MMM-Config with Message "builder encountered a problem, see MagicMirror messages for info"

[dphotograph]

Hello everyone,
I’m currently working on a relatively newly installed instance of MagicMirror and discovered the MMM config.
At first, it worked very well.
Unfortunately, I now only get this message “builder encountered a problem, see MagicMirror messages for info” when accessing the configure page.

I found a post here that describes a similar problem, but nothing there fixed my “problem”
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/19305/rookie-question-builder-encountered-a-problem-see-magicmirror-messages-for-info

there it looks like “@sdetweil” fixed the problem.

and i found nothing MMM-Config releated in the log Files.

on npm run config:check

magicmirror@2.30.0 config:check
node js/check_config.js

[2025-03-24 02:50:15.997] [INFO] Checking config file /home/Admin/MagicMirror/config/config.js …
[2025-03-24 02:50:16.196] [INFO] Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)
[2025-03-24 02:50:16.197] [INFO] Checking modules structure configuration …
[2025-03-24 02:50:16.334] [INFO] Your modules structure configuration doesn’t contain errors :)

contend of the file “defaults_17951887168800.js”

const config = require('../../config/config.js')
var defined_config = {
MMM_MicrosoftToDo_defaults:  {
    oauth2ClientSecret: "",
    oauth2RefreshToken: "",
    oauth2ClientId: "",
    orderBy: "dueDate",
    hideIfEmpty: false,
    showCheckbox: true,
    maxWidth: 450,
    itemLimit: 200,
    completeOnClick: false,
    showDueDate: false,
    dateFormat: "ddd MMM Do [ - ]",
    refreshSeconds: 60,
    fade: false,
    fadePoint: 0.5,
    useRelativeDate: false,
    plannedTasks:  {
      enable: false,
      includedLists: [".*"], 
      duration:  {
        weeks: 2 
		}
		},
    colorDueDate: false,
    highlightTagColor: null
		},
MMM_homeassistant_sensors_defaults:  {
		prettyName: true,
		stripName: true,
		title: 'Home Assistant',
		host: 'hassio.local',
		port: '8321',
		https: false, 
		token: '',
		apipassword: '',
		fade: 100,
		updateInterval: 300000,
		id: false,
		displaySymbol: true,
		displaydates: false,
		displaytimes: false,
		notificationOnly: false,
		notificationCondition: [],
		dateformat: 'YYYY-MM-DD', 
		timeformat: 'HH:mm:ss', 
		controlsensor: 'sensor control disabled', 
		controlsensorvalue: 'sensor control disabled', 
		noaddress: 'away', 
		debuglogging: false,
		rowClass: 'small', 
		values: []
		},
MMM_Config_defaults:  {
    showQR: false,
    force_update: true,
    restart: "none",
    ModuleSortOrder:"date",
    debug: false,
		},
MMM_SteamPlaytime_defaults:  {
		apiKey: null,
		steamId: null,
		updateTime: "00:00",
		daysCount: 5,
		gamesCount: 5,
		excludeGames: [],
		language: "---!config.languag"e
		},
MMM_MVVWiesty_defaults:  {
        maxEntries: 5,
        stopId: "de:09162:6",
        filter:  {
		},
        displayNotifications: true,
        displayBundled: false,
        scrollSpeed: 40,
        minTimeUntilDeparture: 0
		},
MMM_HomeAssistantDisplay_defaults:  {
		title: "Home Assistant",
		host: "hassio.local",
		port: "8123",
		useTLS: false,
		ignoreCert: true,
		token: "",
		debuglogging: false,
		useModuleTigger: false,
		moduleTriggerTemplate: "",
		moduleTriggerEntities: false,
		animationSpeed: 3000,
		sections: [],
		class: ""
		},
MMM_EmbedURL_defaults:  {
		basicElementType: "div", 
		embedElementType: "iframe", 
		updateInterval: 60, 
		animationSpeed: 500, 
		positions: "tie",
		attributes: [
			"frameborder=0"
		],
		imgDecodeCheckInterval: -1,
		updateDomOnResume: true
		},
MMM_GmailFeed_defaults:  {
    updateInterval: 5 * 60 * 1000,
    maxEmails: 5,
    maxSubjectLength: 40,
    maxFromLength: 15,
    playSound: true,
    autoHide: false,
    displayMode: "table",
    color: true,
    showEmailAdressInHeader: true
		},
newsfeed_defaults:  {
		feeds: [
			 {
				title: "New York Times",
				url: "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml",
				encoding: "UTF-8" 
		}
		],
		showAsList: false,
		showSourceTitle: true,
		showPublishDate: true,
		broadcastNewsFeeds: true,
		broadcastNewsUpdates: true,
		showDescription: false,
		showTitleAsUrl: false,
		wrapTitle: true,
		wrapDescription: true,
		truncDescription: true,
		lengthDescription: 400,
		hideLoading: false,
		reloadInterval: 5 * 60 * 1000, 
		updateInterval: 10 * 1000,
		animationSpeed: 2.5 * 1000,
		maxNewsItems: 0, 
		ignoreOldItems: false,
