updated installer script available for testing

sdetweil

@bhepler oh, there is a script for just pm2 as well.

Thx for feedback.

NathTheDude

Thanks for this, made my life a lot easier.

So, I just did a new build with Buster on a RPI Zero W. All looked good and I have configured mm2 to start on reboot of the Pi. I am start/stop/restart and check the status of mm2 and is looks to be working, the mm2 logs are also good with no error logs.

The problem I am facing is that the magicMirror page via chromium seems to try and load (white screen which changes to a pure black screen) however seems to fail/crash and go back to the Raspbian desktop.

This happens when I reboot the pi and also when I manually try to start/restart the mm2 service.

Anything you think I am missing?

Thanks

sdetweil

@NathTheDude if u start the chromium browser from the desktop does it work?

sdetweil

U may need to increase the swap space. Pi 0 has very little memory.

https://wpitchoune.net/tricks/raspberry_pi3_increase_swap_size.html

NathTheDude

Thanks @sdetweil , after a couple of reboots this is now working as expected. Not sure what the issue was, I will have to keep an eye on it. Thanks for the link on swap space, I will also look in that direction if I have any more of the same issues.

sdetweil

@NathTheDude ok… let me know if there are any other issues…

sdetweil

@sdetweil this installer script is now the script in 2.10…

I will close/lock this topic in a couple days

jorgnyg

Should I install electron with --arch=armv7l ?

jorgnyg

@jorgnyg Yea guess so. Installation fails on rpi zero. So I deleted the electron folder from node_modules, and ran npm install --arch=armv7l electron@3.0.13

sdetweil

@jorgnyg doesn’t fail on my pi 0.

Can u send me the install.log

sdetweil

@sdetweil note that we made electron optional. There is no armv6l at node 10
So we will run in split mode use chromium

jorgnyg

@sdetweil sure thing. Guess this is the most relevant error

26380 verbose stack Error: electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
26380 verbose stack Exit status 1
26380 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
26380 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:198:13)
26380 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
26380 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
26380 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
26380 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
26381 verbose pkgid electron-chromedriver@1.8.0
26382 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
26383 verbose Linux 4.19.75+
26384 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
26385 verbose node v10.18.1
26386 verbose npm  v6.13.4
26387 error code ELIFECYCLE
26388 error errno 1
26389 error electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install: `node ./download-chromedriver.js`
26389 error Exit status 1
26390 error Failed at the electron-chromedriver@1.8.0 install script.
26390 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
26391 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

sdetweil

@jorgnyg the run-start.sh script now handles this problem and launches chromium instead of electron to connect to mm in serveronly mode

jorgnyg

@sdetweil got it!

jthirasilpa

Hi - firstly thanks for putting together this installer!

I am running Raspbian on RP3b+ as a fresh install using the command

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh | bash

Installer indicated successful install of MagicMirror.

Using SSH DISPLAY=:0 npm start gives the following error:

magicmirror@2.10.1 start /home/jojo/MagicMirror
./run-start.sh

No protocol specified

(electron:17801): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:36:26.218: cannot open display: :0
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.10.1 start: ./run-start.sh
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/jojo/.npm/_logs/2020-01-25T18_36_26_308Z-debug.log

Debug log contents are as follows:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/bin/node’, ‘/usr/bin/npm’, ‘start’ ]
2 info using npm@6.13.4
3 info using node@v10.18.1
4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~prestart: magicmirror@2.10.1
6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: magicmirror@2.10.1
7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/home/jojo/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: CWD: /home/jojo/MagicMirror
10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: Args: [ ‘-c’, ‘./run-start.sh’ ]
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.10.1 start: ./run-start.sh
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:198:13)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.10.1
15 verbose cwd /home/jojo/MagicMirror
16 verbose Linux 4.19.75-v7+
17 verbose argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” “start”
18 verbose node v10.18.1
19 verbose npm v6.13.4
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error magicmirror@2.10.1 start: ./run-start.sh
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot? Many thanks.

sdetweil

@jthirasilpa seems like you are running in console mode, instead of graphical mode.

Mm requires the full desktop.

jthirasilpa

@sdetweil Thanks. The RP is running a full desktop - if I run npm start directly from the RP, the debug log gives the following output:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ ‘/usr/bin/node’, ‘/usr/bin/npm’, ‘start’ ]
2 info using npm@6.13.4
3 info using node@v10.18.1
4 verbose run-script [ ‘prestart’, ‘start’, ‘poststart’ ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~prestart: magicmirror@2.10.1
6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: magicmirror@2.10.1
7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/home/jojo/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: CWD: /home/jojo/MagicMirror
10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: Args: [ ‘-c’, ‘./run-start.sh’ ]
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.10.1~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.10.1 start: ./run-start.sh
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:198:13)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.10.1
15 verbose cwd /home/jojo/MagicMirror
16 verbose Linux 4.19.75-v7+
17 verbose argv “/usr/bin/node” “/usr/bin/npm” “start”
18 verbose node v10.18.1
19 verbose npm v6.13.4
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error magicmirror@2.10.1 start: ./run-start.sh
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.10.1 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

sdetweil

@jthirasilpa change line 1 of run-start.sh to be

#~/bin/bash -x

then do the npm start again…

also do

 which chromium-browser

my system returns
/usr/bin/chromium-browser

can u send me the MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log via email

same userid as here, at gmail

thanks

sdetweil

@sdetweil sorry, typo on run-start

#!/bin/bash -x

Neebotol

Hello there!

