Update, unable to connect.

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 unable to connect is because MM is not running

next time for upgrade use my script… it checks and upgrades node/npm/pm2 if needed as well as other stuff…

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

short fix,
a. run my upgrade script with force instead of apply
or
b. upgrade node js to 16.x (will probably be 16.20)
then do npm install again

[Richard238]

@sdetweil

Option ‘a’ fixed it, thank you.

With it working, do I need to update node?

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 no, the script did that for you already

on a command line do

node -v

[Richard238]

@sdetweil

pi@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v16.1.0

[Richard238]

Same issue today. Tried with force but still no MM.

node -v = v22.14.0

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 can you show the startup messages

[Richard238]

@sdetweil

pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v22.14.0
pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 stop MagicMirror
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
[PM2] [MagicMirror](0) â
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â id â name               â mode     â ⺠   â status    â cpu      â memory   â
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â 0  â MagicMirror        â fork     â 2120 â stopped   â 0%       â 0b       â
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pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 start MagicMirror
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 0 ])
[PM2] [MagicMirror](0) â
[PM2] Process successfully started
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â id â name               â mode     â ⺠   â status    â cpu      â memory   â
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â 0  â MagicMirror        â fork     â 2120 â online    â 0%       â 2.6mb    â
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pi@mmv2:~/MagicMirror $

[sdetweil]

@Richard238 pm2 logs --lines=20

[Richard238]

@sdetweil said in Update, unable to connect.:

pm2 logs --lines=20

Seems to loop through this:

0|MagicMirror  | > magicmirror@2.32.0 start
0|MagicMirror  | > node --run start:x11
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.316] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.32.0 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.359] [LOG]   Loading config ... 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.363] [LOG]   config template file not exists, no envsubst 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:31.976] [INFO]  Checking config file /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js ... 
0|MagicMirror  | [2025-08-16 19:11:32.117] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
0|MagicMirror  | Line 99 column 21: 'Log' is not defined. 
PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] online
0|MagicMirror  | bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)

[mumblebaj]

@Richard238 said in Update, unable to connect.:

0|MagicMirror | [2025-08-16 19:11:32.117] [ERROR] Your configuration file contains syntax errors :(
0|MagicMirror | Line 99 column 21: ‘Log’ is not defined.

This seems to indicate that there is an error in config/config.js. Run the following on the command line in the ~/MagicMirror/ directory: npm run config:check