We changed npm start to use the Wayland compositor, instead of x11 because the pi os has that as default now

If you used my install script and selected pm2, then my startup script (mm.sh) detects which compositor is running, and issues the appropriate start command

when I ran “npm start” it was loading the modules and returned this:

(I skipped copying the earliest info about all of the modules)

[2026-05-12 07:52:44.151] [LOG] [node_helper] Connecting socket for: MMM-OpenWeatherForecast
[2026-05-12 07:52:44.152] [LOG] [MMM-OpenWeatherForecast] ====================== Starting node_helper for module [MMM-OpenWeatherForecast]
[2026-05-12 07:52:44.153] [LOG] [node_helper] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[2026-05-12 07:52:44.154] [LOG] [newsfeed] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[2026-05-12 07:52:44.155] [LOG] [app] Sockets connected & modules started …
[10718:0512/075244.158823:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_connection.cc:202] Failed to connect to Wayland display: No such file or directory (2)
[10718:0512/075244.159077:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/ozone_platform_wayland.cc:281] Failed to initialize Wayland platform
[10718:0512/075244.159133:ERROR:ui/aura/env.cc:246] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGSEGV

Where did you see the error ?

How did you install MagicMirror on the new system?

Then you could use my backup/restore scripts
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror-backup-restore.git

Which has a perfect use for this
Very small data. Can use GitHub too as the storage place

no space left on device

Without the log

The log has over 600 lines in it. Is there something specific to look for?

Try

cd ~/MagicMirror 
npm install electron@41.3.0

please advise results

I’ve always used “npm start”. Tried starting it with both commands.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ Start MagicMirror
-bash: Start: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ npm start

magicmirror@2.36.0 start
node --run start:wayland

/bin/sh: 1: ./node_modules/.bin/electron: not found
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $

Do
Stop MagicMirror

cd ~/MagicMirror 
git checkout package.json
rm package-lock.json
rm -rf  node_modules
npm run install-mm 

Start MagicMirror

Here’s what it returned:

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b2c0eca…878e7cc 100644
— a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
“vitest”: “^4.1.5”
},
“optionalDependencies”: {

•           "electron": "^41.3.0"
  

•           "electron": "^22.3.4"
    },
    "engines": {
            "node": ">=22.21.1 <23 || >=24"
  

git diff package.json

Looks like you used my installer script at some time

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/master’.

Changes not staged for commit:
(use “git add …” to update what will be committed)
(use “git restore …” to discard changes in working directory)
modified: package-lock.json
modified: package.json

Untracked files:
(use “git add …” to include in what will be committed)
RTSPtoWeb/
icons/
installers/
make_error
old_modules/
run-start.sh
splashscreen/

no changes added to commit (use “git add” and/or “git commit -a”)

Do,

cd ~/MagicMirror 
git status

Report output

I’m not using pm2.
I updated from the main MM site

When I run npm run start:x11, I’m getting the same error.

Npm start was changed to do Wayland, instead of x11
Documented in the release notes

Now need to do

npm run start:x11

Are you using pm2 to launch?

How did you upgrade MagicMirror? Manually or my scripted update?

It returned:
App threw an error during load
TypeError: styleText is not a function
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/logger.js:40:42
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/logger.js:114:2)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:14)
at Module._extensions…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1196:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1011:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:846:12)
at f._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13330)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1035:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:7:13)
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
TypeError: styleText is not a function
at /home/pi/MagicMirror/js/logger.js:40:42
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/logger.js:114:2)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:14)
at Module._extensions…js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1196:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1011:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:846:12)
at f._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13330)
at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1035:19)
at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
at Object. (/home/pi/MagicMirror/js/app.js:7:13)
[405959:0511/092036.982897:ERROR:wayland_connection.cc(224)] Failed to connect to Wayland display: No such file or directory (2)
[405959:0511/092036.983156:ERROR:ozone_platform_wayland.cc(223)] Failed to initialize Wayland platform
[405959:0511/092036.983172:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.
/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGABRT

ctrl-c to stop server and then do your normal start for MM

Now it’s running perfectly if I’m using the browser.
So, why can’t it run if I use “npm start”?

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-TitanSchoolMealMenu
git pull

if that succeeds, do

npm install

then

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm run server

if good, then use browser to go to

http://localhost:8080