PM2 MM2 Not starting on start up

[sebzx10r]

Hey,I kind of did a work around. I found this on another forum:
I also searched for days without success but then, I got it to work quite simply.

In Raspian click Menu,Preferences,Main Menu Editor
Click Preferences and check Default applications for LXSession
Click OK and close main menu editor
Now click Menu and Under Preferences click on Default applications for LXSession
LXSession configuration opens
Click Autostart
Under Manual autostarted applications paste in your java command line
click add
close the LXSession configuration application and reboot your pi
your java app should run after reboot

[nuckinfutz]

@sebzx10r What line did you put in the field? I can’t get it to work.

[Desertswing]

@nuckinfutz
pm2 start mm.sh

[shbatm]

I solved the same issue by using the command:
sudo pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

And then using pm2 save to save the state.

[Desertswing]

@shbatm
will note that down thanks!

[raymate]

@Desertswing No idea what that did but it worked, just need to make it show the weather as that seems to have gone away

[nuckinfutz]

Try here as an alternative

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2716/pm2-alternative

[daikaiju]

@shbatm said in PM2 MM2 Not starting on start up:

sudo pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi

Can also confirm this worked for me, too.

Thank you @shbatm

[pum]

@shbatm I’ve tried the following steps but it still doesn’t work, can you help me?

• sudo pm2 startup systemd -u pi --hp /home/pi
• nano mm.sh
• cd ~/MagicMirror
  DISPLAY=:0 npm start
• CTRL-O
• Enter
• CTRL-X
• chmod +x mm.sh
• pm2 start mm.sh
• pm2 save
• sudo reboot

Thanks in advance.

[shbatm]

@pum 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.

[MarvellousMili]

@shbatm I did all I should follow but it still doesn’t work for me, I’m using Rpi4b. It warning me:

PM2 is not managing any process, skipping save…

Plz help me my boyfriend’s birthday is under eyes!!

Thanks a lot!

[sdetweil]

@MarvellousMili run the fixuppm2.sh script from here

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

[MarvellousMili]

@sdetweil sorry that reply late, I save the pm2 status after reboot again and again then work. I don’t know where’s the problem even now lol

[sdetweil]

@MarvellousMili sorry. not sure what u said

is working ok
or
is NOT working ok

[Seregeth]

Even this tread is old, but i have an issue with the starting of mm:

Everything worked well, then i installed MMM-CECControl.
I saved my config.js file bevor i entered the module line in there. But not as usual mm didn´t restart. Not even after a reboot of my raspberry.

Also when i start mm with
pm2 start mm
and
pm2 start MagicMirror
nothing happened.

i don´t know what i should do to start my mm as bevore…

[sdetweil]

@Seregeth

ok let’s start at the beginning

pm2 status

will show you the names and numbers of the managed apps. you can use either the name or number

now, let’s see if it’s a MagicMirror problem

do

pm2 stop all
cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start

if mm comes up but the screen is not correct, ctrl-m will minimize the mm screen

[sdetweil]

@Seregeth sorry. I hit reject on your message accidentally, please resend it

[Seregeth]

@sdetweil
$ pm2 status
┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name │ mode │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ memory │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1 │ MagicMirror │ fork │ 78 │ online │ 0% │ 2.6mb │
│ 0 │ mm │ fork │ 2 │ stopped │ 0% │ 0b │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
~ $ ^C
~ $ pm2 stop all
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [all](ids: [ 0, 1 ])
[PM2] mm ✓
[PM2] MagicMirror ✓
┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name │ mode │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ memory │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1 │ MagicMirror │ fork │ 117 │ stopped │ 0% │ 0b │
│ 0 │ mm │ fork │ 2 │ stopped │ 0% │ 0b │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
$ cd MagicMirror/
~/MagicMirror $ npm start

magicmirror@2.23.0 start
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found

[sdetweil]

@Seregeth ok, try

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@22.3.4

[Seregeth]

@sdetweil
that´s it, MM startet again after the installation