After 2.8 I'm having tons of issues. What are the steps from square 1 to get this working?

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley do

pm2 logs

More than likely u need to do

npm install

In the MagicMirror folder, and in each module folder that has a package.json file.

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil aright. I’ll try that however I’ve done it before and no luck. How would I do it for the other modules and package.json files. All I know what to do is just to type the command

Npm install

But It doesn’t work

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley case sensitive, must be

npm install

Look in the modules folder and each of those for a package.json file.
And if u find one, then in that folder do

npm install 

There

You could also try my update script. I haven’t tried it over an attempted update

See here
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-update-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil
So I deleted everything and I started over. On a new load of raspbian without doing the MM bash command, I typed

npm install

It gave me this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm install
npm WARN npm npm does not support Node.js v10.15.2
npm WARN npm You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
npm WARN npm can't make any promises that npm will work with this version.
npm WARN npm Supported releases of Node.js are the latest release of 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.
npm WARN npm You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/pi/package.json'
npm WARN pi No description
npm WARN pi No repository field.
npm WARN pi No README data
npm WARN pi No license field.

up to date in 1.599s

After this I tried your new code and I got this:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bash -c  "$(curl -sL https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qod39yi8ek0feu/upgrade-script?dl=0)"
bash: line 24: cd: /home/pi/MagicMirror/installers: No such file or directory
bash: line 26: cd: OLDPWD not set
doing test run = true
bash: line 61: /home/pi/MagicMirror/installers/dumpactivemodules.js: No such file or directory
update log will be in /home/pi/upgrade.log
bash: line 70: cd: /home/pi/MagicMirror: No such file or directory
bash: line 72: cd: css: No such file or directory
saving custom.css
cp: cannot stat 'custom.css': No such file or directory
bash: line 75: cd: OLDPWD not set
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
fetching latest revisions
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
MagicMirror git pull failed
bash: line 183: cd: css: No such file or directory
restoring custom.css
cp: cannot stat 'save_custom.css': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'save_custom.css': No such file or directory
bash: line 188: cd: OLDPWD not set
bash: line 210: cd: OLDPWD not set

Should I try running the original bash command?:
bash -c “$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/installers/raspberry.sh)”

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley you are missing some fundamentals.

THIS is called install

git clone ....  copies the code from github to your system
     at this point it will not run
     you need to change to the MagicMirror folder and execute npm install so that all the additional node 
        routines needed are loaded onto your system

now, once you have installed

there are updates every quarter…

so, then in the MagicMirror folder you need to download the new code OVER the prior code
so, you do

cd ~/MagicMirror
git pull

but we are in the same position as during install…
routines we need may have changed, or we may have decided to use something different

so, once again, to get all the updates for other code we use

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

BUT there is one more step…
any modules YOU installed may have dependencies too
SO, they (like MagicMirror) specify those dependencies in a package.json file

so, we need to look thru ALL the non-default module folders looking for a package.json file
if we find one, we need to run npm install in that modules folder too.
repeat til all module folders with a package.json file

now…

the install script (raspberry.sh) does the
git clone
and
npm install in tghe MagicMirror folder.

my update script
does all the update steps… (I just added a check for the MagicMirror folder being present)
but you had to have done the install steps first…

npm install by itself without download any MagicMirror code doesn’t do anything useful, as there is no package.json file in the uses home folder by default.

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil I tried putting npm install into the modules and vendor folders but there weren’t that many json files in that directory.

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley no. In the modules/MMM-??? Folders for the modules u have installed in addition to the base MagicMirror

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil when i go to /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules
these are the folders present: Default, node_modules, README.md
If i further click into default i get a ton more (alert, calendar, clock, compliment s, currentweather, helloworld , newsfeed, …) Other than the magicmirror program, I have not installed anything else

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley ok, wasnt clear u had just the base MagicMirror.

If you do pm2 logs, what does it show?

Also, what does npm -v show?

U may need to upgrade npm

npm i -g npm

Then do the npm install again in the MagicMirror folder

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pm2 logs
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘shelljs’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
at require (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:161:20)
at module.exports.Client.launchDaemon (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:244:7)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:103:10
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:311:14
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm -v
6.10.2
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

This is what happened when I did pm2 logs and npm -v. I am about to see what npm i -g npm will do