How to upgrade from an old version of MSR?

[Pabla]

Successfully got MSR to run on a VM running Ubuntu 22.04 but am running into an issue with getting to run MSR as a service. Here is what my reactor.service file looks like below.

However when I go to run the service I see this error: reactor.service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /usr/bin/node: No such file or directory. Checked and the node file exists in this directory. Kinda stuck at this point, probably a simple fix but I am way in over my head

[Service]

Type=simple

User=armans2

WorkingDirectory=/home/reactor

Environment=/home/reactor

ExecStart=/usr/bin/node app -p

Restart=on-failure

RestartSec=5s

[toggledbits]

It may exist in that directory, but possibly as a broken symbolic link. This file (and similar like npm) are often symlinked to a different directory where the real executable file is installed. Can you post the output of ls -ld /usr/bin/node? And if it is a symlink, make sure the location/file it points to exists.

Also the Environment line is malformed. Refer to the reactor.service-example file in the tools directory.

[Pabla]

@toggledbits heres the output -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81180048 Jul 7 05:05 /usr/bin/node

I did create a symlink hoping that would work using this command /usr/bin$ sudo ln -s node nodejs

[toggledbits]

Not sure where you are going with that symlink. The file should be called node and not nodejs, so don't do that. What happens when you run /usr/bin/node -v on the command line?

[Pabla]

v16.16.0 is the resonse

[toggledbits]

Good. Then your WorkingDirectory is wrong. So is your Environment line (see my earlier comment, it's malformed). Are you sure the WorkingDirectory should not be /home/armans2/reactor? That would make more sense for the configuration of User.

[Pabla]

@toggledbits Ha that was it, I was playing around with the Environment line cause it wasn't working at first and forgot to revert it back. Now that I have MSR working as a service, will this start on boot, or do I have to configure that?

[toggledbits]

systemctl enable reactor.service

[tunnus]

@pabla said in Troubles Running MSR as a Service:

@toggledbits Ha that was it, I was playing around with the Environment line cause it wasn't working at first and forgot to revert it back. Now that I have MSR working as a service, will this start on boot, or do I have to configure that?

If you are able to use Docker, life is much much easier...

[Pabla]

Excellent! Making the move from Vera to HA with MSR and MSR is making it so so much easier!

[Pabla]

@tunnus Was debating on using Docker, but for now I am running HA OS and MSR on two separate Virtual Machine on my Windows comp just to get things up and running. Will probably migrate my set up to a NUC later