Mirror Update Permissions Error

[sdetweil]

@xxLulaBelle do this

cd ~/MagicMirror
sudo chown -r pi node_modules

then update again
may have to do the same for the npm library catalog

sudo chown -r pi ~/.npm

[xxLulaBelle]

@sdetweil thank you will try this.

[xxLulaBelle]

I tried the above as suggested but get this error now:

chown: invalid option – ‘r’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

[sdetweil]

@xxLulaBelle look at the help, does it need capital R, not near my computer

[xxLulaBelle]

Apologies I don’t speak the language so I don’t understand it unfortunately but I did a capital R and got the following:

chown: invalid option – ‘r’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

[sdetweil]

@xxLulaBelle
like this notice the dash - in front of the r

sudo chown -R pi ~/.npm

[xxLulaBelle]

Hi,

Now getting this when I try to update.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ git pull && npm install
Updating 447c0bf…018cb91
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
package-lock.json
package.json
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting

[sdetweil]

@xxLulaBelle we don’t care about the package-lock.json file

but the package.json maybe

do

git diff package.json

to see what was changed.

my update script, from here, https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts, might have helped.

[xxLulaBelle]

@sdetweil said in Mirror Update Permissions Error:

git diff package.json

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git diff package.json
Not a git repository
To compare two paths outside a working tree:
usage: git diff [–no-index]

[xxLulaBelle]

Sorry realised I hadn’t opened Mirror…

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 317969e…10a0407 100644
— a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
“chai”: “^4.1.2”,
“chai-as-promised”: “^7.1.1”,
“current-week-number”: “^1.0.7”,

• “danger”: “^3.1.3”,

• “danger”: “^10.2.0”,
  “grunt”: “latest”,
  “grunt-eslint”: “latest”,
  “grunt-jsonlint”: “latest”,
  @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
  “grunt-yamllint”: “latest”,
  “http-auth”: “^3.2.3”,
  “jsdom”: “^11.6.2”,

• “mocha”: “^7.0.0”,

• “mocha”: “^8.0.1”,
  “mocha-each”: “^1.1.0”,
  “mocha-logger”: “^1.0.6”,
  “spectron”: “^8.0.0”,

[sdetweil]

@xxLulaBelle what version r u on?

grep version package.json

[xxLulaBelle]

I have no idea Sam. Honestly complete newb, don’t know what I’m donig half the time :man_facepalming_light_skin_tone:

[mumblebaj]

@xxLulaBelle usually when I have this issue i run the following the the MagicMirror folder:

git reset --hard
then
git pull && npm install
That works for me and I am able to update

[sdetweil]

@xxLulaBelle from the mm folder do

grep version package.json

[sdetweil]

@mumblebaj that works, but. he made a change. let’s not lose this if it’s important.

use my script anyhow. solves lots of other problems with modules too

[mumblebaj]

@sdetweil I agree, your scripts works wonders.

[xxLulaBelle]

Ok thanks all, will try :) Sorry for being clueless :man_facepalming_light_skin_tone: