Positions not working

[Joshsamuel]

@hango The path is MagicMirror, the ‘r’ is at the start of the next line

[sdetweil]

@hango yep, sorry, missed it…

you don’t open index.html with a browser… its the shell that MM uses to place module output

[sdetweil]

@Joshsamuel error file not found, looks like you didn’t follow some install instructions,

there was a step

npm install

looks like something happened to the node_modules folder where the libraries are saved

[A Former User]

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[Joshsamuel]

@sdetweil I ran npm install in the MM directory, it then said new patch version of npm available (6.14.4 > 6.14.5). I then tried to install this using

npm install -g npm

Then got the following message with some errors:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm install -g npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/nopt
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs']
npm ERR!   stack:
npm ERR!    'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs' }
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.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-06-22T17_34_29_233Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ 

[sdetweil]

@Joshsamuel yeh, don’t do that…
to recover do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

[Joshsamuel]

@sdetweil Just did that, still haven’t got position working

[sdetweil]

@Joshsamuel did u examine the error in index.html as suggested>

what does the log look like, both the console log (or pm2 logs --lines=100)
and the developer window console?

you have broken code, so nothing will be working right

[lavolp3]

@Joshsamuel

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’]

npm itself is often installed with sudo priviledge (like here, hence “permission denied”).
Therefore you’d need to do sudo npm install -g npm

[BKeyport]

By the way, the regions are:

top_bar
bottom_bar
top_left
bottom_left
top_center
bottom_center
top_right
bottom_right
upper_third
lower_third
middle_center
fullscreen_above
fullscreen_below

[Joshsamuel]

@lavolp3 I ran the npm install in the MM directory and the update, no error messages this time, but position still doesn’t work

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd ~/MagicMirror
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install
npm WARN lifecycle magicmirror@2.11.0~install: cannot run in wd magicmirror@2.11.0 echo "Installing vendor files ...
npm WARN lifecycle " && cd vendor && npm install --loglevel=error (wd=/home/pi/MagicMirror)
npm WARN lifecycle magicmirror@2.11.0~postinstall: cannot run in wd magicmirror@2.11.0 npm run install-fonts && echo "MagicMirror installation finished successfully! 
npm WARN lifecycle " (wd=/home/pi/MagicMirror)
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.1.3 (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})

audited 1082 packages in 20.995s

77 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 3 low severity vulnerabilities
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install -g npm
/usr/bin/npm -> /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
/usr/bin/npx -> /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
+ npm@6.14.5
updated 5 packages in 38.973s

[Joshsamuel]

Hi all, just realised that the positions are working for me but the specific module (MMM-ATM which supposedly works well anywhere) has issues when placed in the middle.

Moving the news bar and other modules to lower_third or middle_center works fine, definitely should’ve tested this from the beginning.

Thanks for all the help from everyone!

[BKeyport]

@Joshsamuel glad you got it fixed.