Ugh, I think i found it. You need to do npm install as root…

Wait, nope!

pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install

> electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
  throw err
  ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources'
    at Error (native)
npm ERR! Linux 4.9.25-v7+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v6.10.2
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1

Ugh, I give up. Going to bed. Thanks for your help, i’ll fix in the morning.

Having the exact same problem. Been searching and trying to fix for hours

@cowboysdude Man, I searched everywhere yesterday for something like this. I tried searching RSS, XML, Feed, you name it.

Thanks! I’m happy for 1 at a time with a thumbnail!

Hey mate, I think I have a bug for you.

In MMM-PNews.js you hard code in the sorting method (latest) for the source.

this.url = "https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=" + this.config.newsSource + "&sortBy=Latest&apiKey=";

Latest isn’t a valid sorting method for some sources.
Example is the https://newsapi.org/abc-news-au-api

If you hit that with the url they provide with Latest in there for sorting, it fails and gives

{"status":"error","code":"sourceUnavailableSortedBy","message":"The news source you've selected (abc-news-au) isn't available sorted by latest"}

But if you change Latest to Top in the url, works fine.

This is causing some feeds to not work.

I just tried

npm install npm@latest -g
npm install -g grunt
npm install -g electron

and when installing electron I get

pi@Pi:~ $ sudo npm install -g electron
/usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js

> electron@1.6.6 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
  throw err
  ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/dist/resources'
    at Error (native)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.6.6 postinstall script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs electron
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-01T02_57_00_518Z-debug.log

@cowboysdude said in Electron NPM Error:

npm install && npm start

Ok, trying now.

sigh Failed.

pi@Pi:~ $ sudo apt-get install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nodejs is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libc-ares2 libv8-3.14.5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
pi@Pi:~ $ git clone https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
Cloning into 'MagicMirror'...
remote: Counting objects: 7394, done.
remote: Total 7394 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 7394
Receiving objects: 100% (7394/7394), 11.00 MiB | 492.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4086/4086), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
pi@Pi:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install && npm start
npm WARN prefer global coffee-script@1.10.0 should be installed with -g
npm WARN prefer global jsonlint@1.6.2 should be installed with -g

> electron-chromedriver@1.6.0 install /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron-chromedriver
> node ./download-chromedriver.js


> electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
  throw err
  ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat '/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/resources'
    at Error (native)

npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@1.6.6 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.6.6 postinstall script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR!     npm bugs electron
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2017-05-01T03_24_28_075Z-debug.log

Holy crap, that worked. I’m back in business!

1000 camels to you, good sir!

Awesome, thanks!

Also, mine doesn’t seem to be updating the feed. (Sorry!)

Seeing this in the log?
fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-PNews/’: GnuTLS recv error (-54): Error in the pull function.

Hey mate, I think I have a bug for you.

In MMM-PNews.js you hard code in the sorting method (latest) for the source.

this.url = "https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=" + this.config.newsSource + "&sortBy=Latest&apiKey=";

Latest isn’t a valid sorting method for some sources.
Example is the https://newsapi.org/abc-news-au-api

If you hit that with the url they provide with Latest in there for sorting, it fails and gives

{"status":"error","code":"sourceUnavailableSortedBy","message":"The news source you've selected (abc-news-au) isn't available sorted by latest"}

But if you change Latest to Top in the url, works fine.

This is causing some feeds to not work.

Holy crap, that worked. I’m back in business!

1000 camels to you, good sir!

pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ sudo npm install
npm WARN lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~install: cannot run in wd %s %s (wd=%s) magicmirror@2.1.1 cd vendor && npm install /home/pi/MagicMirror
npm WARN lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~postinstall: cannot run in wd %s %s (wd=%s) magicmirror@2.1.1 sh installers/postinstall/postinstall.sh /home/pi/MagicMirror
npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $

Soon as I wrote that…

i@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm install electron

> electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

magicmirror@2.1.1 /home/pi/MagicMirror
└── electron@1.6.6 

npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.

now it’s just hanging at the install of electron. Been there for 5 minutes now

pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror $ cd node_modules/
pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm uninstall extract-zip
- ms@0.7.1 node_modules/extract-zip/node_modules/ms
- debug@2.2.0 node_modules/extract-zip/node_modules/debug
- pend@1.2.0 node_modules/pend
- fd-slicer@1.0.1 node_modules/fd-slicer
- yauzl@2.4.1 node_modules/yauzl
- extract-zip@1.6.4 node_modules/extract-zip
npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm install extract-zip@1.6.0
magicmirror@2.1.1 /home/pi/MagicMirror
└─┬ spectron@3.6.2
  └─┬ electron-chromedriver@1.6.0
    └─┬ extract-zip@1.6.0 
      ├─┬ concat-stream@1.5.0 
      │ └─┬ readable-stream@2.0.6 
      │   └── isarray@1.0.0 
      ├── debug@0.7.4 
      └─┬ yauzl@2.4.1 
        └─┬ fd-slicer@1.0.1 
          └── pend@1.2.0 

npm WARN grunt-stylelint@0.8.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
npm WARN stylelint-config-standard@16.0.0 requires a peer of stylelint@^7.8.0 but none was installed.
pi@Pi:~/MagicMirror/node_modules $ sudo npm install electron

> electron@1.6.6 postinstall /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

@Nomis said in Electron NPM Error:

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/2460/magicmirror-fails-to-install-during-electron-installation

Those steps didn’t help.

• /home/pi/MagicMirror/vendors npm install (This installed some missing stuff that seems to have not installed)
• /home/pi/MagicMirror/ npm install (This failed, but showed that electron was missing. Only failed due to permission)
• /home/pi/MagicMirror/ sudo npm install (This died with error ECONNRESET, so tried again)

I installed npm in Vendors. Now my error log is significantly less, but still dies.

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/nodejs', '/usr/bin/npm', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@4.5.0
3 info using node@v6.10.2
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~prestart: magicmirror@2.1.1
6 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing
7 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: magicmirror@2.1.1
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin$
10 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: CWD: /home/pi/MagicMirror
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: Args: [ '-c', 'sh run-start.sh' ]
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.1.1~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.1.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
13 verbose stack spawn ENOENT
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:33:16)
13 verbose stack     at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:886:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.1.1
15 verbose cwd /home/pi/MagicMirror
16 verbose Linux 4.9.24-v7+
17 verbose argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
18 verbose node v6.10.2
19 verbose npm  v4.5.0
20 error file sh
21 error code ELIFECYCLE
22 error errno ENOENT
23 error syscall spawn
24 error magicmirror@2.1.1 start: `sh run-start.sh`
24 error spawn ENOENT
25 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.1.1 start script 'sh run-start.sh'.
25 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
25 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the magicmirror package,
25 error not with npm itself.
25 error Tell the author that this fails on your system:
25 error     sh run-start.sh
25 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
25 error     npm bugs magicmirror
25 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
25 error     npm owner ls magicmirror
25 error There is likely additional logging output above.
26 verbose exit [ 1, true ]