Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Magic Mirror with Pi4 OS not working with Pi5
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@sdetweil Hi Sam,
quick question which came in my mind as reading this:As you might remember, bugsounet left this forum and closed his git-repositories…
As far as I understood your restore mechanism rebuilds the modules from their respective git-repositories.
This is not doable for the described scenario, right?
What to do?
Especially for e.g. MMM-PIR which has extensive dependencies which are installed by some scripts from bugsounet’s git-repo …Thanks for any hint!
Regards,
Ralf -
@rkorell correct. it restores from source repo
someone saved a new repo for mmm-pir (see the 3rd party list)
sadly the modules will die. he made it near impossible to keep them active
you cannot migrate most of them in binary form either.
but i can add messaging in both backup and restore.
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@sdetweil said in Magic Mirror with Pi4 OS not working with Pi5:
you cannot migrate
Yeah, that’s what I was afraid of…
Sad!thanks for confirmation anyway!
Ralf -
@rkorell I added an issue to the back/restore repo to track what to do here
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@sdetweil Hello, thank you very much, I somehow managed to do that by ‘manually’ copying the modules etc. back. But I still have the following problem. I use an original Raspi keyboard and used to get into the ‘dock’ with the ‘Berry’ key, so that I could call up the terminal and end the MagicMirror with ‘pm2 stop mm’. This no longer works and I can only get out via RealVNC. Do you have a solution for this?
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@TomOMaley sorry I dont know what you are talking about,
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@sdetweil The question is, how can I stop MM in order to go back to the grafic desktop?
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@TomOMaley ctrl-m should minimize
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@sdetweil Thank you very much Sam, that makes life easier. I didn’t know the key combination.
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@TomOMaley it’s the same keystroke as Windows
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@sdetweil Hello Sam, I finally tried also your backup-restore link and it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, the calendar module no longer loads my iOS events (next events and birthdays), it only shows “Loading”. Also the news feeds are not shown. For the latter, the message “No news at the moment” appears. I have found various solutions on the net, but I don’t dare to try them out so as not to produce any more mess. The same config.js works fine on a Raspberry Pi 4. Hope you will and can help?
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@TomOMaley hm, working perfectly and modules not working is an oxymoron… lol
can you show the messages at npm start time for calendar? watch out, some messages show the full calendar url
can you tell me the MagicMirror version on the.pi 4
and show the calendar config, xxx out any private info, don’t delete any lines
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From my own recent experience, you have a copy of the previous config.js file but the modules cloned into the new system may not be the same as what was cloned into the old system.
Butch Kemper
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@butchkemper my backup restore gets the modules from the same prior url
but might not be the same version, if the module was updated since the last clone/pull (but 99% of the time this is a good change ) -
@sdetweil Hi, Thanks for your quick answer. I do not know what you mean with
show the messages at npm start time for calendar?
The MagicMirror Version on the pi4 is 2.24.0
Your restore link restored everything back as expected. All modules are running besides of those named above. The “alert” module, “updatenotification”, “clock”, “calendar_monthly”, “weather”, “MMM-MoonPhase”, etc. etc. are running well.

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@TomOMaley when MagicMirror starts, w npm start
there are messages output
if you use pm2 then
pn2 logs --lines=xxxx
where xxxx is the number of lines to display, default 15 -
That is what I get with pm2 logs --lines=20.
[TAILING] Tailing last 20 lines for [all] processes (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi5/.pm2/pm2.log last 20 lines:
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:06:56: PM2 log: Concurrent actions : 2
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:06:56: PM2 log: SIGTERM timeout : 1600
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:06:56: PM2 log: ===============================================================================
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:06:56: PM2 log: App [mm:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:06:56: PM2 log: App [mm:0] online
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:57:48: PM2 log: Stopping app:mm id:0
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:57:49: PM2 log: App [mm:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:57:49: PM2 log: pid=1128 msg=process killed
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:57:49: PM2 log: App [mm:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | 2025-03-17T20:57:49: PM2 log: App [mm:0] online
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:16:19: PM2 log: Stopping app:mm id:0
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:16:19: PM2 log: App [mm:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:16:19: PM2 log: pid=3621 msg=process killed
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:16:19: PM2 log: App [mm:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:16:19: PM2 log: App [mm:0] online
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:20:13: PM2 log: Stopping app:mm id:0
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:20:13: PM2 log: App [mm:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:20:13: PM2 log: pid=4540 msg=process killed
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:20:13: PM2 log: App [mm:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2 | 2025-03-17T21:20:13: PM2 log: App [mm:0] online/home/pi5/.pm2/logs/mm-error.log last 20 lines:
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.666827:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.666942:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.667063:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.667127:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.669483:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.671772:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.672140:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.672271:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.672606:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.672981:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.673132:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674044:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674213:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674280:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674369:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674413:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674498:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674546:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674644:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(74)] Failed to get fd for plane.: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)
0|mm | [5164:0317/212015.674691:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(257)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (2)/home/pi5/.pm2/logs/mm-out.log last 20 lines:
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.575] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-MoonPhase
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.575] [LOG] Starting module helper: MMM-MoonPhase
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.575] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-FroniusSolar2
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.576] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-text-clock
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.576] [LOG] Starting module helper: MMM-text-clock
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.577] [LOG] Connecting socket for: mmm-systemtemperature
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.579] [LOG] Starting node helper: mmm-systemtemperature
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.580] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:15.697] [LOG] Launching application.
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.212] [INFO] System information:
0|mm | ### SYSTEM: manufacturer: Raspberry Pi Foundation; model: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1; virtual: false
0|mm | ### OS: platform: linux; distro: Debian GNU/Linux; release: 12; arch: arm64; kernel: 6.6.74+rpt-rpi-2712
0|mm | ### VERSIONS: electron: 32.3.3; used node: 20.18.1; installed node: 20.18.1; npm: 10.8.2; pm2: 5.4.3
0|mm | ### OTHER: timeZone: Etc/GMT-1; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.814] [INFO] Checking git for module: calendar_monthly
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.829] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-MoonPhase
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.839] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-FroniusSolar2
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.855] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-text-clock
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.863] [INFO] Checking git for module: mmm-systemtemperature
0|mm | [2025-03-17 21:20:16.871] [INFO] Checking git for module: MagicMirror -
@TomOMaley OK, need to see more lines,
but
to get rid of some noise errors
edit the ~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh
and change npm start to
npm run start:waylandthen
pm2 flush
pn2 restart mmwait a while, then pm2 logs --lines=50
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@sdetweil Hello Sam, in the installers/mm.sh, second line, I find: npm run start:x11 ; should I change this to npm start:wayland OR to npm run start:wayland ?
ANDthen
pm2 flush
pn2 restart mm ! Is it pn2 OR pm2 ? -
npm run start:wayland
good catch
npm start, is the only shortcut
all others require npm runsee the package.json
scripts
list for other npm run commands
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