm install or electron-rebuild in all the installed modules
due to the possible nodejs change and electron change.

[asd]

@sdetweil awesome. It works again. Thank you very much. greatly appreciated!

I have done my updates like this before and seem to have forgotten it this time.

[Roncham]

I have the same problem. I updated using

git pull && npm run install-mm

I also ran npm install in each module, only 1 seemed to update. Rebooted and still get same error:

@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm run start

> magicmirror@2.23.0 start
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot find module 'envsub'
Require stack:
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:963:15)
    at n._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:109416)
    at Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:811:27)
    at f._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13328)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1035:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:13:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1196:10)
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module 'envsub'
Require stack:
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/electron.js
- /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:963:15)
    at n._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:109416)
    at Module._resolveFilename (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/module-alias/index.js:49:29)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:811:27)
    at f._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13328)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1035:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:13:16)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1196:10)
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast: /usr/lib/dri/kms_swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast: /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied (search paths /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri:\$${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri)
failed to load swrast driver
^C/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGINT

Any other ideas?
Thanks

[sdetweil]

@Roncham I can only say that the npm run did not work

from the MagicMirror folder do

npm install --omit=dev

[Roncham]

@sdetweil said in Electron error: Cannot find module 'envsub':

npm install --omit=dev

That worked thank you!

[hecaru]

@sdetweil (posting it in case somebody else is going to need it)

In my case, the NPM error was:

npm ERR! code EBADENGINE
npm ERR! engine Unsupported engine
npm ERR! engine Not compatible with your version of node/npm: magicmirror@2.31.0
npm ERR! notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: magicmirror@2.31.0
npm ERR! notsup Required: {"node":">=22.14.0"}
npm ERR! notsup Actual:   {"npm":"8.19.4","node":"v16.20.2"}

MagicMirror 2.31.0 needs at least Node 22, but through APT command, the Raspbian repos go up to 16. To solve this, I installed N, the Node version manager as an NPM module, then udpated Node that way.

$ sudo npm install -g n

added 1 package, and audited 2 packages in 2s

$ sudo n 22

  installing : node-v22.14.0
       mkdir : /usr/local/n/versions/node/22.14.0
       fetch : https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.14.0/node-v22.14.0-linux-armv7l.tar.xz
     copying : node/22.14.0
   installed : v22.14.0 (with npm 10.9.2)

Note: the node command changed location and the old location may be remembered in your current shell.
         old : /usr/bin/node
         new : /usr/local/bin/node
If "node --version" shows the old version then start a new shell, or reset the location hash with:
hash -r  (for bash, zsh, ash, dash, and ksh)
rehash   (for csh and tcsh)

$ node -v
v16.20.2
$ hash -r
$ node -v
v22.14.0

Then rerun npm run install-mm and it will work.

Hope it helps. :)

[sdetweil]

@hecaru yes, and IF you use my upgrade script, it will handle that for you…

same place as the install script