@sdetweil

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node -v
v16.13.2

@sdetweil
Good news, bad news…

Everything worked great until the last reboot. Post reboot, the MM restarting every minute starts again.

Another observation, while running the fixuppm2 script I get those odd warnings:
Accessing non-existent property ‘pwd’ of module exports inside circular dependency

Several months ago, January I think, you helped me with the gpu related restarting. Once we got that working I don’t think the Pi4 rebooted until last week. I have very stable power and it’s plugged into a UPS. I think this problem may have been laying dormant for a long time.

If you have other things you want me to try, let me know. For right now I have it working and I know the procedure to get it working again if I have to reboot for any reason.

@sdetweil

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls ~/.pm2
dump.pm2 dump.pm2.bak logs module_conf.json modules pids pm2.log pub.sock rpc.sock touch

The SD card is probably a couple of years old.

This had been running fine for several months until I had to power down the Pi for a couple of minutes. Now it restarts every minute or so. Nothing unusual in the pm2 logs, but syslog shows issues with pm2. Log examples are at the bottom of this post.

Here are the machine details:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.97-v7l+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:21:14 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1939 243 736 196 959 1402
Swap: 99 3 96[Restart Example Logs.txt](Invalid file type. Allowed types are: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif)

I had a problem with restarts earlier in the year, but adding “–disable-gpu” to package.json corrected that. This issues is different.

Log examples:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log

magicmirror@2.19.0 start
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron --disable-gpu js/electron.js

[15.05.2022 09:51.06.160] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.19.0
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.169] [LOG] Loading config …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.176] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.179] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.205] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.207] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.209] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.562] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.564] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-AVStock
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.724] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.726] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.728] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.750] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.751] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.751] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.845] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.861] [LOG] Server started …
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.863] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.864] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.865] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-AVStock
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.866] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.867] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.868] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.868] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[15.05.2022 09:51.06.869] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
[15.05.2022 09:51.07.189] [LOG] Launching application.
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.622] [LOG] [AVSTOCK] Initialized.
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.648] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.702] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.717] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.733] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.749] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/.rss?format=xml - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.759] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: https://rss.bizjournals.com/feed/xxxx- Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.766] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-AVStock
[15.05.2022 09:51.10.827] [INFO] Checking git for module: default
[15.05.2022 09:51.11.535] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 27 items.
[15.05.2022 09:51.11.614] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 19 items.
[15.05.2022 09:51.12.064] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 3 events.
[15.05.2022 09:51.12.456] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 32 items.
[15.05.2022 09:51.12.562] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 5 events.
[15.05.2022 09:51.13.815] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 11 events.

magicmirror@2.19.0 start
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron --disable-gpu js/electron.js

[15.05.2022 09:51.49.060] [LOG] Starting MagicMirror: v2.19.0
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.069] [LOG] Loading config …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.077] [LOG] Loading module helpers …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.080] [LOG] No helper found for module: alert.
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.104] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.107] [LOG] Module helper loaded: updatenotification
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.108] [LOG] No helper found for module: clock.
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.456] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.457] [LOG] Module helper loaded: MMM-AVStock
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.617] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.619] [LOG] Module helper loaded: calendar
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.620] [LOG] No helper found for module: weather.
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.642] [LOG] Initializing new module helper …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.643] [LOG] Module helper loaded: newsfeed
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.644] [LOG] All module helpers loaded.
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.736] [LOG] Starting server on port 8080 …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.753] [LOG] Server started …
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.755] [LOG] Connecting socket for: updatenotification
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.756] [LOG] Starting module helper: updatenotification
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.757] [LOG] Connecting socket for: MMM-AVStock
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.758] [LOG] Connecting socket for: calendar
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.759] [LOG] Starting node helper for: calendar
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.760] [LOG] Connecting socket for: newsfeed
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.761] [LOG] Starting node helper for: newsfeed
[15.05.2022 09:51.49.762] [LOG] Sockets connected & modules started …
[15.05.2022 09:51.50.087] [LOG] Launching application.
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.833] [LOG] [AVSTOCK] Initialized.
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.853] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.897] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.902] [LOG] Create new calendarfetcher for url: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.908] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.914] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/.rss?format=xml - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.919] [LOG] Create new newsfetcher for url: https://rss.bizjournals.com/feed/xxxx - Interval: 300000
[15.05.2022 09:51.53.925] [INFO] Checking git for module: MMM-AVStock
[15.05.2022 09:51.54.020] [INFO] Checking git for module: default
[15.05.2022 09:51.54.559] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 3 events.
[15.05.2022 09:51.54.814] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 27 items.
[15.05.2022 09:51.54.919] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 19 items.
[15.05.2022 09:51.55.390] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 5 events.
[15.05.2022 09:51.55.647] [INFO] Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 32 items.
[15.05.2022 09:51.56.729] [INFO] Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 11 events.

/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log

[32038:0515/095107.242238:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[32196:0515/095150.137653:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[32342:0515/095320.859027:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tail -100 /var/log/syslog
May 15 10:14:24 raspberrypi pm2[403]: │ 0 │ MagicMirror │ default │ 2.19.0 │ fork │ N/A │ 0 │ 0 │ stopped │ 0% │ 0b │ pi │ disabled │
May 15 10:14:24 raspberrypi pm2[403]: └─────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
May 15 10:14:24 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Can’t open PID file /home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Failed with result ‘timeout’.
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start PM2 process manager.
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3547.
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped PM2 process manager.
May 15 10:15:52 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting PM2 process manager…
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘cat’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘cd’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘chmod’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘cp’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘dirs’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘pushd’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘popd’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘echo’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘tempdir’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘pwd’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘exec’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘ls’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘find’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘grep’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘head’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘ln’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘mkdir’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘rm’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘mv’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘sed’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘set’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘sort’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘tail’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘test’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘to’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘toEnd’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘touch’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘uniq’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:53 raspberrypi pm2[423]: (node:423) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘which’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: [PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: [PM2] Resurrecting
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: [PM2] Restoring processes located in /home/pi/.pm2/dump.pm2
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: [PM2] Process /home/pi/MagicMirror/installers/mm.sh restored
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: ┌─────┬────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: │ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: ├─────┼────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: │ 0 │ MagicMirror │ default │ 2.19.0 │ fork │ N/A │ 0 │ 0 │ stopped │ 0% │ 0b │ pi │ disabled │
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi pm2[423]: └─────┴────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
May 15 10:15:54 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Can’t open PID file /home/pi/.pm2/pm2.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
May 15 10:17:01 raspberrypi CRON[455]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Failed with result ‘timeout’.
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start PM2 process manager.
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: pm2-pi.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3548.
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped PM2 process manager.
May 15 10:17:22 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting PM2 process manager…
May 15 10:17:23 raspberrypi pm2[467]: [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/pi/.pm2
May 15 10:17:24 raspberrypi pm2[467]: (node:467) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘cat’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:17:24 raspberrypi pm2[467]: (Use node --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)
May 15 10:17:24 raspberrypi pm2[467]: (node:467) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘cd’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:17:24 raspberrypi pm2[467]: (node:467) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘chmod’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:17:24 raspberrypi pm2[467]: (node:467) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘cp’ of module exports inside circular dependency
May 15 10:17:24 raspberrypi pm2[467]: (node:467) Warning: Accessing non-existent property ‘dirs’ of module exports inside circular dependency

@willbuden

Are you using the standard ‘weather’ module? Instead of lat/log try using the ‘locationID’. That’s what I’m doing for both ‘current’ and ‘forecast’ types and it’s working well.

Thad

@extra
I was just playing with this. I think you need to add:
ignoreOldItems: true

Thad

@sdetweil

I don’t recall making any edits to that file. Most items in that file are commented out. Here’s a list of what’s not commented out:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=97
dtparam=audio=on
[pi4]
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2
[all]
hdmi_force_hotplug=1

@sdetweil

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.97-v7l+ #1294 SMP Thu Jan 30 13:21:14 GMT 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1939 342 888 254 708 1261

@sdetweil

It’s buster and I believe the pi4 is a 2GB model.

@sdetweil

It’s a pi4 running Raspbian release 10.

@sdetweil

Looking good. Right at an hour with no restarts.

