Failed Update

[DarkV]

@sdetweil I am glad you know what all this means as I have no clue, many thanks for taking the time to help me, the wifey will kill me if this f***s up:beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes: .

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Linux MAGIC-MIRROR 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Tue Oct 31 12:51:37 2023
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ hash -r
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ sudo apt-get remove nodejs npm -y
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Package ‘npm’ is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libfuse2 raspinfo
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nodejs
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 183 MB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database … 108415 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nodejs (20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1) …
dpkg: warning: while removing nodejs, directory ‘/usr/lib/node_modules’ not empty so not removed
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) …
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ hash -r
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ node -v
-bash: /usr/local/bin/node: No such file or directory
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ node -v
-bash: /usr/local/bin/node: No such file or directory
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ ^C
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ sudo n ls
node/20.8.0
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ sudo n prune
/usr/bin/n: line 474: /usr/local/bin/node: No such file or directory
node/20.8.0
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ sudo n uninstall
Do you wish to delete node and npm from /usr/local? y

Uninstalling node and npm
/usr/local/bin/node
/usr/local/bin/npm
/usr/local/bin/npx
/usr/local/bin/corepack
/usr/local/include/node
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/corepack
/usr/local/share/doc/node
/usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ hash -r
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $
which node
junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ which node
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junior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $

[sdetweil]

@DarkV ok,

two more commands for info before running

lsb_release -a
file /bin/bash

NOW try to run my upgrade script… note that it will NOT install node in test mode…

so you have to use the second link that adds the apply parm

[DarkV]

@sdetweil said in Failed Update:

file /bin/bash

unior@MAGIC-MIRROR:~ $ bash -c “$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/upgrade-script.sh)” apply
curl: (18) transfer closed with 23780100 bytes remaining to read
xz: (stdin): Unexpected end of input
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Error: failed to download archive for 20.8.0

doing test run = false
update log will be in /home/junior/MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log
Check current Node installation …
Node currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum Node version: v20.8.0
Installed Node version: v20.5.1
Node should be upgraded.
Installing Node.js …
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
nodejs is already the newest version (20.5.1-deb-1nodesource1).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libfuse2 raspinfo
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
node version is
Node.js installation Done! version=v20.5.1
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade to version 7 or higher. Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic. See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.

[sdetweil]

@DarkV man this is a pain

one more try

sudo apt-get remove nodejs npm -y
hash -r
which node
which n

if which n response with empty then do

sudo apt-get install n 

once n responds then

sudo n 20.8.0	--arch armv7l
hash -r 
node -v 

should say V20.8.0

i notice that I didn’t copy this little part from the install script…

please let me know

[sdetweil]

@DarkV never mind that won’t work… need node and npm to install n… grr…

ok, only way out is to redo the sd card
backup your MM
see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore

copy the backup folder MM_backup off the sd card (it can save to github too)

reflash the sd card with latest os
boot, no updates,
run install script to install MM
verify it runs
restore your config using my restore script (can restore directly from github too)

test

sorry, the nodejs guys made a mess of this as they changed the node install process too… and it doesn’t work.

[DarkV]

@sdetweil All is OK. I am so grateful for all of your assistance. In my opinion, what you performed was alchemy or witchcraft. I’ve been attempting to identify the problem and have made multiple unsuccessful attempts. An old picture I had from a few months ago was my saviour. My wife was becoming tired of my futile attempts at updating.
You have brought me happiness and protected me from madness. That’s a significant victory.

[sdetweil]

@DarkV before you jump off the bridge! try this

sudo apt-get remove nodejs npm -y
hash -r

make sure gone
which node

then 

sudo apt-get install nodejs:armv7l
node -v

[DarkV]

@sdetweil I don’t know what happened, but the reply is above. Many thanks

[sdetweil]

@DarkV cool… i didn’t expect that it, i’m glad!!

[DarkV]

@sdetweil I did this
sudo apt-get remove nodejs npm -y
hash -r
which node
which n

if which n response with empty then do

sudo apt-get install n

once n responds then

sudo n 20.8.0 --arch armv7l
hash -r
node -v

Then both scripts and it went through!