node_helper.js is not working?

sdetweil

@vandy2424

change the permissions owner and group
exit the editor

sudo chown jackson config.js
sudo chgrp jackson config.js

vandy2424

@sdetweil Okay I ran both of those commands.

sdetweil

@vandy2424 and try starting mm again

vandy2424

@sdetweil The calendar module still says loading… Everything else is the same as it was. Both logs show exactly the same as well.

sdetweil

@vandy2424 can you confirm the permissions change?

ls -laF

I can explain it

access to the file fails at startup time
fs.accessSync() js/app.js, line 117
so defaults is used… thats node helpers

file is loaded in the browser anyhow(index.html), and that controls module loading in browser

sdetweil

@sdetweil I will test in the morning

vandy2424

@sdetweil Yeah sure, the output actually looks the same even though I ran those commands:

jackson@raspberrypi:~/Documents/MagicMirror/config $ ls -laF
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  9 19:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 jackson jackson 4096 Feb  2 10:27 ../
-rwxrwxrwx  1 jackson jackson 1998 Feb  9 19:19 config.js*
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 3534 Feb  2 10:27 config.js.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 jackson jackson 1024 Feb  2 12:12 .config.js.swp

And wow, its incredible you were able to find that. Thanks so much for the continuous help. Hopefully we are close!

sdetweil

@vandy2424 try this

sudo chmod 644 config.js

sdetweil

@vandy2424 said in node_helper.js is not working?:

Hopefully we are close!

I can recreate it if I force the fs api call to fail… but I cannot get it to fail normally

root, full permissions, still works…

i can force it to fail the accessSync()

with permissions 740, and owner/group as root

but, i get an error message in the npm startup messages

[09.02.2024 21:21.19.642] [DEBUG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[09.02.2024 21:21.19.642] [ERROR] WARNING! Could not load config file. Starting with default configuration. Error found: Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/pi/Documents/MagicMirror/config/config.js'

vandy2424

@sdetweil Interesting. So it would seem my issue isn’t based with permissions of the config file but something else causing the config file to not be read/synced properly? It is strange that mine is “failing” normally, even though my permissions are correct.

I tried sudo chmod 644 config.js and nothing changed.

I wonder if its worth reinstalling MM at this point? Not sure what your take would be on that.