MM won't launch at startup, but will launch manually

[ajgonzales]

In case anyone else has this issue, I was able to able to get it to run via pm2 by running this command first:

xhost +si:localuser:[username]

Next steps are to figure out how to automatically run that command at startup prior to MM.

[sdetweil]

@ajgonzales add that to the launch script

you can find that by doing
pm2 status
then use the name or number of the row of the app

pm2 info x
where x is the name or number

can you give more info on the system?

lsb_release -a
uname -a

[ajgonzales]

@sdetweil
I did try adding the command to the first line of the mm.sh script in the installers folder but that didn’t work. Here’s the sequence I run after rebooting, after which I have no issues.

pm2 stop 0
xhost +si:localuser:[username]
pm2 start 0

Here’s the output from those other two commands:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release:        24.04
Codename:       noble

uname -a
Linux [computername] 6.8.0-31-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Apr 20 00:40:06 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[sdetweil]

@ajgonzales yeh 24.04

pm2 has an issue on 24.04 during boot up. I opened an issue a couple weeks ago.
https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/5820

I think you are also running the new Wayland display manager…

to verify

ps -ef | grep wayfire

so x11 commands won’t work

[majsoft]

Hi, this is how I’m running it for now, maybe it will help someone.

I will install PM2 according to the instructions

I will skip the command “pm2 startup”

After installation i proceed like this

i will create another boot file

cd ~
nano mm_start.sh

Add the following lines:

echo Start PM2......
pm2 start mm.sh
read;

set permissions

chmod +x mm_start.sh

we will set up the script after booting Ubuntu

now i can start and stop services at will.

[sdetweil]

@majsoft cool. don’t know if we have that on other systems

sometimes if you do

sudo npm remove pm2 -g

then reboot and run the fixuppm2 script in my scripts list