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sdetweil

@davidgagne does npm start work?

If not, pm2 is doing npm start and it is failing

Pm2s JOB is to start the app AND keep it running.
So if it fails or is stopped outside pm2, then you will see the exited and pm restart it

davidgagne

@sdetweil Yes. I think something is wrong with pm2 itself, because (a) calling the standard pm2 start MagicMirror will appear to work, but it does not actually launch the MagicMirror. This is the output it yields:

~/MagicMirror/modules $ pm2 start MagicMirror
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [MagicMirror](ids: [ 1 ])
[PM2] [MagicMirror](1) ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started
┌────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name           │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1  │ MagicMirror    │ default     │ 2.28.0  │ fork    │ 2816     │ 1s     │ 57   │ online    │ 0%       │ 29.0mb   │ dvg      │ disabled │
│ 0  │ pm2            │ default     │ 2.28.0  │ fork    │ N/A      │ 0      │ 0    │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │ dvg      │ enabled  │
└────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘

And (b) it shows pm2 as stopped which doesn’t make any sense. I thought pm2 was supposed to always be running.

Calling /installers/mm.sh will launch the MagicMirror, but then I am stuck with it reporting everything back to the ssh Terminal window and I can’t so anything else until/unless I ctrl-z it, which is annoying.

sdetweil

@davidgagne well you have two apps defined
MagicMirror and pm2

So do
pm2 delete 0
pm2 delete 1
pm2 save -f

Then run my fixuppm2 script, from

https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

davidgagne

@sdetweil Awesome! That seemed to do the trick. Thanks!

sdetweil

@davidgagne said in Fork Mode:

but then I am stuck with it reporting everything back to the ssh

and a learning thing

on Windows you can use

cd %HOME%\MagicMirror
rem had to make a mm.cmd or mm.bat
detach installers\mm.cmd

to spin a job off in the background

on linux, you end the command with &
to do the same thing

# only for  example, could have used the complete path 
cd ~/MagicMirror
installers/mm.sh &
# or
npm start &

davidgagne

@sdetweil Oh, nice. That’s a good tip. Thanks!

davidgagne

@sdetweil said in Fork Mode:

installers/mm.sh &

That doesn’t seem to work:

~/MagicMirror $ installers/mm.sh &
[1] 11788

> magicmirror@2.28.0 start
> ./run-start.sh $1

[2024-08-04 16:01:09.618] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.28.0
[2024-08-04 16:01:10.764] [LOG] Loading config ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:10.845] [LOG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[2024-08-04 16:01:17.539] [LOG] Loading module helpers ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:17.705] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[2024-08-04 16:01:19.196] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:19.283] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[2024-08-04 16:01:19.535] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[2024-08-04 16:01:20.029] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:20.278] [LOG] Module helper loaded: mmm-systemtemperature
[2024-08-04 16:01:20.396] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[2024-08-04 16:01:20.554] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[2024-08-04 16:01:27.632] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:27.767] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-ThemeParkWaitTimes
[2024-08-04 16:01:30.552] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:30.603] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-birthdays
[2024-08-04 16:01:30.714] [LOG] No helper found for module: MMM-CloneWarsQuotes.
[2024-08-04 16:01:30.761] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:30.854] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-ThemeParkWaitTimes
[2024-08-04 16:01:31.469] [LOG] Initializing new module helper ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:31.526] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-ImagesPhotos
[2024-08-04 16:01:31.561] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[2024-08-04 16:01:32.866] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 ...
[2024-08-04 16:01:33.567] [WARN]  You're using a full whitelist configuration to allow for all IPs 
[2024-08-04 16:01:35.645] [LOG] Server started ...

It is still returning all the reporting to Terminal.

sdetweil

@davidgagne yes, as the starting shell is still open, output is spooled there,
BUT you can exit the window AND it will stay running… the output will be lost…
(thats the value of pm2 spawning… it captures the output)

if you get it running in the background, without pm2, then two ways to kill it

reboot
or run a kill script like this

ps -ef | grep MagicMirror  | awk '{print $2}'| xargs sudo kill -9

for info , the steps
list the processes and their program path
find the ones with MagicMirror
print out just the process number
sudo kill -9 the process number

davidgagne

@sdetweil Oh. So just close that Terminal window and ssh into it again, you mean?

sdetweil

@davidgagne yes