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    MM cant boot, wont boot!

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    • N Offline
      nicoz
      last edited by

      Hi,
      Complete noob here so please word your responses for 10 year olds :-)

      Recently my MagicMirror has been booting to a black sceen. A literal black screen, and the only way to remove it is to minimize the window.
      I think the problem started when i tried to update the program. I have tried since to update and think i have succeeded however now it seems not not boot at all. Even manually via SSH

      My pi just boots to the standard UI.

      Any Ideas???

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        sdetweil @nicoz
        last edited by

        @nicoz if u updated, (git pull) did u npm install after?

        also, sometimes existing modules need to have their stuff refreshed after the base refreshes
        (all leading to black screen)

        I have a script for future updates that figures this all out…

        in the short term, make sure you did

        cd ~/MagicMirror
        npm install
        

        then check each module folder, and if there is an package.json file, also do the

        npm install 
        

        for each such folder
        then restart mm

        Sam

        How to add modules

        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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        • BKeyportB Offline
          BKeyport Module Developer
          last edited by

          One other thing you can do is run “npm run config:check” in the magicmirror root directory (~/MagicMirror) - it’ll run through and see if there’s anything that’s slightly out of wack to blank the mirror but not out of wack enough to throw an error. It’s saved me lots of headaches several times.

          The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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            nicoz
            last edited by

            npm install seemed to work in that i dont get a black screen anymore.

            npm start will start the mirror but for some reason it wont stay open. i come back to the mirror and i am back at the Rasbian Home screen?

            i also tried config:check but i dont really know what im looking at

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              sdetweil @nicoz
              last edited by

              @nicoz when u do npm start is shows messages to the screen…

              can you do

              npm start > somefile 2>&1

              and when it ends, look at somefile

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                Cyric @BKeyport
                last edited by

                @BKeyport said in MM cant boot, wont boot!:

                One other thing you can do is run “npm run config:check” in the magicmirror root directory (~/MagicMirror) - it’ll run through and see if there’s anything that’s slightly out of wack to blank the mirror but not out of wack enough to throw an error. It’s saved me lots of headaches several times.

                I am having this same issue. I ran the update and everything was fine except my calendar and the 2 day weather thing, which looks like a known bug. I rebooted and am only getting a black screen with the mouse cursor. I did some digging and ran the npm install on the main magic mirror directory, and the directories for the modules i’m using, and it’s still not working. I tried to do the npm run config:check and it came back with an error saying " > magicmirror@2.11.0 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror

                node tests/configs/check_config.js

                internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
                throw err;
                ^

                Error: Cannot find module ‘/home/pi/MagicMirror/tests/configs/check_config.js’
                at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
                at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
                at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:831:12)
                at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
                at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:623:3)
                npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
                npm ERR! errno 1
                npm ERR! magicmirror@2.11.0 config:check: node tests/configs/check_config.js
                npm ERR! Exit status 1
                npm ERR!
                npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.11.0 config:check script.
                npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

                npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
                npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-07-02T20_48_03_566Z-debug.log"

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                  sdetweil @Cyric
                  last edited by

                  @Cyric u ran the update? how?

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

                  learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                    sdetweil @sdetweil
                    last edited by

                    @sdetweil can u open the developers window, ctrl-shift-i, select the tab labeled console, and scroll up to see any errors

                    Sam

                    How to add modules

                    learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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                      Cyric @sdetweil
                      last edited by

                      @sdetweil I did git pull in the ~/MagicMirror parent directory. That gave me a few errors about changes, so i just did git pull --hard. Then I did npm install. For the other modules, i just did git pull and npm install.

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                        Cyric
                        last edited by

                        @sdetweil Im sorry, where do i do this at?

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