@sdetweil

That worked for around 20 minutes and now it’s restarting randomly again. Let me get the pm2 logs…

Here they are:

0|MagicMirror | Newsfeed-Fetcher: Broadcasting 54 items.
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:40.16.970] [INFO]
0|MagicMirror | Calendar-Fetcher: Broadcasting 9 events.
PM2 | pm2 has been killed by signal, dumping process list before exit…
PM2 | Deleting process 0
PM2 | Stopping app:MagicMirror id:0
PM2 | App [MagicMirror:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGTERM]
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:41.34.434] [LOG] Shutting down server…
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:41.34.457] [LOG] Stopping module helper: updatenotification
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:41.34.459] [LOG] Stopping module helper: MMM-AVStock
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:41.34.460] [LOG] Stopping module helper: calendar
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:41.34.461] [LOG] Stopping module helper: newsfeed
0|MagicMirror | [1561:0112/114134.512661:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(328)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
0|MagicMirror | [1561:0112/114134.561597:ERROR:zygote_communication_linux.cc(276)] Failed to send GetTerminationStatus message to zygote
0|MagicMirror | [1561:0112/114134.568770:ERROR:zygote_communication_linux.cc(276)] Failed to send GetTerminationStatus message to zygote
PM2 | pid=1533 msg=process killed
PM2 | Exited peacefully
0|MagicMirror | > magicmirror@2.18.0 start
0|MagicMirror | > DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
0|MagicMirror | [12.01.2022 11:41.39.771] [LOG]
0|MagicMirror | Starting MagicMirror: v2.18.0

@sdetweil

Looks promising! MagicMirror has been running with the same pid for 5 minutes now!

@sdetweil

I don’t have any cron jobs running. A crontab -l says there’s nothing for user pi.

@sdetweil

Thanks. I was able to remove the entry I created this morning, to there’s only one. I’m still having issues with pm2. If I start MM using pm2 after a couple of minutes it restarts. The pm2 log shows:

PM2 | pm2 has been killed by signal, dumping process list before exit…
PM2 | Deleting process 0
PM2 | Stopping app:MagicMirror id:0
PM2 | App [MagicMirror:0] exited with code [0] via signal [SIGTERM]
0|MagicMirror | /home/pi/MagicMirror/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGTERM
PM2 | pid=1386 msg=process killed
PM2 | Exited peacefully
0|MagicM

For some reason this keeps cycling. At the moment I’ve started MM using the run-start.sh script and it appears to be stable.

@bugsounet @bugsounet

Thanks for your help. This has me running again. I need to work on the weather module some more. I have the current weather working, but the forecast is hung on ‘loading’. Thanks again for the super quick responses!

@bugsounet said in Trying to update node.js fails:

sudo apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update

That made a big difference! The script that updates node.js now runs properly! Thanks.

I’ll keep playing and see if I can get this thing running again.

I don’t have nvm installed. The command ‘which nvm’ command returned nothing.

If I clear the pm2 logs and immediately look at them, I’m seeing something odd. It appears I have 2 processed controlled by pm2. Here’s the output:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 logs --lines=100
[TAILING] Tailing last 100 lines for [all] processes (change the value with --lines option)
/home/pi/.pm2/pm2.log last 100 lines:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-out.log last 100 lines:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/MagicMirror-error.log last 100 lines:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-out.log last 100 lines:
/home/pi/.pm2/logs/mm-error.log last 100 lines:

I think the MagicMirror references are to my initial installation from a year or two ago. The references to ‘mm’ are what I attempted to do this morning.

I recently updated MM and I’m having problems getting MM to start. It appears my issues are due to an old version of node.js (v10.15.2) and attempts to upgrade it fail. I can get MM to start using run-start.sh, but it doesn’t work with pm2. Here’s what I think should be a clue:

Check current Node installation …
Node currently installed. Checking version number.
Minimum Node version: v16.9.1
Installed Node version: v10.15.2
Node should be upgraded.
Installing Node.js …
E: Repository ‘http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘testing’ to ‘oldstable’
E: Repository ‘http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
nodejs is already the newest version (10.15.2~dfsg-2+rpi1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
node version is
Node.js installation Done! version=v10.15.2
Check current NPM installation …
NPM currently installed. Checking version number.
npm does not support Node.js v10.15.2
You should probably upgrade to a newer version of node as we
can’t make any promises that npm will work with this version.
You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:32

I need some help deciphering why it’s failing and what I can do to upgrade node.js successfully.

Let me know if you have any suggestions, or if you think I’m looking in the wrong direction.

Thanks.
Thad

Thanks @sdetweil that’s exactly what I needed to know about pm2. I did use your installer.

I’m now using the view height/width css file you created. That works great. Since I’m using a TV instead of a mirror, I want to reduce the outside margins. Currently there’s about an inch and a half of unused space around the border. I’m going to start playing with the main.css file to use all the monitor real estate.

Thad