MMM-ModuleToggleButton suddenly broken?

[sdetweil]

@philie awesome!!!

[philie]

@sdetweil said in MMM-ModuleToggleButton suddenly broken?:

cd MMM-ModuleToggleButton

Hey there, it’s me again with the same problem…

I did the MM Update to 2.28.0 by Script. Like usually some things are broken after and I did npm install and npm rebuild in the MM rootdirectory. It installed some stuff and looked good so far.

But the module MMM-ModuleToggleButton stays broken like after every update.
It has again something to do with electron, I tried to reinstall electron, but have no success…

The output:

philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/modules $ git clone https://github.com/sdetweil/MMM-ModuleToggleButton
Cloning into 'MMM-ModuleToggleButton'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 44, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 44 (delta 0), reused 2 (delta 0), pack-reused 40
Receiving objects: 100% (44/44), 10.44 KiB | 1.30 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (17/17), done.
philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/modules $ cd MMM-ModuleToggleButton
philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ModuleToggleButton $ npm install

> MMM-ModuleToggleButton@1.0.0 postinstall
> ./postinstall

/home/philie/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ModuleToggleButton
./postinstall: line 8: ../../node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild: No such file or directory
npm error code 127
npm error path /home/philie/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ModuleToggleButton
npm error command failed
npm error command sh -c ./postinstall
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/philie/.npm/_logs/2024-07-14T11_29_32_616Z-debug-0.log
philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ModuleToggleButton $

so, electron-rebuild in node_modules seems to be missing…

Indeed:

philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ cd electron
philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron $ ll
total 1068
drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root     4096 Jul 14 13:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 679 philie philie  28672 Jul 14 13:10 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root     8126 Jul 14 12:46 checksums.json
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root   root      612 Jul 14 12:46 cli.js
drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root     4096 Jul 14 12:48 dist
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root   972754 Jul 14 12:46 electron.d.ts
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root      659 Jul 14 12:46 index.js
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root     3178 Jul 14 12:46 install.js
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root     1096 Jul 14 12:46 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  70 root   root     4096 Jul 14 13:20 node_modules
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root      586 Jul 14 12:46 package.json
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root    31409 Jul 14 13:20 package-lock.json
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root        8 Jul 14 12:48 path.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 root   root     5370 Jul 14 12:46 README.md

I did already the steps from last time (therefore I answer in this old topic) but no luck this time.
What can I do?

Thank you,
philie

[sdetweil]

@philie can you dump out the postinstall
file in the module folder…
it seems to be missing a step

[sdetweil]

@philie I see the postinstall script needed an update

do a
git pull
in the module folder
then
npm install again

[philie]

@sdetweil
Thank you Sam!
the edited script did not work for me but the commands worked. so I executed them manually:

philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install @electron/rebuild

added 88 packages, and removed 74 packages in 25s

220 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details
philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror $ node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild
✔ Rebuild Complete
philie@magicmirror:~/MagicMirror $

unfortunately the next issue is already on the dorstep:

message:14:59:24.366] [ERROR] (node:2306) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: The module '/home/philie/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-ModuleToggleButton/node_modules/epoll/build/Release/epoll.node',

So it looks like the thing about epoll is not yet solved…

[sdetweil]

@philie never use sudo…

the electron-rebuild command has to be done from inside the module folder(togglebuttons), not the MagicMirror folder

[philie]

@sdetweil
Thank you very much! This did the trick. concerning sudo… it’s sometimes confusing because often I get the message, I do not have enough rights for some commands…

[sdetweil]

@philie in general for MM there is NEVER a need for sudo… it will cause problems and LATER you will need to user sudo AGAIN…

the SYSTEM commands may need to use sudo…

apt update, upgrade, editing files in the /etc folder
because THOSE are owned by the system and should NOT be editable by a user
(they are protected on purpose)

the fact that the postinstall script failed is probably because you did sudo before and now the npm files are owned by root instead of user… (see line 1 above)