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    Electron NPM Error

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    • G Offline
      garc7481 @froinds
      last edited by

      @froinds
      Will they have a fix for this.

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      • D Offline
        DeanoAus
        last edited by

        Having the exact same problem. Been searching and trying to fix for hours :/

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        • cowboysdudeC Offline
          cowboysdude Module Developer
          last edited by

          Just format and reinstall… it’s easier.

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          • D Offline
            DeanoAus
            last edited by

            I removed MM entirely and did a fresh curl install. Still same problem. I could be onto something here tho, let you know in a sec.

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            • cowboysdudeC Offline
              cowboysdude Module Developer @DeanoAus
              last edited by

              @DeanoAus try the manual install. It seems to run smoother.

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              • D Offline
                DeanoAus
                last edited by yawns

                I just tried

                npm install npm@latest -g
                npm install -g grunt
                npm install -g electron
                

                and when installing electron I get

                pi@Pi:~ $ sudo npm install -g electron
                /usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js
                
                > electron@1.6.6 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
                > node install.js
                
                /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
                  throw err
                  ^
                
                Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/dist/resources'
                    at Error (native)
                npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                npm ERR! errno 1
                npm ERR! electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
                npm ERR! Exit status 1
                npm ERR!
                npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.6.6 postinstall script 'node install.js'.
                npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
                npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron package,
                npm ERR! not with npm itself.
                npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
                npm ERR!     node install.js
                npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
                npm ERR!     npm bugs electron
                npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
                npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron
                npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
                
                npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-01T02_57_00_518Z-debug.log
                
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                • cowboysdudeC Offline
                  cowboysdude Module Developer
                  last edited by yawns

                  Delete MM and re-download it.

                  Install manually.

                  Manual Installation

                  • Download and install the latest Node.js version.
                  • Clone the repository and check out the master branch: git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
                  • Enter the repository: cd ~/MagicMirror
                  • Install and run the app: npm install && npm start
                  • Important: npm start does not work via SSH, use DISPLAY=:0 nohup npm start & instead. This starts the mirror on the remote display.

                  Note: if you want to debug on Raspberry Pi you can use npm start dev which will start the MagicMirror app with Dev Tools enabled.

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                  • D Offline
                    DeanoAus @cowboysdude
                    last edited by

                    @cowboysdude said in Electron NPM Error:

                    npm install && npm start

                    Ok, trying now.

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                    • D Offline
                      DeanoAus
                      last edited by

                      sigh Failed.

                      pi@Pi:~ $ sudo apt-get install nodejs
                      Reading package lists... Done
                      Building dependency tree
                      Reading state information... Done
                      nodejs is already the newest version.
                      The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
                        libc-ares2 libv8-3.14.5
                      Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
                      0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
                      pi@Pi:~ $ git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
                      Cloning into 'MagicMirror'...
                      remote: Counting objects: 7394, done.
                      remote: Total 7394 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 7394
                      Receiving objects: 100% (7394/7394), 11.00 MiB | 492.00 KiB/s, done.
                      Resolving deltas: 100% (4086/4086), done.
                      Checking connectivity... done.
                      pi@Pi:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
                      pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install && npm start
                      npm WARN prefer global coffee-script@1.10.0 should be installed with -g
                      npm WARN prefer global jsonlint@1.6.2 should be installed with -g
                      
                      > electron-chromedriver@1.6.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
                      > node ./download-chromedriver.js
                      
                      
                      > electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                      > node install.js
                      
                      /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
                        throw err
                        ^
                      
                      Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources'
                          at Error (native)
                      
                      npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                      npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                      npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                      npm ERR! errno 1
                      npm ERR! electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
                      npm ERR! Exit status 1
                      npm ERR!
                      npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.6.6 postinstall script 'node install.js'.
                      npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
                      npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron package,
                      npm ERR! not with npm itself.
                      npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
                      npm ERR!     node install.js
                      npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
                      npm ERR!     npm bugs electron
                      npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
                      npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron
                      npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
                      
                      npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                      npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-01T03_24_28_075Z-debug.log
                      
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                      • cowboysdudeC Offline
                        cowboysdude Module Developer @DeanoAus
                        last edited by cowboysdude

                        @DeanoAus said in Electron NPM Error:

                        /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-01T03_24_28_075Z-debug.log

