Can't get MM to start, says it can't find electron, then electron won't start

jmartin1009

electron: not found

Could this be because it says that node_modules is missing? I did both npm install and npm install electron@3.0.10 in MagicMirror.

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 npm install from inside the magicmirror folder should have created node_modules (thats its (npm) job)

erase MagicMirror folder,
download again
and then cd MagicMirror and then npm install

jmartin1009

@sdetweil another error, it says

npm ERR! file /home/pi/MagicMirror/package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse json
npm ERR! JSON.parse Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near ' '
npm ERR! JSON.parse Failed to parse package. json data.
npm ERR! JSON.parse package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 did u download the MagicMirror folder over again?

jmartin1009

@sdetweil yes I deleted the contents of the old folder and changed the name and redownloaded MagicMirror

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 ok, from the /home/pi folder lets start again

cd ~

rm -rf whatever_the_old_folder_name_is
rm -rf MagicMirror

git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror.git

cd MagicMirror
npm install

jmartin1009

@sdetweil okay I did all of that and it said it cloned and everthing, and then it rebooted during the install, now what? lol

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 should not reboot

jmartin1009

@sdetweil oh it reboots everytime I install magicmirror, how do I prevent this? because it always reboots like 1/3 of the way through the progress bar and it always did it so I thought it was normal lol can I stop this? I have a pi 3+ btw

jmartin1009

@jmartin1009 it also does that everytime I try to install electron so maybe that’s why it isn’t working :confused: is there any fix for this?

sdetweil

Sorry, I do not know. Mine never reboots.

How big is your memory card?

jmartin1009

@sdetweil 32 gb

jmartin1009

@sdetweil I believe u figured out why it was restarting, a common cause of it is lack of power, and some person had problems with their keyboard drawing too much power so I unplugged it and it went all the way through without rebooting, but I still got some issues, im left with

Installing dependencies ...
npm WARN deprecated time-grunt@2.0.0: Deprecated because Grunt is practically unmaintained. Move on to something better. This package will continue to work with Grunt v1, but it will not receive any updates.
npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.
npm WARN tarball cached data for async@~1.5.2 (sha1-7GphrlZIDAw8skHJVhjiCJL5Zyo=) seems to be corrupted. Refreshing cache.
npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! path /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/coffeescript/bin/coffee
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall chmod
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/coffeescript/bin/coffee'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-02-20T04_31_21_244Z-debug.log
Unable to install dependencies!

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 I think u need to restart the install

Erase the node_modules folder, and do it again

jmartin1009

@sdetweil I erased node_modules and reinstalled magicmirror and got this

Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies ...
npm WARN registry Unexpected warning for https://registry.npmjs.org/: Miscellaneous Warning ENODATA: Cache input stream was empty
npm WARN registry Using stale package data from https://registry.npmjs.org/ due to a request error during revalidation.
npm ERR! code EINTEGRITY
npm ERR! errno EINTEGRITY
npm ERR! Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/feedme: Integrity verification failed for sha512-neorTWnU+xIGoFGw5xKt8oa6Zrp4OIAdLKdTJkmTvESrU1kHYWBEQbxKaFtPAPPX7OiREkBnp0E0/gPN4QnmQg== (/home/pi/.npm/_cacache/content-v2/sha512/9d/ea/2b4d69d4fb1206a051b0e712adf286ba66ba7838801d2ca753264993bc44ab53590761604441bc4a685b4f00f3d7ece891124067a74134fe03cde109e642)

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-02-20T17_49_38_341Z-debug.log
Unable to install dependencies!

What do I do now?

sdetweil

from the /hom/pi folder do

rm -rf .npm
cd MagicMirror
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

jmartin1009

@sdetweil I am now given this, what do I do next?

MagicMirror installation successful!

> magicmirror@2.6.0 install-fonts /home/pi/MagicMirror
> cd fonts && npm install

added 1 package from 1 contributor and audited 1 package in 5.243s
found 0 vulnerabilities

npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.10.1 requires a peer of stylelint@^9.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN acorn-jsx@5.0.1 requires a peer of acorn@^6.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

added 930 packages from 1367 contributors and audited 2433 packages in 160.197s
found 23 vulnerabilities (8 low, 14 moderate, 1 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 if your mirror is not accessible from the internet I would not worry about these vulnerabilities.

jmartin1009

@sdetweil does that mean I can’t use any modules that use the internet? im using ssh to do these codes and I plan to use alexa and stuff with it so it will require internet use, so what did you mean by that?

sdetweil

@jmartin1009 good point. I would run npm audit to get a list of the issues. These generally end up being challenging to solve completely.