UNSOLVED npm start doesn't do anything but logs random words.

[Ichiritzu]

Now, I am not exactly sure if I downloaded Jessie on my sd card. But that might be the problem?

I followed everything on this website to step 6: https://www.magicmirrorcentral.com/complete-raspberry-pi-magic-mirror-tutorial/

And when I do npm start, I get just a bunch of words in a log.

[09.01.2022 18:47.24.988] [LOG]   undefined
[09.01.2022 18:47.25.008] [LOG]   undefined
[09.01.2022 18:47.25.013] [LOG]   undefined
[09.01.2022 18:47.25.017] [LOG]                                      !             H|H|H|H|H           H__________________________________             H|§|§|§|H           H|* * * * * *|---------------------|             H|§|∞|§|H           H| * * * * * |---------------------|             H|§|§|§|H           H|* * * * * *|---------------------|             H|H|H|H|H           H| * * * * * |---------------------|             H|H|H|H|H           H|---------------------------------|          ===============        H|---------------------------------|            /| _   _ |          H|---------------------------------|            (| O   O |)          H|---------------------------------|            /|   U   |          H-----------------------------------             |  =/  |           H              _..._/            H              _|I/|_            H      _______/| H |/_______    H     /           / /          H    |          | | /         |  H    |          ||o||          |  H    |    |     ||o||     |    |  H    |    |     ||o||     |    |  H   Carl Pilcher  

I have no clue what’s going on.

Edit: I also can’t post the full log because it’ll get flagged as spam.

[sdetweil]

@ichiritzu don’t do Jessie or stretch
…use the latest, bullseye

and then use my install script
see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

[Ichiritzu]

@sdetweil said in npm start doesn't do anything but logs random words.:

bullseye

do I update the software or just reflash my sd?

[sdetweil]

@ichiritzu reflash, then use my script. don’t do anything else before that

[Ichiritzu]

@sdetweil Ok, I reflashed and got Bullseye. Then I immediately followed your script and the same results. After installing nothing happens, it just instructs me to cd to MagicMirror and use pm2 start MagicMirror.

When I do that, still nothing happens. It says status online, cpu 0%, and memory 2.8mb. Also when I do npm start, all it does is log random words like before.

[sdetweil]

@ichiritzu someone on discord is reporting similar issues…

he said renaming mm folder and doing manual install

git clone && npm install worked.

not sure what is going on

[karsten13]

see https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

[karsten13]

@sdetweil

it seems to be solved now, npm delivers now colors v1.4.0 as max version …

[Ichiritzu]

@karsten13 @sdetweil

Awesome! thank y’all. I finally fixed by renaming the folder, changing the dependency ‘colors’ to 1.4.0 (removed the carrot), delete node_modles, and npm install.