                        Open this file
                        /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-01T03_24_28_075Z-debug.log

                        See what it’s telling you…

                        I really do have to go to bed … have to get up early but don’t give up…

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                        • D Offline
                          DeanoAus
                          last edited by

                          73493 silly postinstall electron@1.6.6
                          73494 info lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: electron@1.6.6
                          73495 verbose lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: unsafe-perm in lifecycle false
                          73496 verbose lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/node_modules/.bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modul$
                          73497 verbose lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                          73498 silly lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: Args: [ '-c', 'node install.js' ]
                          73499 silly lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
                          73500 info lifecycle electron@1.6.6~postinstall: Failed to exec postinstall script
                          73501 verbose unlock done using /root/.npm/_locks/staging-f4a655787a5bf4d3.lock for /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.staging
                          73502 silly rollbackFailedOptional Starting
                          73503 silly gentlyRm /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron is being purged from base /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73504 verbose gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                          73505 silly gentlyRm /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron is being purged from base /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73506 verbose gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                          73507 silly gentlyRm /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron is being purged from base /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73508 verbose gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                          73509 silly gentlyRm /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron is being purged from base /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73510 verbose gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                          73511 silly gentlyRm /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron is being purged from base /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73512 verbose gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                          73513 silly gentlyRm /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron is being purged from base /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73527 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73528 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73529 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73530 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73531 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73532 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73533 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73534 silly vacuum-fs quitting because other entries in /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules
                          73535 silly rollbackFailedOptional Finishing
                          73536 silly runTopLevelLifecycles Finishing
                          73537 silly install printInstalled
                          73538 warn grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                          73539 warn stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                          73540 verbose stack Error: electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
                          73540 verbose stack Exit status 1
                          73540 verbose stack     at EventEmitter. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:279:16)
                          73540 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
                          73540 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
                          73540 verbose stack     at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
                          73540 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
                          73540 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
                          73540 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:886:16)
                          73540 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
                          73541 verbose pkgid electron@1.6.6
                          73542 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
                          73543 verbose Linux 4.9.24-v7+
                          73544 verbose argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
                          73545 verbose node v6.10.2
                          73546 verbose npm  v4.5.0
                          73547 error code ELIFECYCLE
                          73548 error errno 1
                          73549 error electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
                          73549 error Exit status 1
                          73550 error Failed at the electron@1.6.6 postinstall script 'node install.js'.
                          73550 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
                          73550 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron package,
                          73550 error not with npm itself.
                          
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                          • M Offline
                            mitchscobell
                            last edited by

                            I am having the same problem. Wiped the pi and reflashed the image from scratch. Spent a few hours myself tonight trying various things to fix it without getting anywhere. Same exact errors as pasted above.

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                            • W Offline
                              WinterRain
                              last edited by

                              I’m getting the same problem. Started from scratch a few times but no luck. Finally managed to have it installed to the point where I could run using node serveronly then running on a browser. Also had to use ~/MagicMirror/vendor npm install as this seem to have been skipped in the auto installation when it hit the electron error.

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                              • D Offline
                                DeanoAus
                                last edited by

                                Is there any way we can get a dev to look at this?

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                                • D Offline
                                  DeanoAus
                                  last edited by

                                  I installed npm in Vendors. Now my error log is significantly less, but still dies.

                                  0 info it worked if it ends with ok
                                  1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/nodejs', '/usr/bin/npm', 'start' ]
                                  2 info using npm@4.5.0
                                  3 info using node@v6.10.2
                                  4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
                                  5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~prestart: magicmirror@2.1.1
                                  6 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
                                  7 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: magicmirror@2.1.1
                                  8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
                                  9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin$
                                  10 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                  11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: Args: [ '-c', 'sh run-start.sh' ]
                                  12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: Failed to exec start script
                                  13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.1.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
                                  13 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
                                  13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:33:16)
                                  13 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
                                  13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
                                  13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:886:16)
                                  13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
                                  14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.1.1
                                  15 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                  16 verbose Linux 4.9.24-v7+
                                  17 verbose argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
                                  18 verbose node v6.10.2
                                  19 verbose npm  v4.5.0
                                  20 error file sh
                                  21 error code ELIFECYCLE
                                  22 error errno ENOENT
                                  23 error syscall spawn
                                  24 error magicmirror@2.1.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
                                  24 error spawn ENOENT
                                  25 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.1 start script 'sh run-start.sh'.
                                  25 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
                                  25 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
                                  25 error not with npm itself.
                                  25 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
                                  25 error     sh run-start.sh
                                  25 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
                                  25 error     npm bugs magicmirror
                                  25 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
                                  25 error     npm owner ls magicmirror
                                  25 error There is likely additional logging output above.
                                  26 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
                                  
