No display after upgrading to 2.38

sdetweil

@wimThoelke thanks for the feedback…

how did you upgrade? manual or scripted?

wimThoelke

@sdetweil
manual upgrade of mm by git pull && node --run install-mm according to
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/upgrade-guide.html.
then update of electron by npm install --save-dev electron@44.5.0

sdetweil

@wimThoelke thanks. Very helpful

sdetweil

I’ve updated my scripts to install an updated electron to fix this problem…
during install or upgrade

papinist

I can confirm this issue on my setup as well.

I upgraded MagicMirror from 2.37.0 to 2.38.0 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspberry Pi OS Debian 13 (Trixie), 64-bit, with Wayland/labwc.

After the upgrade, MagicMirror was running under PM2 and the server on port 8080 was working correctly, but the Electron window remained black / did not display the mirror.
I initially had Electron 44.4.5, and upgrading manually to 44.5.0 did NOT fix the problem on my system.

I then tested Electron 43.7.7, and MagicMirror worked correctly.
Finally, after seeing that the MagicMirror upgrade script had been updated to install Electron 44.5.1, I installed 44.5.1 manually:

npm install --no-save electron@44.5.1

With Electron 44.5.1, MagicMirror immediately started working correctly again under Wayland, with all my modules running normally.
So, at least on my Raspberry Pi 3B, 44.5.0 was not sufficient; Electron 44.5.1 was the version that actually fixed the problem.

Thanks for updating the upgrade script to install 44.5.1 — that was essential in my case.
Hopefully this helps anyone else who finds that upgrading only to 44.5.0 doesn’t solve the issue.

papinist

I can confirm this issue on my setup as well.

I upgraded MagicMirror from 2.37.0 to 2.38.0 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running Raspberry Pi OS Debian 13 (Trixie), 64-bit, with Wayland/labwc.

After the upgrade, MagicMirror was running under PM2 and the server on port 8080 was working correctly, but the Electron window remained black / did not display the mirror.
I initially had Electron 44.4.5, and upgrading manually to 44.5.0 did NOT fix the problem on my system.

I then tested Electron 43.7.7, and MagicMirror worked correctly.
Finally, after seeing that the MagicMirror upgrade script had been updated to install Electron 44.5.1, I installed 44.5.1 manually:

npm install --no-save electron@44.5.1

With Electron 44.5.1, MagicMirror immediately started working correctly again under Wayland, with all my modules running normally.
So, at least on my Raspberry Pi 3B, 44.5.0 was not sufficient; Electron 44.5.1 was the version that actually fixed the problem.

Thanks for updating the upgrade script to install 44.5.1 — that was essential in my case.
Hopefully this helps anyone else who finds that upgrading only to 44.5.0 doesn’t solve the issue.

sdetweil

@papinist anyone using the scripts will not even know!! except for the message displayed

knightyomega

Can confirm this on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (Debian 12, arm64, Wayland/labwc, pm2) after git pull && node --run install-mm to 2.38.0 (Electron 44.4.5). The server and all modules started fine, but the mirror never displayed. In a plain test BrowserWindow loading localhost:8080, the renderer crashed about 16 seconds after the page loaded. There was nothing in dmesg (no OOM or segfault), and it happened with and without --disable-gpu.

Pinning Electron 42.5.2 worked as a stopgap. I then tried 44.5.1 (npm install --no-save electron@44.5.1) as papinist suggested, and it works on my Pi 3 too, including after a reboot. So 44.5.1 looks like the fix for this crash. Thanks wimThoelke, papinist and Sam.

rts58

I also am not seeing any display after the upgrade. I used @sdetweil latest upgrade script. I tried the upgrade of electron to 44.5.1, but still no luck. I checked the log and saw:

1|mm       | /MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGINT
1|mm       | [2026:1007/105447.154822:ERROR:ui/base/x/x11_display_util.cc:341] XRandR returned no displays; falling back to root window
1|mm       | [2189:1007/105447.262969:ERROR:ui/gfx/x/connection.cc:66] X connection error received.
1|mm       | [2026-10-07 10:57:18.680] [WARN]  [ip_access_control] IP 192.168.1.1 is not allowed to access the mirror

sdetweil

@rts58 how are you starting MM?

pm2, manually, some other script?

lets do this
oops, one more question

file $(which bash)

should say 64, not 32

file $(which bash)
/usr/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit

if pm2,
pm2 stop all

cd ~/MagicMirror 
ps -ef | grep way | grep -v grep

if any response , then running wayland

then do

grep version node_modules/electron/package.json

should show

grep version node_modules/electron/package.json
  "version": "44.5.1",
    "abi_version",

if so, the do
is the response on grep way was something

npm start

else if grep way was empty

npm run start:x11

please advise

rts58

@sdetweil
here is the terminal, still blank screen.

[/home/rpi] $ cd ~/MagicMirror 
ps -ef | grep way | grep -v grep

[/home/rpi/MagicMirror] $ grep version node_modules/electron/package.json
  "version": "44.4.5",
    "abi_version",

[/home/rpi/MagicMirror] $ npm run start:x11

> magicmirror@2.38.0 start:x11
> DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

[2026-10-07 11:25:36.584] [LOG]   [app] Starting MagicMirror: v2.38.0
[2026-10-07 11:25:36.619] [LOG]   [utils] Loading config ...
[2026-10-07 11:25:36.645] [INFO]  [utils] Checking config file /home/rpi/MagicMirror/config/config.js 

 file $(which bash)
/usr/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, BuildID[sha1]=bea6a154d9a9158114ee0a2a439045596615df14, for GNU/Linux 3.7.0, stripped

I won’t be able to check till later, thanks for your help.

sdetweil

@rts58 said:

“version”: “44.4.5”,

that is the broken electron

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm install electron@44.5.1

then restart

I want to see the MagicMirror/installers/upgrade.log
email to the same userid as here at gmail
I had a bug in upgrade before Monday afternoon…

rts58

I’m not sure why I didn’t have the correct electron, after the upgrade didn’t worked i did the manual install, (but I may not have been in the MagicMirror directory). MM is now up and working. I’ll send the log, although it says

npm install completed - Wed Oct  7 09:53:32 EDT 2026 on base
installing electron @ 44.5.1 on 2.38.0

added 19 packages, and changed 1 package in 15s

Thanks as always!!!