No display after upgrading to 2.38

wimThoelke

on my setup, after upgrading to 2.38, the MM fullscreen display gets minimized to the taskbar right after startup.
after some debugging, it turned out that manual upgrading electron from 44.4.5 .to 44.5.0 fixed the issue.

runnning mm on:
Raspberry Pi OS Debian 12 arm64
Display Wayland

sdetweil

@wimThoelke thanks for the feedback…

how did you upgrade? manual or scripted?

wimThoelke

@sdetweil
manual upgrade of mm by git pull && node --run install-mm according to
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/upgrade-guide.html.
then update of electron by npm install --save-dev electron@44.5.0

sdetweil

@wimThoelke thanks. Very helpful

sdetweil

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

papinist

I can confirm this issue on my setup as well.

I upgraded MagicMirror from 2.37.0 to 2.38.0 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspberry Pi OS Debian 13 (Trixie), 64-bit, with Wayland/labwc.

After the upgrade, MagicMirror was running under PM2 and the server on port 8080 was working correctly, but the Electron window remained black / did not display the mirror.
I initially had Electron 44.4.5, and upgrading manually to 44.5.0 did NOT fix the problem on my system.

I then tested Electron 43.7.7, and MagicMirror worked correctly.
Finally, after seeing that the MagicMirror upgrade script had been updated to install Electron 44.5.1, I installed 44.5.1 manually:

npm install --no-save electron@44.5.1

With Electron 44.5.1, MagicMirror immediately started working correctly again under Wayland, with all my modules running normally.
So, at least on my Raspberry Pi 3B, 44.5.0 was not sufficient; Electron 44.5.1 was the version that actually fixed the problem.

Thanks for updating the upgrade script to install 44.5.1 — that was essential in my case.
Hopefully this helps anyone else who finds that upgrading only to 44.5.0 doesn’t solve the issue.

papinist

I can confirm this issue on my setup as well.

I upgraded MagicMirror from 2.37.0 to 2.38.0 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspberry Pi OS Debian 13 (Trixie), 64-bit, with Wayland/labwc.

After the upgrade, MagicMirror was running under PM2 and the server on port 8080 was working correctly, but the Electron window remained black / did not display the mirror.
I initially had Electron 44.4.5, and upgrading manually to 44.5.0 did NOT fix the problem on my system.

I then tested Electron 43.7.7, and MagicMirror worked correctly.
Finally, after seeing that the MagicMirror upgrade script had been updated to install Electron 44.5.1, I installed 44.5.1 manually:

npm install --no-save electron@44.5.1

With Electron 44.5.1, MagicMirror immediately started working correctly again under Wayland, with all my modules running normally.
So, at least on my Raspberry Pi 3B, 44.5.0 was not sufficient; Electron 44.5.1 was the version that actually fixed the problem.

Thanks for updating the upgrade script to install 44.5.1 — that was essential in my case.
Hopefully this helps anyone else who finds that upgrading only to 44.5.0 doesn’t solve the issue.

sdetweil

@papinist anyone using the scripts will not even know!! except for the message displayed

knightyomega

Can confirm this on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (Debian 12, arm64, Wayland/labwc, pm2) after git pull && node --run install-mm to 2.38.0 (Electron 44.4.5). The server and all modules started fine, but the mirror never displayed. In a plain test BrowserWindow loading localhost:8080, the renderer crashed about 16 seconds after the page loaded. There was nothing in dmesg (no OOM or segfault), and it happened with and without --disable-gpu.

Pinning Electron 42.5.2 worked as a stopgap. I then tried 44.5.1 (npm install --no-save electron@44.5.1) as papinist suggested, and it works on my Pi 3 too, including after a reboot. So 44.5.1 looks like the fix for this crash. Thanks wimThoelke, papinist and Sam.

rts58

I also am not seeing any display after the upgrade. I used @sdetweil latest upgrade script. I tried the upgrade of electron to 44.5.1, but still no luck. I checked the log and saw:

1|mm       | /MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGINT
1|mm       | [2026:1007/105447.154822:ERROR:ui/base/x/x11_display_util.cc:341] XRandR returned no displays; falling back to root window
1|mm       | [2189:1007/105447.262969:ERROR:ui/gfx/x/connection.cc:66] X connection error received.
1|mm       | [2026-10-07 10:57:18.680] [WARN]  [ip_access_control] IP 192.168.1.1 is not allowed to access the mirror

sdetweil

@rts58 how are you starting MM?

pm2, manually, some other script?

lets do this
oops, one more question

file $(which bash)

should say 64, not 32

file $(which bash)
/usr/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit

if pm2,
pm2 stop all

cd ~/MagicMirror 
ps -ef | grep way | grep -v grep

if any response , then running wayland

then do

grep version node_modules/electron/package.json

should show

grep version node_modules/electron/package.json
  "version": "44.5.1",
    "abi_version",

if so, the do
is the response on grep way was something

npm start

else if grep way was empty

npm run start:x11

please advise

rts58

@sdetweil
here is the terminal, still blank screen.

[/home/rpi] $ cd ~/MagicMirror 
ps -ef | grep way | grep -v grep

[/home/rpi/MagicMirror] $ grep version node_modules/electron/package.json
  "version": "44.4.5",
    "abi_version",

[/home/rpi/MagicMirror] $ npm run start:x11

> magicmirror@2.38.0 start:x11
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2026-10-07 11:25:36.584] [LOG]   [app] Starting MagicMirror: v2.38.0
[2026-10-07 11:25:36.619] [LOG]   [utils] Loading config ...
[2026-10-07 11:25:36.645] [INFO]  [utils] Checking config file /home/rpi/MagicMirror/config/config.js 

 file $(which bash)
/usr/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, BuildID[sha1]=bea6a154d9a9158114ee0a2a439045596615df14, for GNU/Linux 3.7.0, stripped

I won’t be able to check till later, thanks for your help.

sdetweil

@rts58 said:

“version”: “44.4.5”,

that is the broken electron

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@44.5.1

then restart

I want to see the MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log
email to the same userid as here at gmail
I had a bug in upgrade before Monday afternoon…

rts58

I’m not sure why I didn’t have the correct electron, after the upgrade didn’t worked i did the manual install, (but I may not have been in the MagicMirror directory). MM is now up and working. I’ll send the log, although it says

npm install completed - Wed Oct  7 09:53:32 EDT 2026 on base
installing electron @ 44.5.1 on 2.38.0

added 19 packages, and changed 1 package in 15s

Thanks as always!!!