Black Screen on Startup

[sdetweil]

@norm you can get the file from the local git repo with that checkout comand

[norm]

@sdetweil

I am not very familiar with the various git commands beyond ‘clone’, but as @jasaronii said above, that git checkout command did nothing, hence manual approach.

But thanks for the guess - inspired and very helpful.

N.

[sdetweil]

@norm no. It didn’t give an error. So it did the job I said it would do.

Then he needs to restart the magicmirror

[norm]

@sdetweil

Yes and no:
Yes - it did not give any error message.
No - it did not install the folder and file.

To recap:
I did a new install using the bash auto install script, but for whatever reason the node_helper sub-folder and index.js file were not installed.
Running the git checkout command similarly did not install the sub-folder and file (as the sub-folder and file were not originally installed, it seems logical to me that the git checkout command would not ‘reinstall’ them).
Installed the missing sub-folder and file manually.
Re-started with “pm2 restart mm”.

I guess the pertinent question is why the original install exercise did not include the node_helper sub-folder and index.js file???

[sdetweil]

@norm I do not know why. The file is included in the GitHub repo. It has always been installed so far