Blank screen with error in terminal upon start.

sdetweil

@dcarls91 start the mirror with the developers window open

npm start dev

then use the mouse to select the tab labeled ‘console’ and scroll up…

some piece of code (module_name.js) is having a fatal error, and the UI has died…

dcarls91

So I tired this and it tells me that the dev tools was disconnected from the page. I have also gone in and ran an audit and updated all packages. This is with a fresh install of Magic Mirror as well as all modules

sdetweil

@dcarls91 if u added back modules, did u check and run npm install in the module folders where they had a package.json file?

if you do npm start from a terminal window, you might get some error messages…

I would go back to the base config.js and start adding one module at a time…

dcarls91

@sdetweil I will do that. I went into all of my modules and and ran npm install as well

dcarls91

It may also be an electron issue

lavolp3

@dcarls91 I’m not sure if what you did was right.

For me the best way and proven a hundred times is:

sit at an external device (laptop/PC)
SSH into the mirror
npm start dev
open the mirror’s page on a browser on the laptop/PC (http://IP.OF.THE.MIRROR:8080)
check the shell console (where you did the npm start dev) as well as the developer’s console of the browser for errors.

There will be something that will help you find the error

sdetweil

@dcarls91 said in Blank screen with error in terminal upon start.:

I went into all of my modules and and ran npm install as well

IF they do NOT have a package.json file as part of a module, then there is a bad side effect or a required file beging deleted

you can check

cd ~/MagicMirror
ls modules/node_modules/node_helper/index.js

if the file is there, all good,
if not do this

cd ~/MagicMirror
git checkout modules/node_modules/node_helper/index.js