Just tried the

pm2 start installers/mm.sh
pm2 save

From within the “MagicMirror” folder and no change. MagicMirror starts and at reboot it does not automaticly start

See below for my fix

Part 2:
@mumblebaj
This seems possible. So i re-ran

sudo npm install -g pm2
pm2 startup

After running “pm2 startup” this time I noticed the following:

To setup the Startup Script, copy/paste the following command:
sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin /usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

So I ran that and followed with the “pm2 start mm.sh” and “pm2 save”. Well now it is auto starting on reboot.

pm2 start installers/mm.sh

That needed to be done from the MagicMirror folder.

Cause I ‘ASSUMED’ if u were working on mm, you would always be in that folder.

installers folder is in mm, not in user home

Looking over the “Auto Start” page I do not see where it states that the pm2 commands are to be run while inside the MagicMirror folder.

With you stating that it seems to be saying that the “mm.sh” script needs to be ran from inside the “MagicMirror” too. Again the “Auto Start” page shows that it was created inside the ‘home’ (~) folder. So one would think/presume it can be ran from inside the “home” folder also.

Either way I will give it a go.

permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Sun Jul 28 20:48:49 2019
pi@magicmirror:~ $ pm2 list
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬─────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴─────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror:~ $ pm2 start installers/mm.sh
[PM2][ERROR] script not found : /home/pi/installers/mm.sh
script not found : /home/pi/installers/mm.sh
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬─────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴─────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror:~ $ pm2 start mm.sh
[PM2] Starting /home/pi/mm.sh in fork_mode (1 instance)
[PM2] Done.
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm       │ 0  │ N/A     │ fork │ 718 │ online │ 0       │ 0s     │ 0%  │ 2.6 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror:~ $ pm2 save
[PM2] Saving current process list...
[PM2] Successfully saved in /home/pi/.pm2/dump.pm2
pi@magicmirror:~ $ pm2 list
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm       │ 0  │ N/A     │ fork │ 718 │ online │ 0       │ 44s    │ 0%  │ 2.6 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror:~ $ pm2 save
[PM2] Saving current process list...
[PM2] Successfully saved in /home/pi/.pm2/dump.pm2
pi@magicmirror:~ $ sudo reboot
Connection to 192.168.138.28 closed by remote host.
Connection to 192.168.138.28 closed.

pi@magicmirror:~ $ cat mm.sh
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start
pi@magicmirror:~ $ ls -lha mm.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi 45 Jul 28 20:14 mm.sh
pi@magicmirror:~ $ 

pm2 list

The "name, id, mode, status, cpu, and memory chart shows up. It is all in blue.
Below it, it says “use ‘pm2 show <id/name>~ to get more details about an app.’”

When i type in

pm2 start

The same chart above displays along with a message saying
[PM2] [ERROR] File ecosystem.config.js is not found

What does this mean?

pm2 list

If nothing

pm2 start installers/mm.sh
pm2 save

cd ~/MagicMirror

Now i tried two things both gave same output

cd ~/home/pi/MagicMirror

and

cd /home/pi/MagicMirror

It now says
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
Use --update-env to update environment variables
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [0](ids: [ ‘0’ ])
[PM2] [ERROR] Process 0 not found

In my mm.sh the file currently reads this:
cd /home/pi/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start

It should read

cd /home/pi/MagicMirror
...etc

Change it if not.

Then

pm2 restart 0

after a few reboots now everything is starting fine.
A big thanks to the community here!
Very helpfull people here!

@madoXX does it restart on boot?

pm2 remove 0
should have been
pm2 delete 0

and yep, needed a stop after the pm2 save

no, the boot menu from the magic mirror appears (booting up), no error but it goes straight to the desktop.

something strang here

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

then
pm2 list

nothing running

In fact the themm.sh is running caus i startet it above

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 start /home/pi/mm.sh

pm2 remove 0
should have been
pm2 delete 0

and yep, needed a stop after the pm2 save

1st make sure script works
is it executable?
chmod +x mm.sh

ok, done

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

/home/pi/mm.sh &
(and stop it)
then

don’t get this…
should i enter
pm2 stop /home/pi/mm.sh &

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 remove 0

when i enter this, this appears:
[PM2] Command not found

usage: pm2 [options]

pm2 -h, --help all available commands and options
pm2 examples display pm2 usage examples
pm2 -h help on a specific command

Access pm2 files in ~/.pm2
[1]+ Fertig pm2 stop /home/pi/mm.sh

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 startup
ok, had to enter this one:
sudo env PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin /usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

After the enter this one appeared:
[PM2] Init System found: systemd
Platform systemd
Template
[Unit]
Description=PM2 process manager
Documentation=https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=pi
LimitNOFILE=infinity
LimitNPROC=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity
Environment=PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Environment=PM2_HOME=/home/pi/.pm2
PIDFile=/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid
Restart=on-failure

ExecStart=/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 resurrect
ExecReload=/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 reload all
ExecStop=/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 kill

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Target path
/etc/systemd/system/pm2-pi.service
Command list
[ ‘systemctl enable pm2-pi’ ]
[PM2] Writing init configuration in /etc/systemd/system/pm2-pi.service
[PM2] Making script booting at startup…

[PM2] Remove init script via:
$ pm2 unstartup systemd

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 start /home/pi/mm.sh

here this is the result:
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] mm ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ N/A │ fork │ 15797 │ online │ 0 │ 0s │ 0% │ 2.4 MB │ pi │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 save

Result
[PM2] Saving current process list…
[PM2] Successfully saved in /home/pi/.pm2/dump.pm2

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 list

nothing running

Yes there is the mm running:
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ N/A │ fork │ 15797 │ online │ 0 │ 103s │ 0% │ 2.4 MB │ pi │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

@sdetweil said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

pm2 start mm

should start ok

perhaps no…
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] mm ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ N/A │ fork │ 16995 │ online │ 1 │ 0s │ 0% │ 2.5 MB │ pi │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

Thanks anyway for your help!

File ecosystem.config.js not found

ok, seems pm2 is not setup right

1st make sure script works
is it executable?
chmod +x mm.sh

/home/pi/mm.sh &
(and stop it)
then 

pm2 remove 0
pm2 startup
   this will return a command u need to execute (cut/paste)
pm2 start /home/pi/mm.sh
pm2 save

then

pm2 list

nothing running

pm2 start mm

should start ok

reboot

@madoXX said in Problems with starting pm2 start mm.sh:

cd ~/MagicMirror

change that 1st line to be

cd /home/pi/MagicMirror

pm2 is running under root at the time of startup

changed it, saved and made a reboot. nothing changed.

when i write pm2 start i receive the following message:

[PM2][ERROR] File ecosystem.config.js not found
┌──────────┬────┬─────────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ version │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼─────────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm │ 0 │ N/A │ fork │ 838 │ online │ 0 │ 3m │ 0% │ 2.4 MB │ pi │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴─────────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
Use pm2 show <id|name> to get more details about an app

cd ~/MagicMirror

change that 1st line to be

cd /home/pi/MagicMirror

pm2 is running under root at the time of startup

Did you also follow this point:

Starting PM2 on boat
To make sure PM2 can do it’s job when (re) booting your operating system, it needs to be started on boot. Luckily, PM2 has a handy helper for this.

pm2 startup
PM2 wants to show you a command you need to execute.

Thanks for your reply. For the moment i want to know why it doesn’t even start, when i try to start it manually.

Moreover, here the content of the file mm.sh (saved in /home/pi)

cd ~/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=:0 npm start