(Solved) PM2 does not start on reboot

amanzimdwini

@amanzimdwini @xbmcnut
Clean installation onto a Pi3 works… (and I have NO idea why it works on this one: my last pi3 gave me the same problem you had). So you might want to look at a different Pi?
Best of luck!

xbmcnut

@amanzimdwini I have resolved it now as I posted a bug. Turns out it’s related to the timeout setting for the PM2 service. Developers are going to remove timeout in next release but for now it can be tweaked. And no, had no joy with screensaver either. Disabled it in GUI and it seems to be gone now.

https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/2765#issuecomment-286778941

amanzimdwini

@xbmcnut Just read your post - now MY installation wont run PM2. Argh. Where do you change the timeout settings?

ps - Re: screensaver: I had to resort to’

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver

and the disable it.

xbmcnut

@amanzimdwini said in (Solved) PM2 does not start on reboot:

Where do you change the timeout settings?

/etc/systemd/system/pm2-root.service

I changed mine from 8 to 15s using WinSCP with the SCP/Shell set to sudo su -

amanzimdwini

@xbmcnut took me a good 10 seconds to find pm2-pi.service for the raspberry
And another 5 to change it.

YOU ARE A GENIUS!
thanks

rmohsen

@xbmcnut Hello

total noob here and i have the same problem , how do i do that ?

ps : i’m not a developer or anything , i’m just a regular user so i kinda need step by step

thanks

xbmcnut

@rmohsen Do you know how to access your mirror with either PuTTy or WinSCP?

rmohsen

@xbmcnut yes. Tried winscp but couldn’t edit the file , no permission

I managed to change it from 8 to 15 with another command on terminal but still not working

xbmcnut

@rmohsen Apologies. My install has died over the weekend and MM will no longer run. Getting to Desktop login screen on reboot and that’s it even though I told it to auto login, the desktop will not start. Have popped in ‘too hard bin’ for the moment, sorry.

Sandy2503

@xbmcnut :abcd:

where have you changed the Idle Time ???

Thats my pm2-root.service:

[Unit]
Description=PM2 process manager
Documentation=https://pm2.keymetrics.io/
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=root
LimitNOFILE=infinity
LimitNPROC=infinity
LimitCORE=infinity
Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Environment=PM2_HOME=/root/.pm2
PIDFile=/root/.pm2/pm2.pid

ExecStart=/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 resurrect
ExecReload=/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 reload all
ExecStop=/usr/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 kill

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Greetz Sandy2503

xbmcnut

@Sandy2503 I believe in the latest version of PM2, this was removed.

Sandy2503

today is install a fresh version of raspian pixel on my raspi 2 with the new version (2.1.1) of MagicMirror and the actual version of PM2 (2.4.5)

But the autostart function themes not to work and in the pm2-root.service is no part to set the idle time.

How can i fix the idle Problem ?