MM2 not loading text

Beth

hi i made my MM2 a year or so ago and it has worked fine but recently on boot it will show the mm2 screen and then not load the text it just shows a black screen i have tried to log into vnc but the RPI refuses the connection i tried swapping RPI’s and that didn’t work i also can’t open a command window or shut it down what should i do?

cowboysdude

@beth run it in ‘dev mode’ and see what the output is.

sdetweil

@cowboysdude they can’t get into the machine… vnc doesn’t connect

swvalenti

Did the IP change by chance? Check to see if IP is static and ssh into pi that way.

Beth

@swvalenti how do i check?

sdetweil

@beth check your router to see if the system has a reserved address

u can find its address with
ifconfig command in a terminal window

ethxx is ethernet wired
wlanxx is wireless lan

swvalenti

@Beth what Sam said

Beth

UPDATE: there is a command window that papers on the boot up screen it does not leave i connected keyboard/mouse to it and can enter commands like a terminal window although pm2start will not work and npm start gives the following err (note i copied this by hand so there may be slight imperfections)

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! sysca11 open
npm ERR! path /home/pi/package . json
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent no such file or directory, open ‘/home/pi/package . jason’
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

sdetweil

@beth said in MM2 not loading text:

/home/pi/

u are not in the MagicMirror folder for npm start

and its pm2 start (notice the space)

pm2 status will show u the pm2 currently managed apps

Beth

@sdetweil i did that and it gave me the following err:
[PM2] spawning PM2 daemon with pm2 _home=/home/pi.pm2
[PM2] PM2 successfully daemonized
[PM2] [ERROR] Script not found: /home/pi/MagicMirror/mm.sh