Black Screen after Booting Up

nickymac12

Hi,
I recently made a mirror over the summer and I just moved into my college house. When I plugged my mirror back in it displayed the Raspberry Pi boot up like always and then went straight to the MagicMirror boot up, but after that the screen just goes black. It never brought up my desktop or anything. I have a Raspberry Pi 3 and the application was fully working before. I don’t know how to fix it because my keyboard and mouse aren’t responding when I plug them in.

If someone could help me out that would be amazing!

Thanks

Mykle1

@nickymac12 said in Black Screen after Booting Up:

If someone could help me out

After the bootup sequence and the screen goes black, have you tried your Alt key? If MM is running, and displaying a blank screen, you might get lucky. The Alt key should drop a menu down from the top. If it does, you won’t see your mouse until you move it all the way up into the menu bar, then you can quit the mirror from the leftmost menu.

Good luck

j.e.f.f

@nickymac12 are you able to connect remotely? over SSH? if so you might be able to check MM’s logs to see if anything went wrong

nickymac12

@Mykle1 I tried the alt key but nothing happened. The Windows key won’t pull down the menu either.

nickymac12

@j.e.f.f I usually use VNC Connect to connect to it remotely, but since I moved into a new house it isn’t connected to the new wifi so it won’t work.

Mykle1

@nickymac12

So the mirror has no internet connection?

j.e.f.f

@nickymac12 maybe try connecting a LAN cable. it should work with DHCP by default

nickymac12

@j.e.f.f I was able to connect but it still shows a black screen and I still cannot control it.

j.e.f.f

@nickymac12 is SSH enabled? if so try to connect that way. That will allow you to check MM’s logs

nickymac12

I am able to connect via SSH now. How do I check the MM’s logs?