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    Blank Screen in Electron - fresh install on Pi Zero 2 W

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      chndrcks
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      Hello,

      When electron launches, I only see a black screen. In terminal I see this:
      ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(521)] Network service crashed, restarting service.

      I just got a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and installed the latest 64bit desktop version via the official image tool.

      I installed MM2 via this script: bash -c “$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts/master/raspberry.sh)”

      The server portion works. I can connect to it from a different machine. I also set up a server on a different machine and tried running clientonly on the Pi Zero 2. I get the same error and the same blank screen.

      If anyone has any idea what I might have configured incorrectly, I’d appreciate it.

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        chndrcks @chndrcks
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        I tried connecting with chromium and got the same blank screen. Then I tried launching chromium with --disable-gpu and the page did eventually load. But it’s very slow (e.g. the seconds on the clock don’t update).

        When I did that, I still got the ‘network service crashed’ error, so maybe that’s a red herring?

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          sdetweil @chndrcks
          last edited by sdetweil

          @chndrcks how big is the swap file?

          free -m
          Will show you and it’s usage

          Sam

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            chndrcks @sdetweil
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            @sdetweil Thanks for responding.

            Swap size is 4096. I bumped it up from the default 512 to see if that helped.

            I’m trying with firefox, but just launching the browser and navigating to the website takes 5+ minutes.

            Maybe I should try the 32-bit version of bookworm?

            This is unrelated, but while I was troubleshooting, I went through your raspberry.sh script. Could yo u tell me what’s going on with line 55 “if [ 0 -eq 1 ]; then” ? Won’t that always evaluate to false? or is there a bash trick I’m missing?

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              sdetweil @chndrcks
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              @chndrcks said in Blank Screen in Electron - fresh install on Pi Zero 2 W:

              line 55 “if [ 0 -eq 1 ]; then

              yes I just disabled that section. for install the log has to be outside the MM folder
              (as it doesn’t exist yet, until the git clone, a long way down)

              Sam

              How to add modules

              learning how to use browser developers window for css changes

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