(Solved) PM2 does not start on reboot

amanzimdwini

@xbmcnut Hey - I’m not the only one any more… Same problem: used to work on an OLD installation, and now - nothing. I am just working on a brand new one tonight.
BTW: does you screensaver stay off? I had to work quite a bit at getting that working in the new distro.

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.