Updating my MagicMirror using @sdetweil's script.

[sdetweil]

@manu85340 if you had used my backup/restore I would have put your custom.css in the right place

[manu85340]

@sdetweil Yes, you’re right—I tried to go too fast. I’ll know for next time. Thanks again for your help.

[sdetweil]

@manu85340 back up now, and when you make changes . Be ready in case

[manu85340]

@sdetweil I just updated MM using your script and it won’t start anymore; it stays on the Raspberry Pi desktop. Please help!

[sdetweil]

@manu85340 are you using pm2?

can you do

pm2 status

and

pm2 stop  xx

where xx is the number of the row of the application (MagicMirror)
usually 0
you can use either the name or the number

then
go to the MagicMirror folder

can you also do

lsb_release -a

do you know if the OS is running Wayland or x11 desktop

we changed the wayland startup , so…

[rabbit83ka]

i just updated to 2.38 via your script. Electron starts, but is only shown for a few seconds in fullscreen, then minimzed to the taskbar:
Latest PiOS (trixie) with wayland. Log doesn’t show anything after “launching electron”

[sdetweil]

@rabbit83ka If you click on that does it come on screen?

[rabbit83ka]

@sdetweil no

[manu85340]

@sdetweil I installed Debian Bookworm; I’m not sure if that’s what you’re asking for.

[sdetweil]

@manu85340 ok, lets try this

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm run start:x11

[rabbit83ka]

@sdetweil figured it out, nothing related to wayland. Somehow the udpated messed up the npm, removing it rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json and reinstalling with npm install fixed it

[sdetweil]

@rabbit83ka can you send the the
~/MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log

same userid as here at gmail

messed up nvm? I should only updated node version if required…
nvm or n (node version of nvm)

[rabbit83ka]

@sdetweil just sent the log

[manu85340]

@sdetweil Someone told me to skip this line and it worked.```

cd ~/MagicMirror && npm install electron@43 --save-exact

[sdetweil]

@manu85340 where is that line? not in either of my scripts…

[manu85340]

@sdetweil My apologies, but he didn’t tell me to “skip” it, but to execute it.
Sorry, but the translator interpreted it that way.

[sdetweil]

@manu85340 ah. Thanks. My script does thst for 32 bit systems. But not for 64. Looks like we are all fighting electron issues

[sdetweil]

I’ve updated my scripts to install an updated electron to fix this problem…
during install or upgrade