Magic Mirror doesn't work after a boot

[eightbit]

I need some serious help. I’ve probably spent the last 12 hours messing with PM2 and the mm.sh script for a Magic Mirror to display google photos.

When I do a pm2 start mm.sh it works perfectly. It loads the pictures up and cycles through them. When I reboot the raspberry pi Magic Mirror will attempt to launch but it just sits at this infinite white screen and never loads the pictures to cycle through. If I ssh into the system and do another pm2 start mm.sh -f it works and if I do a pm2 restart mm.sh it works.

What am I missing here? No other start up method seems to get this thing to successfully display pictures after a reboot. Please help…

Here is the guide I’m trying to follow
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/autostart.html#using-pm2

[sdetweil]

@eightbit ok…

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@26.2.4

and try again, manually w
npm start

[sdetweil]

@eightbit because you’ve done a lot of pm2 commands and run, the log is large, so lets clear that

pm2 flush

then reboot

alt-spacebar, n
to minmize the white screen mm, or ssh in

pm2 logs --lines=nnnn

nnnn is some number, default 15

another thing you can do is use my script for pm2 setup

see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts
last script on the page is fixuppm2

but first we need to clear the pm2 config
pm2 stop all
pm2 delete all
pm2 save -f

then run my script…
it uses the ~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

[eightbit]

@sdetweil Should I delete the mm.sh in my home dir before i run your pm2 fix?

[sdetweil]

@eightbit no… if it all works then later yes

[sdetweil]

@eightbit its only called ‘fix’ cause during my install script you can add pm2 support, or not… so its a separate script if u change your mind later

[eightbit]

@sdetweil Shoot. No luck! When I ran your script it loaded up and started perfectly and after the reboot it is hung on a white screen. In the logs it looks like it’s really trying to do something with the chromium browser but it just hangs and hangs. When it works on a pm2 start mm.sh (or using fixuppm2.sh) the log looks the same but then there are a couple lines after “starting chromium browser now”. I’ll post the log in another post.

[sdetweil]

@eightbit I just forgot, did you remove the autostart setup u added in the services?

[eightbit]

/home/secretsanta/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log last 15 lines:
/home/secretsanta/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log last 15 lines:
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.23.049] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.23.234] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.23.248] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.46.958] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.46.963] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-GooglePhotos
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.46.988] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.103] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 ...
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.496] [LOG] Server started ...
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.499] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.503] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.525] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-GooglePhotos
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.527] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started ...
0|MagicMir | [14.12.2023 07:44.47.529] [LOG]
0|MagicMir | Ready to go! Please point your browser to: http://localhost:8080
0|MagicMir | Starting chromium browser now, have patience, it takes a minute

[eightbit]

@sdetweil Yea I cleared out the systemd services I tried to enabled. They are disabled and stopped. I also tried an rc.local startup file to run the .sh file which never worked. I know that’s depreciated but desperate times and desperate measures lol.

[sdetweil]

@eightbit what device is this… you are using my install script which launches

run-start.sh

this is reserved for armv6 devices…
can u check the autostart

did you do this??? (answer should be no)
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/autostart.html#using-systemd-systemctl