MagicMirror won't start after update

harrycool25

After the recent update (yes, I used the reccommeded command from the FAQ ), MagicMirror just won’t start. When attempting to start it using pm2 (previously worked normally), it says it’s started, but no windows show up whatsoever. Then, when I try to run

npm start

inside the /MagicMirror folder, this error pops up:

> magicmirror@2.10.1 start /home/pi/MagicMirror
> ./run-start.sh

App threw an error during load
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/ws/lib/websocket.js:347
      ...options
      ^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ...
    at createScript (vm.js:74:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:116:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:533:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/ws/index.js:3:19)
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/ws/lib/websocket.js:347
      ...options
      ^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ...
    at createScript (vm.js:74:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:116:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:533:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/ws/index.js:3:19)

Can anyone assist me in diagnosing this mess? I am very new to Linux so I have zero idea what’s going on here.

Thank you all so much, and have a nice day.

sdetweil

@harrycool25 how did u update?

sdetweil

@harrycool25 said in MagicMirror won’t start after update:

yes, I used the reccommeded command from the FAQ

i suspect you did

git pull

but did NOT do the

npm install

required for this update

harrycool25

@sdetweil
I’ve also run

npm install

inside the MagicMirror folder when updating. No idea what happened next. Is there anyway I could, I don’t know, revert changes?

sdetweil

@harrycool25 ok, let’s see if we can fix it

Do

cd ~/MagicMirror
rm -rf node_modules
npm install

Then
npm start