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

Gomalley

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

sdetweil

@Gomalley it doesn’t say anything, it just changes ownership of everything in the home folder and down to the user pi.

Now, back to what u were doing before

Gomalley

@sdetweil
I tried to excute some of the commands you gave me

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 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/node_modules
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/2019-08-06T18_59_40_902Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

I ran “pm2 logs” and “npm i -g npm”
Looks like I got similar results. Should I do

npm install

In the MagicMirror folder now?

sdetweil

@Gomalley no. Looks like u installed npm w sudo(root)

So, short term do

sudo npm i -g npm

Gomalley

@sdetweil Sweet I think that worked

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo npm i -g npm
/usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
/usr/local/bin/npx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
+ npm@6.10.3
updated 3 packages in 128.39s
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

Now that I have done that, Should I run

npm install

and then:

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

sdetweil

@Gomalley only

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

Gomalley

@sdetweil

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install

> magicmirror@2.8.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror
> cd vendor && npm install

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.4 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.4: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})

audited 220 packages in 21.352s
found 5 vulnerabilities (4 low, 1 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

> magicmirror@2.8.0 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror
> sh installers/postinstall/postinstall.sh && npm run install-fonts

MagicMirror installation successful!

> magicmirror@2.8.0 install-fonts /home/pi/MagicMirror
> cd fonts && npm install

audited 1 package in 1.151s
found 0 vulnerabilities

audited 3592 packages in 97.711s
found 0 vulnerabilities

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

Looks good. What should I do next?, Try to start the mirror?

sdetweil

@Gomalley yes, start it up

Gomalley

@sdetweil I was able to start up he mirror by doing

cd ~ /MagicMirror
npm start

The mirror started up like usual but it didn’t restart after I exited out of it.

sdetweil

@Gomalley ok, now try

pm2 list

If something is there, try

pm2 start ???

Where name is whatever was shown

If nothing, use my new script, see link in troubleshooting section