Blank black screen | Noob

[smithdsl]

Hey Everyone,
I was have the same issue. Change from ‘en’ to ’ ’ now it works.
@KirAsh4 this is my “locale” folder.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo ls -aF /usr/share/X11/locale/
./            fi_FI.UTF-8/       iso8859-11/  iso8859-6/    ja.SJIS/      locale.dir         sr_CS.UTF-8/   zh_CN.gb18030/    zh_TW.UTF-8/
../           georgian-academy/  iso8859-13/  iso8859-7/    km_KH.UTF-8/  microsoft-cp1251/  tatar-cyr/     zh_CN.gbk/
am_ET.UTF-8/  georgian-ps/       iso8859-14/  iso8859-8/    ko/           microsoft-cp1255/  th_TH/         zh_CN.UTF-8/
armscii-8/    ibm-cp1133/        iso8859-15/  iso8859-9/    koi8-c/       microsoft-cp1256/  th_TH.UTF-8/   zh_HK.big5/
C/            iscii-dev/         iso8859-2/   iso8859-9e/   koi8-r/       mulelao-1/         tscii-0/       zh_HK.big5hkscs/
compose.dir   isiri-3342/        iso8859-3/   ja/           koi8-u/       nokhchi-1/         vi_VN.tcvn/    zh_HK.UTF-8/
el_GR.UTF-8/  iso8859-1/         iso8859-4/   ja.JIS/       ko_KR.UTF-8/  pt_BR.UTF-8/       vi_VN.viscii/  zh_TW/
en_US.UTF-8/  iso8859-10/        iso8859-5/   ja_JP.UTF-8/  locale.alias  ru_RU.UTF-8/       zh_CN/         zh_TW.big5/
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Thanks.

[KirAsh4]

And in the EN_US.UTF-8 folder? Is there stuff in there?

[smithdsl]

pi@raspberrypi:/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 $ ls -aF
./ …/ Compose XI18N_OBJS XLC_LOCALE
pi@raspberrypi:/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8 $

[KirAsh4]

Yeah that’s odd, it’s the same on mine, so you do have en_US locale installed on the rpi. But why is MM² failing for you, when it’s working fine for me, that’s a bit of a mystery. If you don’t mind, just for grins, would you care to run through only Step 2 in this post: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial/4, specifically the Internationalization part.

[MichMich]

This is a real strange situation. I tried it with different language setting, but none of them seem to cause an issue. (Even when using language: 'foobar', it just works fine.) Could one of you who is experiencing the bug, look in the developer’s console for any error messages?

[ronny3050]

@MichMich I think this has something to do with electron? Because everything runs fine on server only.

[MichMich]

I can’t really see how that’s affected. It’s just a variable that will be used to select the right file. I really need a log from the console to figure out what’s wrong.

[smithdsl]

@MichMich How do I dump the log file?

[MichMich]

It’s not the node log. It’s the console log you can see in the developers tools. A screenshot (with the red error messages) is enough.

[MichMich]

I just pushed a possible fix to the develop branch. Please let me know if this solves the issue.

[dejayou]

Hi MichMich- I am using the new develop branch and whatever the fix was is not working for me. I am still getting the blank black screen. I also wasn’t able to fix it with changing the naming conventions related to the language settings that worked for others.

[MichMich]

In your case its probably an other issue. Could you share your config.js (don’t forget to take out sensitive info)?

[dejayou]

Hi MichMich,
Thank you for continuing to work with me on this matter. Here is the config file:

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 */
var config = {
    port: 8080,

    language: "nl",
    timeFormat: 24,
    units: "metric",

    modules: [{
        module: "alert"
    },
            {
        module: "wuforecast",
        position: "top_right", // This can be any of the regions.
        // Best results in left or right regions.
        config: {
            // See ‘Configuration options’ for more information.
            location: "Cleveland",
            appid: "5095830b868b90bcc31affdad4911325" //wunderground.com API key.
        }
    },
            {
        module: "clock",
        position: "top_left"
    },
            {
        module: "calendar",
        header: "US Holidays",
        position: "top_left",
        config: {
            calendars: [{
                symbol: "calendar-check-o",
                url: "webcal://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
            }]
        }
    },
            {
        module: "compliments",
        position: "lower_third"
    },
            {
        module: "currentweather",
        position: "top_right",
        config: {
            location: "Cleveland",
            locationID: "4614088", //ID from bulk.openweather.org/sample/
            appid: "5095830b868b90bcc31affdad4911325"
        }
    },
            {
        module: "weatherforecast",
        position: "top_right",
        header: "Weather Forecast",
        config: {
            location: "Cleveland",
            locationID: "4614088", //ID from bulk.openweather.org/sample/
            appid: "5095830b868b90bcc31affdad4911325"
        }
    },
            {
        module: "newsfeed",
        position: "bottom_bar",
        config: {
            feeds: [{
                title: "New York Times",
                url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
            }],
            showSourceTitle: true,
            showPublishDate: true
        }
    }]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== "undefined") {
    module.exports = config;
}

[MichMich]

@dejayou: could you try your magic mirror without the wuforecast module?

[dejayou]

That did it! Amazing thank you!

[spazehorst]

Hello @MichMich and everyone!

First of all big thanks for this really cool project, my bathroom mirror is progressing well ;-)

Unfortunately I cannot confirm that this issue here is solved.

After succeeding to set up a Pi 1 with the serveronly feature, I ordered a Pi 3, did almost the same but maybe not thoroughly, thought I messed up, and started over from scratch:

I ran the automatic installer and left the config.js.sample as it was (this was the lucky move!). I started the mirror with DISPLAY=:0 npm start. The interface shows up and gives the message: please create a config.js file.
But when I do mv config.js.sample config.js and restart the mirror, I get a black screen. When I now set the language to ‘’, it works as supposed.
So maybe also one of the default modules messes up (like the “wuforecast”)?
Anyhow may I suggest to just set the language field blank in the config.js.sample, so that others don’t stumble upon this?

Thank you and Cheers, Patrick

PS:
Pi 3 Model B v1.2
$uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.11-v7+ #888 SMP Mon May 23 20:10:33 BST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

The only commands I ever executed after reinstall were:
sudo su
sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install -y x11-xserver-utils unclutter matchbox vim
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh | bash
cd MagicMirror/
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

[MichMich]

@spazehorst could you try it with The sample config? Especially no 3rd party modules.

[spazehorst]

@MichMich well, as I wrote above, I just renamed the sample config which is currently checkd in, never even opened it ;-) That’s why I said it must be one of those default modules…
(I am sitting on this commit: 5d9d71dee8c300fede321dbafb5ff7aa79f1ea30)
Cheers

[MichMich]

@spazehorst Please try The develop branch with The latest commit.

[spazehorst]

@MichMich Hi, sorry for the late reply, I could now quickly test it and with the sample config of the devel branch (commit e2ed0f5e55c132633bcbd5c7c64159c0aaced571) it works.

edit: after pulling the master again, it now also works there with language: ‘en’

Cheers