Failed to Connect to Wayland Display

[atwist]

Yes, that starts everything and gets me running like normal. Thanks!

So how do I get it to run on reboot moving forward?

[sdetweil]

@atwist weird… all the script does is the same thing…

can you show me the part of the output from npm start like from my desktop

####  System Information  ####
- SYSTEM:   manufacturer: System manufacturer; model: System Product Name; virtual: false; MM: 2.34.0
- OS:       platform: linux; distro: Ubuntu; release: 22.04.5 LTS; arch: x64; kernel: 5.15.0-164-generic
- VERSIONS: electron: undefined; used node: 22.21.1; installed node: 22.21.1; npm: 10.9.4; pm2: 6.0.14
- ENV:      XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11; MM_CONFIG_FILE: undefined
            WAYLAND_DISPLAY:  undefined; DISPLAY: :0.0; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined
- RAM:      total: 48077.13 MB; free: 36485.14 MB; used: 11591.98 MB
- OTHERS:   uptime: 21764 minutes; timeZone: America/Chicago

you may have to npm start >somefile.txt
then once up, ctrl-q,
and edit the somefile.txt

[atwist]

Here is that information.

System Information

• SYSTEM: manufacturer: Raspberry Pi Foundation; model: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5; virtual: false; MM: 2.34.0
• OS: platform: linux; distro: Debian GNU/Linux; release: 12; arch: arm64; kernel: 6.12.47+rpt-rpi-v8
• VERSIONS: electron: 39.2.7; used node: 22.21.1; installed node: 22.21.1; npm: 10.9.4; pm2: 6.0.14
• ENV: XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11; MM_CONFIG_FILE: undefined
  WAYLAND_DISPLAY: undefined; DISPLAY: :0; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined
• RAM: total: 3796.86 MB; free: 2669.80 MB; used: 1127.06 MB
• OTHERS: uptime: 3427 minutes; timeZone: America/Chicago

[atwist]

Do you happen to have any ideas to fix it moving forward? Thanks!

[sdetweil]

@atwist how are you starting MagicMirror?

pm2? How did you install MagicMirror

If my script, then look at
~/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh

[chrisfr1976]

@atwist
You could try this as start script:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/MagicMirror

export DISPLAY=:0
export ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=x11

npm start

The --ozone-platform-hint=x11 flag overrides the automatic detection and forces Electron into X11 mode. Maybe……

[atwist]

I don’t remember how i installed it but I don’t have MagicMirro.sh so i must not have used your script.

[atwist]

@chrisfr1976 Thanks for the reply. Sorry but how would i do that?

[sdetweil]

@atwist script name error, I made a shortcut for mm and didn’t catch it expanding there

[atwist]

@sdetweil ahh okay. I do have that file. What am I looking for in it though.?

[sdetweil]

@atwist can you run this from the command line , and show the results

ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -i -e xway -e labwc

[atwist]

nothing is returned

[sdetweil]

@atwist ok, weird, that is the command set I use on mm.sh to determine if Wayland is running or not

Does your mm.sh have those commands listed?

[atwist]

@sdetweil

Yes it does:

if [ $(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -i -e xway -e labwc | wc 
   # if WAYLAND_DISPLAYis set, use it, else set to -0
   export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:=wayland-0}
   npm run start:wayland
else
   DISPLAY=:0 npm start
fi

[sdetweil]

@atwist
So it shouldn’t be trying to start using wayland
And npm start on 2.34.0 uses x11

[atwist]

weird. Any suggestionon what to do?

[sdetweil]

@atwist move the script to another name
Try this instead

#!/bin/bash
npm start

Save that as mm.sh then do

chmod +x mm.sh

Then try
pm2 start MagicMirror

[atwist]

@sdetweil thanks. It shows that the process started successfully but it doesn’t appear on the screen.

[sdetweil]

@atwist you are on the pi directly, right? Not via ssh or vnc

[sdetweil]

@atwist try adding these two lines in front of the

export DISPLAY=:0
export ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=x11

npm start line

And try the
./MagicMirror.sh again.

May need to reboot before retry