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    MagicMirrorOS build intermittently not starting mm container (Version 2.30)

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      sdetweil @scottwalsh
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      @scottwalsh please dont double post

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        The host is a pi zero 2w - so is on the low spec side.

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          @sdetweil said in MagicMirrorOS build intermittently not starting mm container (Version 2.30):

          @scottwalsh please dont double post

          Apologies, user error.

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            @scottwalsh how big is the swap file?

            free -m

            will tell you

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              @sdetweil said in MagicMirrorOS build intermittently not starting mm container (Version 2.30):

              @scottwalsh how big is the swap file?

              free -m

              scottwalsh@calendar:~ $ free -m
                             total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
              Mem:             425         210          66           0         204         214
              Swap:           1023         203         820
              scottwalsh@calendar:~ $
              
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                sdetweil @karsten13
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                bookworm is about 500m bigger that bullseye

                so swap is critical on small memory machines

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                  karsten13 @sdetweil
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                  mmos is critical with pi zero 2w, I had a user who gave up, but it depends on installed modules and quality of used sd-card.

                  CONF_SWAPSIZE=1024 (if not changed by user)

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                    sdetweil @scottwalsh
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                    @scottwalsh can you show w MagicMirror running…

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                      scottwalsh
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                      An observation, if I power cycle the pi, there is a good chance of it not starting up with the errors in the original post.

                      Once leave it for five min for all the processes to start (and fail), then run docker compose up -d --force-recreate, it seems to be stable from then on and works well.

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                        @sdetweil said in MagicMirrorOS build intermittently not starting mm container (Version 2.30):

                        @scottwalsh can you show w MagicMirror running…

                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $ 
                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $ docker compose up -d --force-recreate
                        [+] Running 5/5
                         ✔ Container watchtower  Started                                                                                                                                                                        42.0s 
                         ✔ Container labwc       Started                                                                                                                                                                        41.9s 
                         ✔ Container init        Started                                                                                                                                                                        42.2s 
                         ✔ Container mmpm        Started                                                                                                                                                                        42.4s 
                         ✔ Container mm          Started                                                                                                                                                                         5.3s 
                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $ 
                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $ docker ps
                        CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                          COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS                   PORTS                                                                                                                                                 NAMES
                        a1cb1b400de1   karsten13/mmpm:latest          "/home/node/entrypoi…"   3 minutes ago   Up 2 minutes             0.0.0.0:6789->6789/tcp, :::6789->6789/tcp, 0.0.0.0:7890-7891->7890-7891/tcp, :::7890-7891->7890-7891/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8907->8907/tcp, :::8907->8907/tcp   mmpm
                        f7ec5d32f0bd   karsten13/magicmirror:latest   "/usr/bin/tini -- ./…"   3 minutes ago   Up About a minute                                                                                                                                                              mm
                        74193ae14fbf   karsten13/labwc:latest         "/entrypoint.sh"         3 minutes ago   Up 2 minutes                                                                                                                                                                   labwc
                        bcf30cd7bb10   containrrr/watchtower:latest   "/watchtower --inter…"   3 minutes ago   Up 2 minutes (healthy)   8080/tcp                                                                                                                                              watchtower
                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $ 
                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $ free -m
                                       total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
                        Mem:             425         236         134          36         141         189
                        Swap:           1023         296         727
                        scottwalsh@calendar:/opt/mm/run $
                        
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                          sdetweil @scottwalsh
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                          @scottwalsh probably swap file speed bound

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                            karsten13 @scottwalsh
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                            the script /opt/mm/install/install.sh is executed with every reboot.

                            As workaround you could add

                            sleep 10s
                            docker compose up -d --force-recreate
                            

                            at the end (where you have to play with the sleep seconds).

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                              @karsten13 said in MagicMirrorOS build intermittently not starting mm container (Version 2.30):

                              the script /opt/mm/install/install.sh is executed with every reboot.

                              As workaround you could add

                              Is that executed on the OS boot, or by one of the containers as they start?

                              I was thinking of a workaround like that to introduce a pause. Given the low machine spec, it seems to be busy for about 5min after sshd starts, so will just try a 300 sec sleep.

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                                karsten13 @scottwalsh
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                                @scottwalsh

                                on OS boot

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                                  As an update, based on the pointers from @KARSTEN13 and @SDETWEIL, have a workaround.

                                  Had three issues going on.

                                  1:
                                  I found that on a graceful reboot (shutdown -r now) that it would generally start fine, but not on an ungraceful reboot (power cycle the machine).

                                  Looks like when it was ungraceful reboot, the labwc container would show with uptime of (for example) five hours when ‘docker ps’, even though the machine was rebooted 20min ago after ‘docker compose up’ was executed by install.sh. Whereas the magicmirror container would have recently started.

                                  I assume kind of lock file confusing things?

                                  Workaround was to change the first ‘docker compose up’ install.sh to ‘docker compose up -d --force-recreate’

                                  2:
                                  I’d also included a pause and --force-recreate at the end of the install.sh and noted it was never executing as per @KARSTEN13’s suggestion.
                                  Looked like the install.sh script was hanging at docker compose pull.
                                  Commented that out.

                                  3:
                                  Lastly, the initial ‘docker compose up -d --force-recreate’ in install.sh would still fail often with the mm container restarting with logs as per the original post.

                                  With a 7 min pause and then second ‘docker compose up -d --force-recreate’ it seems to start the second time well (3min wasn’t enough, 5min was better, 7min seems to work).

                                  Workaround is a bit on the slow side, at some point will see if can refactor it a bit so that a pull for updates occurs.

                                  Extract of resulting install.sh below.

                                  _info "--> Pulling docker images and starting magicmirror"
                                  # need sudo for docker here if docker was installed with this script
                                  
                                  # use up so mm can start if there are already local images
                                  _info "--> Pre Start Pause for 2min"
                                  sleep 120
                                  
                                  _info "--> Start and recreate"
                                  $_sudo docker compose up -d --force-recreate
                                  
                                  #_info "--> Pull Pause for 1 min"
                                  #sleep 60
                                  # pull new images
                                  #_info "--> Image Pull"
                                  #$_sudo docker compose pull
                                  
                                  #_info "--> Restart Pause for 1 min"
                                  #sleep 60
                                  # restart (only if new images pulled)
                                  #_info "--> Restart stopped"
                                  #$_sudo docker compose up -d
                                  
                                  _info "--> Final Pause for 7 min"
                                  sleep 720
                                  
                                  _info "--> Final  start and recreate"
                                  $_sudo docker compose up -d --force-recreate
                                  
                                  if [[ "$_sudo" == "sudo" ]]; then
                                    _info "--> Reboot needed, starting in 120 sec. (use ctrl-c to skip)"
                                    sleep 120
                                    sudo reboot now
                                  fi
                                  
                                  # cleanup
                                  $_sudo docker image prune -f
                                  
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