Autostarts but doesn't run, will run on restart

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 said in Autostarts but doesn't run, will run on restart:

0|mm | + xprop -root
0|mm | xprop: unable to open display ‘:0’

thanks… x not up yet…

weird, never seen this on any other system pi otherwise…
I have 3 pi3, 2 pi4, pi 0w and pi02w and jetson nano, odroid, chromebox, plus desktops…

i’ll add another environment variable check
u add it to the mm.sh used to launch…

let me test it…

thanks for your help

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

Happy to have broken it. Again. lol

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 ok, do this

cd ~/MagicMirror
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/test/run-start.sh >run-start.sh

edit the MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

add a line before the npm start

export wait_for_x=1 

(or true, or ANYTHING)
the value can be anything

edit the run-start.sh and add the -x on the 1st line again

do the pm2 flush
pm2 restart

just to test
then do the reboot test

[ember1205]

@sdetweil said in Autostarts but doesn't run, will run on restart:

export wait_for_x=1

That isn’t the mm.sh that my system launches from, though… Mine is ~/mm.sh

Does the one you’re referencing get called from one of the other scripts?

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 whatever script…

if you used my setup script it uses the one already in installers

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

Ok… Modified the ~/mm.sh script

pm2 restart mm failed to start Chromium correctly - landed on the Chrome Desktop.
Purged the config directory and started mm without issue.

Restarted the mirror and everything came up clean multiple times, but there is clearly still something weird happening with Chromium in that I have to continue wiping the config directory before it will start up correctly.

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 the new script wipes the config folder already

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

Whatever it’s doing, it isn’t doing it correctly. “pm2 restart mm” lands me on the Chrome Desktop every time. I have to wipe the config folder by hand.

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

Its trying to wipe a non-existent directory

0|mm  | + rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium-browser

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 ah. I ‘assumed’ folder name matched executable…doah…

[ember1205]

@sdetweil said in Autostarts but doesn't run, will run on restart:

cd ~
rm -rf .config/chromium
rm -rf .config/electron

This was what you had mentioned earlier in the thread and worked, and it’s what I built my config wipe based on.

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 do the curl again

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

Seems to be working reliably. Even why I simply do a “shutdown now” without any of my shutdown process items, it starts up correctly.

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 cool… thanks for the feedback…
i merged the changes into the master branch for all updates from now on

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

Now I have to find something else to break… sigh… :)

[sdetweil]

@ember1205 thanks!.. this exposed another problem , using the script on an ubuntu system it opened the MM page in the running chrome instance and THEN DIDN’T WAIT… so the script ‘failed’ and pm2 restarted it , over and over and over…

So, i just fixed THAT too… (didn’t break the prior! lol)

[ember1205]

@sdetweil

As long as you got it all fixed, then it was a good day!