[ERROR] _ is not defined

sdetweil

@nowayto show me the ~/MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log

note: I had a typo in log filename

and then do

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install

nowayto

@sdetweil

Upgrade started - Sat May 10 00:06:51 CEST 2025
system is Linux magicmirror2 6.1.21-v7+ #1642 SMP Mon Apr 3 17:20:52 BST 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
doing test run = true, NO updates will be applied!
the os is PRETTY_NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)” NAME=“Raspbian GNU/Linux” VERSION_ID=“11” VERSION=“11 (bullseye)” VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=raspbian ID_LIK>
architecture from dpkg is armhf
^[[96mCheck current Node installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNode currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum Node version: ^[[1mv22.14.0^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled Node version: ^[[1mv22.15.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo Node.js upgrade necessary.^[[0m
^[[96mCheck current NPM installation …^[[0m
^[[0mNPM currently installed. Checking version number.
^[[0mMinimum npm version: ^[[1mV10.9.2^[[0m
^[[0mInstalled npm version: ^[[1mV11.3.0^[[0m
^[[92mNo npm upgrade necessary.^[[0m

saving custom.css
remote name = origin
upgrading from version 2.31.0 to 2.31.0
fetching latest revisions
git fetch rc=0
current branch = master
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/master’.

Untracked files:
(use “git add …” to include in what will be committed)
core
errorcal.txt
errorcal2.txt
errorcal3.txt
errorcal4.txt
errorcal5.txt
nohup.out
run-start.sh
splashscreen/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use “git add” to track)
no files different from github version

nowayto

@sdetweil npm install results

~/MagicMirror $ npm install
npm error code ENOTEMPTY
npm error syscall rename
npm error path /home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/es-abstract
npm error dest /home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/.es-abstract-fSsKyNTi
npm error errno -39
npm error ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rename ‘/home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/es-abstract’ -> ‘/home/MYMIRR/MagicMirror/node_modules/.es-abstract-fSsKyNTi’
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/MYMIRR/.npm/_logs/2025-05-10T06_40_55_661Z-debug-0.log

Tried with sudo

~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install
npm error code EBADENGINE
npm error engine Unsupported engine
npm error engine Not compatible with your version of node/npm: magicmirror@2.31.0
npm error notsup Not compatible with your version of node/npm: magicmirror@2.31.0
npm error notsup Required: {“node”:“>=22.14.0”}
npm error notsup Actual: {“npm”:“11.2.0”,“node”:“v20.18.1”}
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2025-05-10T06_41_52_949Z-debug-0.log

npm seems to see an old version of nodejs but:

~/MagicMirror $ node -v
v22.15.0

I don’t know what happened.
If it can help I had first problem after the MMM-SolarPicture
but I’ve just installed it and configured it through config.js… nothing more than usual…

but the actual behaviour is that pm2 status says it’s running, but on the monitor I see just the raspbian desktop

│ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
├────┼───────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0 │ mm │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 4311 │ 19s │ 64 │ online │ 0% │ 2.6mb │ ber… │ disabled │

sdetweil

@nowayto two things

doing test run = true, NO updates will be applied!
upgrading from version 2.31.0 to 2.31.0

doing test run changes nothing, its a safety check

and i wont let you upgrade over the same release accidentally

so you need to rerun the command and add

force

to the end

sdetweil

@nowayto NEVER use sudo with any npm command

the number in the pm2 status 4311 is the number of restarts

youve got a mess

now we HAVE to use sudo to undo it

cd ~/MagicMirror 
sudo rm -rf node_modules
cd fonts
sudo rm -rf node_modules
cd ..\vendor
sudo rm-rf node_modules
cd ..

lets see about node

which node
n 
q to quit
nvm

dont do anything else til we figure out the nodejs problem

nowayto

@sdetweil I’m sorry :(

I did it what you suggest and config:check gave me a module error again. Different than one before

npm run config:check

magicmirror@2.31.0 config:check
node js/check_config.js

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1404
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module ‘ajv’
Require stack:

After “require stack” there are other lines, if you need it, tell me.
Thanks

sdetweil

@nowayto

i said stop

we need to fix nodejs so npm install will work

node -v

says something
and npm install says node is different

i am trying to figure out where node is installed and by who
system, nvm or n

you didn’t give me answers to the commands i provided

nowayto

@sdetweil

which node gave me
/home/MYMIRR/.nvm/versions/node/v22.15.0/bin/node

n gave me
node/20.18.1

Use up/down arrow keys to select a version, return key to install, d to delete, q to quit

nvm gave me

Node Version Manager (v0.39.5)

Note: refers to any version-like string nvm understands. This includes :

full or partial version numbers, starting with an optional “v” (0.10, v0.1.2 , v1)
default (built-in) aliases: node, stable, unstable, iojs, system
custom aliases you define with nvm alias foo

followed by a lot of options

sdetweil

@nowayto ok nvm and n do the same function but differently

i use n in my scripts because it runs everywhere

so lets turn off nvm

nvm deactivate
nvm unload
cd ~
rm -rf  .nvm

now which node
should find /usr/local/bin/node

now we need n to get to node 22.14.0

sudo n 22.14.0

now node -v

should return 22.14.0

if so, do

cd  ~/MagicMirror 
npm install

now MagicMirror should run

nowayto

@sdetweil Thank you a lot Sam.

I did everything but
I have an [ERROR] _ is not defined

magicmirror@2.31.0 start:x11
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2025-05-11 15:39:26.429] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.31.0
[2025-05-11 15:39:26.527] [LOG] Loading config …
[2025-05-11 15:39:26.537] [LOG] config template file not exists, no envsubst
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.154] [INFO] Checking config file /home/MYMIRR/MagicM irror/config/config.js …
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.478] [INFO] Your configuration file doesn’t contain syntax errors :)
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.482] [INFO] Checking modules structure configuration …
[2025-05-11 15:39:28.793] [ERROR] _ is not defined