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      DarrenO 0
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      Hi

      I currently run MagicMirror on a Debian11 system on an Intel NUC and decided to upgrade the OS to Debian12 using apt full-upgrade.

      After rebooting the system, I am prompted to login at a Debian login screen and then presented with an option to select a “Desktop” to work from. MagicMirror is no longer automatically displayed.

      Deciding to rebuild from scratch, I flashed a USB with the Debian12 ISO and performed a clean install, selecting to enable the SSH Server option and uncheck all optional Desktops except for the base Desktop environment.
      Do I have to install a Desktop environment other than the default?

      I’ve reconfigured the system to autologin instead of prompting the user to login, but how can I set it to go direct to a Desktop instead?

      I then proceeded to install MagicMirror, but it does not display even though I opted to do so during the installation.

      Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
      Thanks

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        sdetweil @DarrenO 0
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        @DarrenO-0 interesting.

        I have not upgraded to Debian 12 but have installed 12 without problems.

        and then my install script worked as
        before. I have tried both Wayland and x11 without issue.

        if you don’t have desktop then MagicMirror cannot display, as it is using a browser which requires desktop graphical mode.

        hmm
        maybe I installed Ubuntu 24.04

        ill try Debian tomorrow

        Sam

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        learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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          sdetweil @sdetweil
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          @DarrenO-0 I lied… I am trying it now… I’ll be awake all night otherwise…lol

          Sam

          How to add modules

          learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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            sdetweil @sdetweil
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            @DarrenO-0

            pm2 is having trouble on debian 12. I opened an issue on pm2 and wayland a few weeks ago
            https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/5820
            its the same error

            0|MagicMirror  | Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
            0|MagicMirror  | [13888:0625/223821.984899:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(244)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
            0|MagicMirror  | [13888:0625/223821.984944:ERROR:env.cc(257)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
            PM2            | App [MagicMirror:0] exited with code [1] via signal [SIGINT]
            

            pm2 stop all
            cd ~/MagicMirror
            npm start

            works fine (running in my vmware as a vm)
            Screenshot at 2024-06-25 22-28-57.png

            Sam

            How to add modules

            learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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              DarrenO 0 @sdetweil
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              @sdetweil LOL. Thanks
              I’ll wait to hear back what you find out.

              I figured there’d have to be some sort of Desktop environment for it to work on a physical machine.
              Just didn’t/don’t know if I had to use of the various Desktop flavors available during the OS installation or if I could just use the base Debian environment.

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                DarrenO 0 @sdetweil
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                @sdetweil yeah, that was the error I was seeing in the pm2 logs as well

                Perhaps, I’ll have to go back to Debian 11 for the time being.

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                  sdetweil @DarrenO 0
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                  @DarrenO-0 there might be some way to switch back to x11. I know raspi bookworm provides that

                  Sam

                  How to add modules

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                    DarrenO 0 @sdetweil
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                    @sdetweil
                    Just trying Debian12 again and ran your script.
                    It failed during the node and npm installation stage…

                    installing correct version of node and npm, please wait
                    curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
                    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

                    node failed to install, exiting

                    Going back to Debian11 now to see if I can get things back up and running.

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                      sdetweil @DarrenO 0
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                      @DarrenO-0 that is a networking error.

                      Sam

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                        DarrenO 0 @sdetweil
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                        @sdetweil retried 3x and same result.
                        I was SSH’d into the device at the time and it had internet access at all times

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