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    Can't get pm2 to auto launch after reboot

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    • G Offline
      gmgarcia719
      last edited by

      I’ve Done all of the below steps bit it till wont auto launch when i reboot the PI

      We want Magic Mirror to start up automatically, so type in the following command:
      pm2 startup

      Now create a shell script for startup. Open up the built-in text editor on the Pi by typing in:
      cd ~
      nano mm.sh
      The lower line basically means, “open up a file called mm.sh in the nano text editor.”

      When the text editor has opened, add this to the mm.sh file:
      cd ~/MagicMirror
      DISPLAY=:0 npm start
      Exit the editor by pressing ctrl+x and type in y to save the file.

      Make your shiny new script executable by typing in:
      chmod +x mm.sh

      Now start up Magic Mirror and make it start up on boot:
      pm2 start mm.sh

      pm2 save

      Now, reboot your Pi by typing in
      sudo reboot

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      • ejay-ibmE Offline
        ejay-ibm Project Sponsor Module Developer @gmgarcia719
        last edited by

        @gmgarcia719 said in Can't get pm2 to auto launch after reboot:

        pm2 start mm.sh
        pm2 save

        instead try
        pm2 start mm

        pm2 save

        ejay

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        • ChrisC Offline
          Chris
          last edited by

          Hello,
          test this:

          there is an existing script provided by MagicMirror now, please try deleting everything on your ~/.pm2 directory, then using:

          sudo su -c "env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin pm2 startup linux -u pi --hp /home/pi"
              pm2 start ~/MagicMirror/installers/pm2_MagicMirror.json
              pm2 save
          

          You may have to use systemd instead of linux in the first line if you get an error.

          This solution is not mine but Shbatm.

          See this post: Here

          cordially

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          • wishmaster270W Offline
            wishmaster270 Module Developer
            last edited by

            Hi,
            i had the same problem the last weeks.
            It looks like pm2 creates the startup script for systemd with wrong parameters.
            You should check if there exists a file “/etc/systemd/systemd/pm2-pi.service”
            In my case the file existed but contained the following lines:

            USER=root which should be USER=pi
            Environment=PM2_HOME=/root/.pm2 which should be Environment=PM2_HOME=/home/pi/.pm2
            PIDFile=/root/.pm2/pm2.pid which should be PIDFile=/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid

            If the file does not exist you can create it with:
            sudo pm2 startup systemd -u pi

            But you need to check the values again after creating it.
            In the end you can enable the script with:
            sudo systemd enable pm2-pi.service

            The parts in described by @Chris are needed as well

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