MM on Pi Zero fails after being off for a few days

[sdetweil]

@kellogg76 no… its stuck with the chromium-browser not loading…

I think u need to reinstall the chromium browser…

this means there was an update , or there is an sd card problem…

[kellogg76]

@sdetweil looks like the quickest fix is to re-install again. It’s a pain as I probably have to do this about once or twice a year. It can be working great then either the power will unexpectedly go out or I’ll shut it down for some reason and then it takes a full wipe and re-install to get it working again.

[sdetweil]

@kellogg76 use my install script

see here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

rename existing MM folder out of the way
run the install script… it does everything…

(well, not install chromium browser)
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

[sdetweil]

@kellogg76 i have a system that is like that… power messes up everything…

I have moved to boot from sd card, RUN from ssd…

https://jamesachambers.com/raspberry-pi-4-usb-boot-config-guide-for-ssd-flash-drives/
see starting here
USB Boot Instructions

[kellogg76]

@sdetweil I renamed the old MM directory and ran your script

bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)"

Everything went successfully, I can see the display from other computers but the pi just sits at a terminal prompt, is there something I need to do to start things off?

$ pm2 list
┌────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name                    │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status   │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1  │ MagicMirror             │ 2.10.1  │ fork    │ 568      │ 2m     │ 1    │ online   │ 0%       │ 2.5mb    │ pi       │ enabled  │
└────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

[sdetweil]

@kellogg76 did u install chromium-browser
the run-start.sh script depends on it

[kellogg76]

@sdetweil Yes, and then rebooted for good measure. Could it be anything to do with me running Raspbian Lite and not Desktop?

[sdetweil]

@kellogg76 you MUST run desktop for chromium to work…

from the shell, do

pgrep Xorg

it should return a number

[kellogg76]

@sdetweil It seemed to work well without it in the past, has something changed?
I always found the Desktop version really laggy on the Zero so try to avoid it when not necessary.

[sdetweil]

@kellogg76 no idea… never tried lite
you can certainly run serveronly… as u did and the run-start.sh executes…

if you try to run chromium-browser
what happens? on my pi0w desktop it comes up as expected