Positions not working

[A Former User]

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[Joshsamuel]

@hango The path is MagicMirror, the ‘r’ is at the start of the next line

[sdetweil]

@hango yep, sorry, missed it…

you don’t open index.html with a browser… its the shell that MM uses to place module output

[sdetweil]

@Joshsamuel error file not found, looks like you didn’t follow some install instructions,

there was a step

npm install

looks like something happened to the node_modules folder where the libraries are saved

[A Former User]

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[Joshsamuel]

@sdetweil I ran npm install in the MM directory, it then said new patch version of npm available (6.14.4 > 6.14.5). I then tried to install this using

npm install -g npm

Then got the following message with some errors:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install -g npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/nopt
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs']
npm ERR!   stack:
npm ERR!    'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs' }
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.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-06-22T17_34_29_233Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ 

[sdetweil]

@Joshsamuel yeh, don’t do that…
to recover do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

[Joshsamuel]

@sdetweil Just did that, still haven’t got position working

[sdetweil]

@Joshsamuel did u examine the error in index.html as suggested>

what does the log look like, both the console log (or pm2 logs --lines=100)
and the developer window console?

you have broken code, so nothing will be working right

[lavolp3]

@Joshsamuel

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’]

npm itself is often installed with sudo priviledge (like here, hence “permission denied”).
Therefore you’d need to do sudo npm install -g npm