MM2 not loading text

[Beth]

hi i made my MM2 a year or so ago and it has worked fine but recently on boot it will show the mm2 screen and then not load the text it just shows a black screen i have tried to log into vnc but the RPI refuses the connection i tried swapping RPI’s and that didn’t work i also can’t open a command window or shut it down what should i do?

[cowboysdude]

@beth run it in ‘dev mode’ and see what the output is.

[sdetweil]

@cowboysdude they can’t get into the machine… vnc doesn’t connect

[swvalenti]

Did the IP change by chance? Check to see if IP is static and ssh into pi that way.

[Beth]

@swvalenti how do i check?

[sdetweil]

@beth check your router to see if the system has a reserved address

u can find its address with
ifconfig command in a terminal window

ethxx is ethernet wired
wlanxx is wireless lan

[swvalenti]

@Beth what Sam said

[Beth]

UPDATE: there is a command window that papers on the boot up screen it does not leave i connected keyboard/mouse to it and can enter commands like a terminal window although pm2start will not work and npm start gives the following err (note i copied this by hand so there may be slight imperfections)

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! sysca11 open
npm ERR! path /home/pi/package . json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package . jason’
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

[sdetweil]

@beth said in MM2 not loading text:

/home/pi/

u are not in the MagicMirror folder for npm start

and its pm2 start (notice the space)

pm2 status will show u the pm2 currently managed apps

[Beth]

@sdetweil i did that and it gave me the following err:
[PM2] spawning PM2 daemon with pm2 _home=/home/pi.pm2
[PM2] PM2 successfully daemonized
[PM2] [ERROR] Script not found: /home/pi/MagicMirror/mm.sh