		ignoreOlderThan: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 
		removeStartTags: "",
		removeEndTags: "",
		startTags: [],
		endTags: [],
		prohibitedWords: [],
		scrollLength: 500,
		logFeedWarnings: false,
		dangerouslyDisableAutoEscaping: false
		},
helloworld_defaults:  {
		text: "Hello World!"
		},
updatenotification_defaults:  {
		updateInterval: 10 * 60 * 1000, 
		refreshInterval: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, 
		ignoreModules: [],
		sendUpdatesNotifications: false,
		updates: [],
		updateTimeout: 2 * 60 * 1000, 
		updateAutorestart: false 
		},
compliments_defaults:  {
		compliments:  {
			anytime: ["Hey there sexy!"],
			morning: ["Good morning, handsome!", "Enjoy your day!", "How was your sleep?"],
			afternoon: ["Hello, beauty!", "You look sexy!", "Looking good today!"],
			evening: ["Wow, you look hot!", "You look nice!", "Hi, sexy!"],
			"....-01-01": ["Happy new year!"]
		},
		updateInterval: 30000,
		remoteFile: null,
		remoteFileRefreshInterval: 0,
		fadeSpeed: 4000,
		morningStartTime: 3,
		morningEndTime: 12,
		afternoonStartTime: 12,
		afternoonEndTime: 17,
		random: true,
		specialDayUnique: false
		},
clock_defaults:  {
		displayType: "digital", 
		timeFormat: "---!config.timeFormat",
		timezone: null,
		displaySeconds: true,
		showPeriod: true,
		showPeriodUpper: false,
		clockBold: false,
		showDate: true,
		showTime: true,
		showWeek: false,
		dateFormat: "dddd, LL",
		sendNotifications: false,
		analogSize: "200px",
		analogFace: "simple", 
		analogPlacement: "bottom", 
		analogShowDate: "top", 
		secondsColor: "#888888",
		showSunTimes: false,
		showMoonTimes: false, 
		lat: 47.630539,
		lon: -122.344147
		},
alert_defaults:  {
		effect: "slide", 
		alert_effect: "jelly", 
		display_time: 3500, 
		position: "center",
		welcome_message: false 
		},
weather_defaults:  {
		weatherProvider: "openweathermap",
		roundTemp: false,
		type: "current", 
		lang: "---!config.language",
		units: "---!config.units",
		tempUnits: "---!config.units",
		windUnits: "---!config.units",
		timeFormat: "---!config.timeFormat",
		updateInterval: 10 * 60 * 1000, 
		animationSpeed: 1000,
		showFeelsLike: true,
		showHumidity: "none", 
		showIndoorHumidity: false,
		showIndoorTemperature: false,
		allowOverrideNotification: false,
		showPeriod: true,
		showPeriodUpper: false,
		showPrecipitationAmount: false,
		showPrecipitationProbability: false,
		showUVIndex: false,
		showSun: true,
		showWindDirection: true,
		showWindDirectionAsArrow: false,
		degreeLabel: false,
		decimalSymbol: ".",
		maxNumberOfDays: 5,
		maxEntries: 5,
		ignoreToday: false,
		fade: true,
		fadePoint: 0.25, 
		initialLoadDelay: 0, 
		appendLocationNameToHeader: true,
		calendarClass: "calendar",
		tableClass: "small",
		onlyTemp: false,
		colored: false,
		absoluteDates: false,
		hourlyForecastIncrements: 1
		},
calendar_defaults:  {
		maximumEntries: 10, 
		maximumNumberOfDays: 365,
		limitDays: 0, 
		pastDaysCount: 0,
		displaySymbol: true,
		defaultSymbol: "calendar-alt", 
		defaultSymbolClassName: "fas fa-fw fa-",
		showLocation: false,
		displayRepeatingCountTitle: false,
		defaultRepeatingCountTitle: "",
		maxTitleLength: 25,
		maxLocationTitleLength: 25,
		wrapEvents: false, 
		wrapLocationEvents: false,
		maxTitleLines: 3,
		maxEventTitleLines: 3,
		fetchInterval: 60 * 60 * 1000, 
		animationSpeed: 2000,
		fade: true,
		fadePoint: 0.25, 
		urgency: 7,
		timeFormat: "relative",
		dateFormat: "MMM Do",
		dateEndFormat: "LT",
		fullDayEventDateFormat: "MMM Do",
		showEnd: false,
		showEndsOnlyWithDuration: false,
		getRelative: 6,
		hidePrivate: false,
		hideOngoing: false,
		hideTime: false,
		hideDuplicates: true,
		showTimeToday: false,
		colored: false,
		forceUseCurrentTime: false,
		tableClass: "small",
		calendars: [
			 {
				symbol: "calendar-alt",
				url: "https://www.calendarlabs.com/templates/ical/US-Holidays.ics"
		}
		],
		customEvents: [
			{ keyword: ".*", transform: { search: "De verjaardag van ", replace: "" } },
			{ keyword: ".*", transform: { search: "'s birthday", replace: "" } }
		],
		locationTitleReplace:  {
			"street ": ""
		},
		broadcastEvents: true,
		excludedEvents: [],
		sliceMultiDayEvents: false,
		broadcastPastEvents: false,
		nextDaysRelative: false,
		selfSignedCert: false,
		coloredText: false,
		coloredBorder: false,
		coloredSymbol: false,
		coloredBackground: false,
		limitDaysNeverSkip: false,
		flipDateHeaderTitle: false,
		updateOnFetch: true
		},
}
module.exports={defined_config,config};

