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    • G Offline
      grimorth
      last edited by

      Hello,
      This is my first post here, so I would like to greet everyone! :)

      So I installed MM on my PI 3 v1.2 year 2015, and I tried to start it via SSH.
      Of course I read manual and I’m trying to start it by DISPLAY=:0 npm start

      But it’s giving me this error

      root@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror# DISPLAY=:0 npm start
      
      > magicmirror@2.4.1 start /root/MagicMirror
      > sh run-start.sh
      
      No protocol specified
      
      (electron:2352): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
      
      npm ERR! Linux 4.14.70-v7+
      npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
      npm ERR! node v4.2.1
      npm ERR! npm  v2.14.7
      npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
      npm ERR! magicmirror@2.4.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
      npm ERR! Exit status 1
      npm ERR! 
      npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.4.1 start script 'sh run-start.sh'.
      npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
      npm ERR! not with npm itself.
      npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
      npm ERR!     sh run-start.sh
      npm ERR! You can get their info via:
      npm ERR!     npm owner ls magicmirror
      npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
      
      npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
      npm ERR!     /root/MagicMirror/npm-debug.log
      

      What is strange when I typed echo $DISPLAY on PI it showed value 0.0, so I also tried DISPLAY=:0.0 npm start but the result is still the same…

      Some specs:
      I’m using ssh via MacBook Pro Mid 2014, Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6
      Fresh install of Rasbian Stretch, kernel 4.14.70-v7+

      Please help :C

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      • Mykle1M Offline
        Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @grimorth
        last edited by

        @grimorth said in Starting up MM via SSH don't work:

        npm ERR! node v4.2.1
        npm ERR! npm v2.14.7

        You can certainly start by updating node, and thus, npm. It might even solve your issue.

        Create a working config
        How to add modules

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        • G Offline
          grimorth @Mykle1
          last edited by

          @mykle1 Okay, that’s a good start, however I just messed up. I tried to update node, but it said that it’s already in the newest version (10.0) but as you pointed out npm shows 4.2.1, so I decided to completely remove node and install it again. I deleted some folders under /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include, however it’s still shows that node is installed. Can you help me get rid of it and reinstall? Also maybe reinstall of whole MM would be helpful?

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            grimorth @grimorth
            last edited by

            @grimorth Update. I managed to get rid of all node versions and installed 10.0 but I can’t start npm now. It says
            root@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror# npm -v -su: /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory

            I tried apt-get install npm but without luck…

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              grimorth
              last edited by

              Update.
              After reboot node and npm are up to date. However I still can’t start up MM via SSH. From PI terminal it works like a charm.

              root@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror# DISPLAY=:0 npm start
              
              > magicmirror@2.4.1 start /root/MagicMirror
              > sh run-start.sh
              
              No protocol specified
              
              (electron:942): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
              npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
              npm ERR! errno 1
              npm ERR! magicmirror@2.4.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
              npm ERR! Exit status 1
              npm ERR! 
              npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.4.1 start script.
              npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
              
              npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
              npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2018-09-23T00_09_27_111Z-debug.log
              root@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror# DISPLAY=:0.0 npm start
              
              > magicmirror@2.4.1 start /root/MagicMirror
              > sh run-start.sh
              
              No protocol specified
              
              (electron:965): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
              npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
              npm ERR! errno 1
              npm ERR! magicmirror@2.4.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
              npm ERR! Exit status 1
              npm ERR! 
              npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.4.1 start script.
              npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
              
              npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
              npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2018-09-23T00_09_42_728Z-debug.log
              

              Error log:

              root@raspberrypi:~/.npm/_logs# cat 2018-09-23T00_09_42_728Z-debug.log 
              0 info it worked if it ends with ok
              1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'start' ]
              2 info using npm@6.4.1
              3 info using node@v10.11.0
              4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
              5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~prestart: magicmirror@2.4.1
              6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: magicmirror@2.4.1
              7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
              8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/root/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
              9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: CWD: /root/MagicMirror
              10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: Args: [ '-c', 'sh run-start.sh' ]
              11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
              12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.4.1~start: Failed to exec start script
              13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.4.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
              13 verbose stack Exit status 1
              13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:301:16)
              13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:182:13)
              13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
              13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
              13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
              13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
              14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.4.1
              15 verbose cwd /root/MagicMirror
              16 verbose Linux 4.14.70-v7+
              17 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
              18 verbose node v10.11.0
              19 verbose npm  v6.4.1
              20 error code ELIFECYCLE
              21 error errno 1
              22 error magicmirror@2.4.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
              22 error Exit status 1
              23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.4.1 start script.
              23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
              24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]
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              • Mykle1M Offline
                Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @grimorth
                last edited by

                @grimorth

                Ok, now that your node and npm are up to date, I wouldn’t say reinstall MM just yet. Not until you’ve heard from a few others about your issue.

                In the meantime, would you try DISPLAY=:0 nohup npm start &

                I think that sh does not like DISPLAY=:0 npm start and will not work

                Create a working config
                How to add modules

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                • G Offline
                  grimorth
                  last edited by

                  @Mykle1 I tried your solution earlier but result was still the same.

                  I also managed to fix everything :)
                  I reinstalled whole rasbian, because I really messed up and when I tried to star MM directly on PI, it was showing only black screen. Then I installed MM directly on PI.
                  Earlier I was installing it via SSH. Shouldn’t be the issue yet it was…
                  Now everything runs smooth, I can start MM directly and via SSH with both commands DISPLAY=:0 nohup npm start & and DISPLAY=:0 npm start.

                  Thanks for all support :)

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                  • Mykle1M Offline
                    Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @grimorth
                    last edited by

                    @grimorth

                    Life is good. Enjoy!

                    Create a working config
                    How to add modules

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