PM2 not starting up on boot

Nazfera2 · Nov 27, 2016, 4:31 PM

Hey Guys,

1st timer here, i got my mirror exactly how i want it.
only one part missing and i am getting that Monday.

Side from that, i am having trouble with PM2 starting up electron on boot.
somehow i was able to do this but i damaged the config.js file, and decided to do a full reinstall of magic mirror.
Any help on getting PM2 to auto start as soon as its on Jessie GUI Desktop ?

roramirez · Nov 27, 2016, 4:53 PM

You need start the script of run the MagicMirror system. After that save the configuration of PM2 with pm2 save

There a good documentation how to do in https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror

Nazfera2 · Nov 27, 2016, 6:21 PM

@roramirez That is exactly why i opened this up, i followed the instructions and still nothing.

gshimself · Nov 28, 2016, 6:32 AM

I have the same problem and have not yet tried to fixed it (Yea, Im lazy)… But I did another MM where it just works…
I have a theory… I think (just think, absolute not sure) that you have to “npm install && npm start” in “/MagicMirror” folder that got mine working.

As I said, not tried this theory yet…

roramirez · Nov 28, 2016, 1:23 PM

After a reboot… what is the output for
pm2 list

PS: Maybe your script (mm.sh) not have execution permission.

Nazfera2 · Nov 28, 2016, 11:01 PM

@roramirez i did pm2 list, and there is nothing under App name

Image here

how do i give (mm.sh) execution permission ?
is it ?

chmod +x mm.sh

this command was already done.

Nazfera2 · Nov 28, 2016, 10:53 PM

@gshimself nothing, the best bet is to reinstall raspberian again and see.

THIS I DON’T WANT TO DO.

roramirez · Nov 29, 2016, 2:26 AM

@Nazfera2 not is the best, is the last resource ;)

Maybe the problem raise the pm2 install.

Check https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/1654#issuecomment-145071292