Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
VM Disk Full - 50 GiB in 4 months
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@sdetweil – Yes, I did.
The output I pasted included 2 runs. The first returned an access error as expected. The 2nd run says ‘not a minidump file’.
I guess I confused things by pasting all that. Sorry.
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@JohnGalt no problem… thx… I have not tried to examine them myself either
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@JohnGalt there is a new script in my package , cleanup.sh
intended to erase all the electron binary downloads and
any npm cache -
@sdetweil – Thanks, Sam.
When I get back from my travels next week I hope to have time to look at this.
IIRC, my primary stumbling block is how full the disk is, meaning I don’t recall if the machine even still boots. I hope it still has room to boot and load the script! That would be great.
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@JohnGalt if you have a usb carrier for the sd card, you could make and boot another one and mount the old one to erase the files
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@sdetweil – Just as a reminder, this is an instance of Magic Mirror installed on Linux in a Virtual Machine, running under TrueNAS Scale.
I just confirmed that the VM will start and run and I can SSH into it from my desktop. As such, I should be able to upload the script.
Query: Do we expect the script to run as intended under a VM?
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@JohnGalt it should under a VM… under a docker container no
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@sdetweil OK, I was able to run the script on 2 different VMs where MagicMirror is failing to run. In both cases, it still doesn’t run. Th script reported substantially more space available after running, but MagicMirror still doesn’t run. While I am approaching the point where it will be more efficient of my time and yours to just create a 3rd VM, I will post the output of pm2 status below, in case it happens to shed any light on the subject:
al@MM-Dev-VM:~/MagicMirror$ pm2 status SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at Configuration.getAllSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:299:17) at Configuration.getSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:270:30) at new API (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/API.js:116:44) at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/binaries/CLI.js:27:11) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1706:14) at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1839:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1441:32) at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1263:12) at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:328:14) SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at Configuration.getAllSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:299:17) at Configuration.getSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:270:30) at module.exports [as list] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/API/UX/pm2-ls.js:470:32) at doList (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/API.js:1758:12) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/API.js:1728:7 at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/pm2-axon-rpc/lib/client.js:45:10 at Parser.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/pm2-axon/lib/sockets/req.js:67:8) at Parser.emit (node:events:519:28) at Parser._write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/node_modules/amp/lib/stream.js:91:16) ┌────┬───────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │ └────┴───────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘ al@MM-Dev-VM:~/MagicMirror$ -
@JohnGalt interesting.
Can you show me the .json files in the
MagicMirror/installers folder? -
@sdetweil – Sure. Below are the following:
[1] A listing of all the files in the directory
[2] Complete listing of pm2_MagicMirror.json [user = pi]
[3] Complete listing of pm2_MagicMirror_new.json [same content, but user = al]
[4] Truncated content of cleanup.log.===================================================
[1] File listing:al@MM-Dev-VM:~$ cd MagicMirror/installers al@MM-Dev-VM:~/MagicMirror/installers$ ls -l total 28 -rw-rw-r-- 1 al al 15779 Sep 22 17:25 cleanup.log -rwxrwxr-x 1 al al 318 Apr 12 11:24 mm.sh -rw-rw-r-- 1 al al 213 Apr 12 11:23 pm2_MagicMirror.json -rw-rw-r-- 1 al al 213 Apr 12 11:24 pm2_MagicMirror_new.json[2] pm2_MagicMirror.json [user = pi]:
{ "apps" : [{ "name" : "MagicMirror", "cwd" : "/home/pi", "script" : "/home/pi/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh", "watch" : ["/home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js"] }] }[3] pm2_MagicMirror_new.json [user = al]
{ "apps" : [{ "name" : "MagicMirror", "cwd" : "/home/al", "script" : "/home/al/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh", "watch" : ["/home/al/MagicMirror/config/config.js"] }] }[4] cleanup.log [truncated the middle…]
cleanup starting - Tue Sep 22 17:25:27 PDT 2026 + sudo apt-get clean + sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=50M Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /run/log/journal. Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/user-1000@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-00000000038cd93a-000659bca4c8e9db.journal (3.5M). Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/system@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-00000000038cfb74-000659bca4d69467.journal (8.0M). Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/user-1000@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-00000000038cfb75-000659bca4dc0164.journal (3.5M). [******* snipped ~ 80 lines of the same *****] Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/system@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-0000000003956462-000659bd5ca164f9.journal (8.0M). Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/user-1000@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-0000000003956476-000659bd5ca692a8.journal (3.5M). Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/system@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-0000000003959555-000659bd620a0772.journal (8.0M). Deleted archived journal /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03/user-1000@fcb30571b97048eba4ab97fe572286ba-0000000003959988-000659bd6210320a.journal (3.5M). Vacuuming done, freed 507.5M of archived journals from /var/log/journal/f71bef7b7c2e4cb892282a7354e5fb03. Vacuuming done, freed 0B of archived journals from /var/log/journal. + npm cache clean --force npm notice npm notice New major version of npm available! 10.9.4 -> 12.1.0 npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v12.1.0 npm notice To update run: npm install -g npm@12.1.0 npm notice + pm2 flush SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at Configuration.getAllSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:299:17) at Configuration.getSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:270:30) at new API (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/API.js:116:44) at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/binaries/CLI.js:27:11) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1706:14) at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1839:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1441:32) at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1263:12) at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:328:14) [PM2] Flushing /home/al/.pm2/pm2.log [PM2] Logs flushed cleanup finished - Tue Sep 22 17:25:54 PDT 2026 free space before: 36G after: 37G -
@JohnGalt ok, do
pm2 info >somefile.txt 2>&1
it should dump out all the info about your pm2 apps…
you could also do
pm2 delete MagicMirror pm2 flushand run the pm2 setup script listed here
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts#add-using-pm2-to-autostart-magicmirror-at-bootup -
@sdetweil – Thanks Sam.
Output of pm2 info >somefile.txt 2>&1 renders the following. I ran it in the home directory, as well as in the MagicMirror directory with the same results. given the error, I stopped there and di not do the other steps…
SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse (<anonymous>) at Configuration.getAllSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:299:17) at Configuration.getSync (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Configuration.js:270:30) at new API (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/API.js:116:44) at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/binaries/CLI.js:27:11) at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1706:14) at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1839:10) at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1441:32) at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1263:12) at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:328:14) error: missing required argument `name|id'
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