Thank You in advance

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph you can use that module again now

in the MMM-Config folder do
git pull
then restart MagicMirror

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph can you show the rest of the startup messages please

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph i am not near my system for a couple hours

but you could try one test

in the MMM-Config folder do

node -c xxx

xxx is that defaults filename

if all is good you should get no results, and back to the prompt
i don’t See anything quick look

[dphotograph]

@sdetweil Hello

Thank You for the fast response
it looks like there is a typo in the defaults file

node -c defaults_17951887168800.js
/home/Admin/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-Config/defaults_17951887168800.js:69
                language: "---!config.languag"e
                                              ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier 'e'
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1378:20)
    at checkSyntax (node:internal/main/check_syntax:78:3)

Node.js v20.18.1

in the line 69 is this

		language: "---!config.languag"e

But now that i now that can i change this my self?
if i change it myself, on the next restart “pm2 restart 0” it is back to the typo :-O

Thank you

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph also, do you know the rough change you made last? installed a module?

[dphotograph]

@sdetweil

i think the last ones are

MMM_homeassistant_sensors
MMM_HomeAssistantDisplay
MMM_SteamPlaytime

Unfortunately, I was too impatient and installed three modules at once.
Typical beginner’s mistake

[dphotograph]

@sdetweil

i just removed the Steam Playtime from MM now it is back to normal :-)

i think i can live without it ;-)

But really! Thank You for the help to indentify the Problem :-)

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph thanks the discovery of all the module config contents is pretty tricky

ill look at this shortly

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph did you install the modules thru the MMM-Config installer?

[sdetweil]

@dphotograph you should have seen this in the logs, MagicMirror
startup messages

--------------------MMM-Config
module MMM-SteamPlaytime has an error in the construction of its defaults section
the error line is 		language: "---!config.languag"e
please change it to the literal value of the referenced variable
and restart MagicMirror
--------------------MMM-Config

because you are using pm2, you will have to ask to display more lines of output than the default 15
for example

pm2 logs --lines=100 

100 can be any number, default is last 15…