Update, unable to connect.

[Richard238]

Same issue today. Tried with force but still no MM.

node -v = v22.14.0

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 can you show the startup messages

[Richard238]

@sdetweil

pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v22.14.0
pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 stop MagicMirror
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
[PM2] [MagicMirror](0) â
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â id â name               â mode     â ⺠   â status    â cpu      â memory   â
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â 0  â MagicMirror        â fork     â 2120 â stopped   â 0%       â 0b       â
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pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 start MagicMirror
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
[PM2] [MagicMirror](0) â
[PM2] Process successfully started
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â id â name               â mode     â ⺠   â status    â cpu      â memory   â
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â 0  â MagicMirror        â fork     â 2120 â online    â 0%       â 2.6mb    â
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pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 pm2 logs --lines=20

[Richard238]

@sdetweil said in Update, unable to connect.:

pm2 logs --lines=20

Seems to loop through this:

0|MagicMirror  | > magicmirror@2.32.0 start
0|MagicMirror  | > node --run start:x11
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.316] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.32.0 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.359] [LOG]   Loading config ... 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.363] [LOG]   config template file not exists, no envsubst 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.976] [INFO]  Checking config file /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js ... 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:32.117] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
0|MagicMirror  | Line 99 column 21: 'Log' is not defined. 
PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] online
0|MagicMirror  | bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

[mumblebaj]

@Richard238 said in Update, unable to connect.:

0|MagicMirror | [2025-08-16 19:11:32.117] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
0|MagicMirror | Line 99 column 21: ‘Log’ is not defined.

This seems to indicate that there is an error in config/config.js. Run the following on the command line in the ~/MagicMirror/ directory: npm run config:check

[Richard238]

@mumblebaj said in Update, unable to connect.:

npm run config:check

pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.32.0 config:check
> node js/check_config.js

[2025-08-17 12:14:16.030] [INFO]  Checking config file /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js ... 
[2025-08-17 12:14:16.285] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
Line 99 column 21: 'Log' is not defined. 

Lines 97/98/99:

                // Override start method.
                start: function () {
                    Log.log("Starting module: " + this.name);

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 did the

npm install 

complete?

do this

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror 
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

the start MagicMirror manually

npm start

[Richard238]

@sdetweil

pi@mmv2:/ $ pm2 stop all
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [all](ids: [ 0 ])
[PM2] [MagicMirror](0) â
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â id â name               â mode     â ⺠   â status    â cpu      â memory   â
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â 0  â MagicMirror        â fork     â 300  â stopped   â 0%       â 0b       â
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pi@mmv2:/ $ cd ~/MagicMirror
pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ rm -rf node_modules
pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ npm install
npm error code EIO
npm error syscall read
npm error errno -5
npm error EIO: i/o error, read
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2025-08-17T11_35_16_106Z-debug-0.log
pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

> magicmirror@2.32.0 start
> node --run start:x11

/bin/sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 of course you dont need to do npm start if the other stuff fsiled

cd ~/MagicMirror 
rm package-lock.json 
rm -rf node_modules 
npm cache clean --force
npm install

let me know the results