After 2.8 I'm having tons of issues. What are the steps from square 1 to get this working?

sdetweil

@Gomalley you are missing some fundamentals.

THIS is called install

git clone ....  copies the code from github to your system
     at this point it will not run
     you need to change to the MagicMirror folder and execute npm install so that all the additional node 
        routines needed are loaded onto your system

now, once you have installed

there are updates every quarter…

so, then in the MagicMirror folder you need to download the new code OVER the prior code
so, you do

cd ~/MagicMirror
git pull

but we are in the same position as during install…
routines we need may have changed, or we may have decided to use something different

so, once again, to get all the updates for other code we use

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

BUT there is one more step…
any modules YOU installed may have dependencies too
SO, they (like MagicMirror) specify those dependencies in a package.json file

so, we need to look thru ALL the non-default module folders looking for a package.json file
if we find one, we need to run npm install in that modules folder too.
repeat til all module folders with a package.json file

now…

the install script (raspberry.sh) does the
git clone
and
npm install in tghe MagicMirror folder.

my update script
does all the update steps… (I just added a check for the MagicMirror folder being present)
but you had to have done the install steps first…

npm install by itself without download any MagicMirror code doesn’t do anything useful, as there is no package.json file in the uses home folder by default.

Gomalley

@sdetweil I tried putting npm install into the modules and vendor folders but there weren’t that many json files in that directory.

sdetweil

@Gomalley no. In the modules/MMM-??? Folders for the modules u have installed in addition to the base MagicMirror

Gomalley

@sdetweil when i go to /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules
these are the folders present: Default, node_modules, README.md
If i further click into default i get a ton more (alert, calendar, clock, compliment s, currentweather, helloworld , newsfeed, …) Other than the magicmirror program, I have not installed anything else

sdetweil

@Gomalley ok, wasnt clear u had just the base MagicMirror.

If you do pm2 logs, what does it show?

Also, what does npm -v show?

U may need to upgrade npm

npm i -g npm

Then do the npm install again in the MagicMirror folder

Gomalley

@sdetweil
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pm2 logs
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:583
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘shelljs’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:581:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:507:25)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
at require (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:161:20)
at module.exports.Client.launchDaemon (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:244:7)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:103:10
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Client.js:311:14
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm -v
6.10.2
pi@raspberrypi:~ $

This is what happened when I did pm2 logs and npm -v. I am about to see what npm i -g npm will do

Gomalley

@sdetweil
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm i -g npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/local/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’]
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR! ‘Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm'’,
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’,
npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’,
npm ERR! path: ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm’ }
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 (though this is not recommended).

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2019-08-05T19_21_26_414Z-debug.log

sdetweil

@Gomalley go old sudo screws thing up again…

cd ~
sudo chown -R pi .

Then try again…

Gomalley

@sdetweil this is what happened when I typed in the command

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chown -R pi
chown: missing operand after ‘pi’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

sdetweil

@Gomalley there was a dot at the end, it was important