Thank you for this script, it has worked better than the original one for me. But I still really unlucky and have an issue.

Here it is :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirr  or_scripts/master/raspberry.sh | bash

$$\      $$\                     $$\           $$\      $$\ $$\                                            $$$$$$\
$$$\    $$$ |                    \__|          $$$\    $$$ |\__|                                          $$  __$$\
$$$$\  $$$$ | $$$$$$\   $$$$$$\  $$\  $$$$$$$\ $$$$\  $$$$ |$$\  $$$$$$\   $$$$$  $\   $$$$$$\   $$$$$$\  \__/  $$ |
$$\$$\$$ $$ | \____$$\ $$  __$$\ $$ |$$  _____|$$\$$\$$ $$ |$$ |$$  __$$\ $$  __  $$\ $$  __$$\ $$  __$$\  $$$$$$  |
$$ \$$$  $$ | $$$$$$$ |$$ /  $$ |$$ |$$ /      $$ \$$$  $$ |$$ |$$ |  \__|$$ |    \__|$$ /  $$ |$$ |  \__|$$  ____/
$$ |\$  /$$ |$$  __$$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |\$  /$$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |        $$ |  $$ |$$ |      $$ |
$$ | \_/ $$ |\$$$$$$$ |\$$$$$$$ |$$ |\$$$$$$$\ $$ | \_/ $$ |$$ |$$ |      $$ |        \$$$$$$  |$$ |      $$$$$$$$\
\__|     \__| \_______| \____$$ |\__| \_______|\__|     \__|\__|\__|      \__|         \______/ \__|      \________|
                       $$\   $$ |
                       \$$$$$$  |
                        \______/

install log being saved to /home/pi/install.log
Updating packages ...
Installing helper tools ...
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
build-essential est déjà la version la plus récente (12.6).
curl est déjà la version la plus récente (7.64.0-4).
unzip est déjà la version la plus récente (6.0-23+deb10u1).
wget est déjà la version la plus récente (1.20.1-1.1).
wget passé en « installé manuellement ».
Paquets suggérés :
  git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitwe
Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
  git
1 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 166 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 4 203 ko dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 33,8 ko d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Réception de :1 http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf gi
4 203 ko réceptionnés en 2s (2 281 ko/s)
apt-listchanges : Lecture des fichiers de modifications (« changelog »)...
(Lecture de la base de données... 93835 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de .../git_1%3a2.20.1-2+deb10u1_armhf.deb ...
Dépaquetage de git (1:2.20.1-2+deb10u1) sur (1:2.20.1-2) ...
Paramétrage de git (1:2.20.1-2+deb10u1) ...
Check current Node installation ...
Node.js is not installed.
Installing Node.js ...
Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal)
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  nodejs
0 mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 166 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 14,6 Mo dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 77,3 Mo d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Réception de :1 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_10.x buster/main armhf nodejs armhf 10.18.1-1nodesource1 [14,6 MB]
14,6 Mo réceptionnés en 11s (1 365 ko/s)
Sélection du paquet nodejs précédemment désélectionné.
(Lecture de la base de données... 93842 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de .../nodejs_10.18.1-1nodesource1_armhf.deb ...
Dépaquetage de nodejs (10.18.1-1nodesource1) ...
Paramétrage de nodejs (10.18.1-1nodesource1) ...
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
node version is
Node.js installation Done! version=v10.18.1
Check current NPM installation ...
NPM currently installed. Checking version number.
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'rimraf'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fs-vacuum/vacuum.js:6:14)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
Minimum npm version: V6.0.0
Installed npm version: V
npm should be upgraded.
Installing npm ...
E: Impossible de corriger les problèmes, des paquets défectueux sont en mode « garder en l'état ».
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'rimraf'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fs-vacuum/vacuum.js:6:14)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'rimraf'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fs-vacuum/vacuum.js:6:14)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
npm installation Done! version=V
Cloning MagicMirror ...
Clonage dans 'MagicMirror'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 331, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (331/331), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (295/295), done.
remote: Total 331 (delta 42), reused 193 (delta 23), pack-reused 0
Réception d'objets: 100% (331/331), 676.44 KiB | 1.57 MiB/s, fait.
Résolution des deltas: 100% (42/42), fait.
Cloning MagicMirror Done!
Installing dependencies ...
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'rimraf'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fs-vacuum/vacuum.js:6:14)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
Unable to install dependencies!

Any idea please? Honnestly I have spent so much time on this project, all my past weekend and some hours in the week. I tried many things, with several tutorials, raspian stretch, buster… I’m a little desperate, but I’m not giving up!

Thanks