Mirror not starting after update

sdetweil

you are on node 20.9.

there are 2 local files that are different than the master repo

package-lock.json
package.json

save/restore files selection = y

sorry, you cannot save/restore those two files…
they are the KEY files for each release

so, do

cd ~/MagicMirror
git diff package.json >somefile.txt
git checkout package.json
git checkout package-lock.json
rm -rf node_modules
npm run install-mm

any changes you made to package.json are shown in the
somefile.txt if you need to re-apply them to the new package.json file

generally first rule, NEVER edit any files we ship.
1 it breaks upgrades
2 YOU are RESPONSIBLE for remembering WHAT and WHY you did it and how to fix it for next time.

this is why my upgrade script is TWO passes… to detect changes to critical files and warn you … help you remember (before we whack them)

xIExodusIx

@sdetweil
Sorry I didn’t know that, I thought that it were better to save/restore these files. Next time i will answer that question with no.

sdetweil

@xIExodusIx BUT their presence in the list SHOULD have made you think…

what did I change? and is it still important…

that is why I recommend running the test pass to find those things…

my hope is to never break a running mirror…

xIExodusIx

@sdetweil
Sorry, I thougt they were important so thought it were better to save/restore them.
I never changed anything in them, I can not code, I’m too stupid for coding!
The question will you save tells me they are important otherwise they were maybe orverwritten so it is better to save them.
I did not know that they were KEY-files for each new versions of MM and had (must) to be replaced by new ones.
I never will answer that quesion with yes again.
Now I will start to install my MM from scratch again for get it work. This will be my last attemp. When this does not work this time I will give up my MagicMirror project.

Thanks for helping.

sdetweil

@xIExodusIx you do not need to start over…

jut use the command I gave to restore the 2 files and do the npm install again

all will be well…

xIExodusIx

@sdetweil
I did that, but my MM won’t show up!
And now it’s to late I already killed my USB-Boot-Stick by writing the working MM-Image from yesterday to it.

chrisfr1976

@sdetweil

Mirror is running now. I used

cd ~/MagicMirror
git checkout package.json
git checkout package-lock.json
rm -rf node_modules
npm run install-mm

I didn‘t change anything there but this fixed my main problem.

But I still have this error message when I use pm2 start whatever. But it may be cosmetics…

Thanks for your help one again!

Chris

xIExodusIx

@sdetweil

So it’s up and running with MM 2.29.
I think I will never touch it again, only make OS updates/upgrades and nothing else.