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                                  • NomisN Offline
                                    Nomis
                                    last edited by

                                    https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2460/magicmirror-fails-to-install-during-electron-installation

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                                    • D Offline
                                      DeanoAus
                                      last edited by

                                      • /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendors npm install (This installed some missing stuff that seems to have not installed)
                                      • /home/pi/MagicMirror/ npm install (This failed, but showed that electron was missing. Only failed due to permission)
                                      • /home/pi/MagicMirror/ sudo npm install (This died with error ECONNRESET, so tried again)
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                                        DeanoAus @Nomis
                                        last edited by

                                        @Nomis said in Electron NPM Error:

                                        https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2460/magicmirror-fails-to-install-during-electron-installation

                                        Those steps didn’t help.

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                                        • NomisN Offline
                                          Nomis @DeanoAus
                                          last edited by Nomis

                                          @DeanoAus

                                          Sorry to hear that.

                                          For me it worked with those dependencies fixed.

                                          pi@raspberrypi:~$ npm -v ; node -v
                                          4.1.2
                                          v7.7.1
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~$ cd MagicMirror/
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror$ cd node_modules/
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules$ npm install electron
                                          
                                          > electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                                          > node install.js
                                          
                                          magicmirror@2.1.1 /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                          └── electron@1.6.6
                                          
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules$
                                          

                                          Here the thread I’ve been looking last night: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/9324
                                          User: johannesjo made a fork: https://github.com/johannesjo/electron-prebuilt

                                          But what I did was to downgrade the extract-zip:

                                          pi@raspberrypi:~$ cd MagicMirror/
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror$ cd node_modules/
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules$ npm uninstall extract-zip
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules$ npm install extract-zip@1.6.0
                                          .
                                          .
                                          .
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules$ npm install electron
                                          

                                          As a result of all this:

                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror$ npm install
                                          
                                          > magicmirror@2.1.1 install /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                          > cd vendor && npm install
                                          
                                          magicmirror-vendors@ /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendor
                                          ├── font-awesome@4.7.0
                                          ├── moment@2.18.1
                                          ├── moment-timezone@0.5.13
                                          └── weathericons@2.1.0
                                          
                                          
                                          > magicmirror@2.1.1 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                          > sh installers/postinstall/postinstall.sh
                                          
                                          MagicMirror installation successful!
                                          pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror$
                                          

                                          Hope it helps

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                                            DeanoAus
                                            last edited by

                                            now it’s just hanging at the install of electron. Been there for 5 minutes now :(

                                            pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ cd node_modules/
                                            pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm uninstall extract-zip
                                            - ms@0.7.1 node_modules/extract-zip/node_modules/ms
                                            - debug@2.2.0 node_modules/extract-zip/node_modules/debug
                                            - pend@1.2.0 node_modules/pend
                                            - fd-slicer@1.0.1 node_modules/fd-slicer
                                            - yauzl@2.4.1 node_modules/yauzl
                                            - extract-zip@1.6.4 node_modules/extract-zip
                                            npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                                            npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                                            pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm install extract-zip@1.6.0
                                            magicmirror@2.1.1 /home/pi/MagicMirror
                                            └─┬ spectron@3.6.2
                                              └─┬ electron-chromedriver@1.6.0
                                                └─┬ extract-zip@1.6.0 
                                                  ├─┬ concat-stream@1.5.0 
                                                  │ └─┬ readable-stream@2.0.6 
                                                  │   └── isarray@1.0.0 
                                                  ├── debug@0.7.4 
                                                  └─┬ yauzl@2.4.1 
                                                    └─┬ fd-slicer@1.0.1 
                                                      └── pend@1.2.0 
                                            
                                            npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                                            npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
                                            pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm install electron
                                            
                                            > electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
                                            > node install.js
                                            
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