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

[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

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm i -g npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’]
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR! ‘Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm'’,
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’,
npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’,
npm ERR! path: ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’ }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator (though this is not recommended).

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-08-05T19_21_26_414Z-debug.log

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley go old sudo screws thing up again…

cd ~
sudo chown -R pi .

Then try again…

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil this is what happened when I typed in the command

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chown -R pi
chown: missing operand after ‘pi’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

[sdetweil]

@Gomalley there was a dot at the end, it was important

[Gomalley]

@sdetweil

Sorry, I missed that.
This is what happened

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chown -R pi .
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ 

It just went to the next line. Not sure why