@sdetweil Yeah, I know. It should be the opposite, this method should be the default for dummies like myself!

@sdetweil Yes, full version with desktop.
Just deleted the whole MagicMirror folder and run your script.
It works PERFECTLY!

I don’t know why this isn’t the default was of installation, it’s sooooo easier!
Thank you for your assistance, much appreciated.

@sdetweil Thank you for that, I’ll try it.
Do I need to uninstall everything and then run your scripts?
Also, I have installed MM using the user “alex” instead of “pi”. Do I need to change anything in your scripts before I run them?

Perhaps I should also mention that during the installation process, I noticed a warning saying:

“this version of npm is compatible with lockfileVersion@1 but package-lock.json was generated for lockfileVersion@2”

I don’t know if this helps someone but I thought I’d mention it just in case.

Hi all,
New to MagicMirror and this is my first attempt to run it.
It is installed on a Rpi 3B+ with the latest Raspberry OS (2021-05-07-raspios-buster-armhf) and I used the manual installation method as per instructions.
When I try to run MM, this is what I get:

alex@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror $ npm run start

> magicmirror@2.16.0 start /home/alex/MagicMirror
> electron js/electron.js

[13.09.2021 12:34.16.087] [LOG]   Starting MagicMirror: v2.16.0
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.096] [LOG]   Loading config ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.110] [LOG]   Loading module helpers ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.114] [LOG]   No helper found for module: alert.
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.436] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.439] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.441] [LOG]   No helper found for module: clock.
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.700] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.702] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: calendar
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.704] [LOG]   No helper found for module: compliments.
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.706] [LOG]   No helper found for module: weather.
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.749] [LOG]   Initializing new module helper ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.750] [LOG]   Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.752] [LOG]   All module helpers loaded.
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.913] [LOG]   Starting server on port 8080 ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.942] [LOG]   Server started ...
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.944] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.946] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: calendar
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.947] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: calendar
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.949] [LOG]   Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.950] [LOG]   Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[13.09.2021 12:34.16.952] [LOG]   Sockets connected & modules started ...
/home/alex/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGSEGV
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.16.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.16.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/alex/.npm/_logs/2021-09-13T11_34_17_115Z-debug.log
alex@MagicMirror:~/MagicMirror $

Initially I had a different error and I thought I’d follow the troubleshooting instructions saying to change

"start": "DISPLAY=\"${DISPLAY:=:0}\" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

to

"start": "node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js",

which I did. Now I am getting the above error.
I checked the debug log and here’s what it contains:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'run', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@6.14.15
3 info using node@v14.17.6
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~prestart: magicmirror@2.16.0
6 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: magicmirror@2.16.0
7 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/home/alex/MagicMirror/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sb$
9 verbose lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: CWD: /home/alex/MagicMirror
10 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: Args: [ '-c', 'electron js/electron.js' ]
11 silly lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle magicmirror@2.16.0~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: magicmirror@2.16.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:400:28)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:400:28)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1055:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5)
14 verbose pkgid magicmirror@2.16.0
15 verbose cwd /home/alex/MagicMirror
16 verbose Linux 5.10.60-v7+
17 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "run" "start"
18 verbose node v14.17.6
19 verbose npm  v6.14.15
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error magicmirror@2.16.0 start: `electron js/electron.js`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the magicmirror@2.16.0 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

I don’t quite understand what this means. Anyone have any idea how to fix this please?