Pimatic crashing on start - SyntaxError: Unexpected character:

Anduril

Hey there,

I have my RPi running a few days and it was working well until 2 days ago. Pimatic run fine and the system was stable.
When I started installing raspiBackup-script (https://www.linux-tips-and-tricks.de/de/raspibackup) things started to become mysterious…
I installed and run this script and activated the nfs-kernel-server to export an usb-hdd for backup of other RPis in my network. These two things were the only changes to a “known to be working” RPi with pimatic.
This is the log of running pimatic.js now:

pi@OctoPi:~ $ sudo pimatic.js
19:46:53.424 2017-10-19 Thursday
19:46:58.363 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.42
19:46:58.485 [pimatic] Startup error: SyntaxError: Unexpected character: ; input: ï¿½-6i
                                                                                        iï¿½iXï¿½KoXGï¿½ï¿½bï¿½ï¿½+ï¿½z>ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Eï¿½jï¿½Iï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Mï¿½É¸hï¿½qï¿½ï¿½Hï¿½ï¿½cMï¿½pÙ»>'ï¿½ï¿½3ï¿½ï¿½IMï¿½0ï¿½vï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Þ/ï¿½ï¿½[%ï¿ï¿½d
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/relaxed-json/relaxed-json.js:70:21
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Object.transform (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/relaxed-json/relaxed-json.js:232:18)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Framework._loadConfig (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/lib/framework.coffee:143:39)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at new Framework (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/lib/framework.coffee:61:8)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/startup.coffee:94:17
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at tryCatcher (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Function.Promise.attempt.Promise.try (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/method.js:39:29)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Object.startup (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/startup.coffee:93:10)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at run (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js:15:24)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js:20:3)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:441:10)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at startup (node.js:139:18)
19:46:58.485 [pimatic]>    at node.js:990:3
19:46:58.488 [pimatic] exiting...
PuTTYPuTTYpi@OctoPi:~ $ PuTTYPuTTY

What I’m wondering about is these “PuTTyPuTTy” in the shell after exiting pimatic. Have never seen something similiar before…

mwittig

@Anduril Looks like the file system has been corrupted.

Anduril

well… do you see any option to recover or do I have to reinstall the complete pi? I already did sudo shutdown -r -F and found the following in the logs:

pi@OctoPi:~/pimatic-app/node_modules $ sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep fsck
Oct 19 21:04:34 OctoPi systemd[1]: Stopping system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
Oct 19 21:04:34 OctoPi systemd[1]: Removed slice system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
Oct 19 21:04:40 OctoPi systemd-fsck[120]: e2fsck 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)
Oct 19 21:04:40 OctoPi systemd-fsck[120]: /dev/mmcblk0p2: sauber, 83895/967680 Dateien, 502736/3900416 BlÃ¶cke
Oct 19 21:04:40 OctoPi systemd-fsck[236]: fsck.fat 3.0.27 (2014-11-12)
Oct 19 21:04:40 OctoPi systemd-fsck[236]: /dev/mmcblk0p1: 146 files, 2861/8057 clusters
Oct 19 21:04:40 OctoPi kernel: [    0.000000] Kernel command line: 8250.nr_uarts=0 bcm2708_fb.fbwidth=656 bcm2708_fb.fbheight=416 bcm2708_fb.fbswap=1 vc_mem.mem_base=0x3dc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x3f000000  dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait

but I don’t understand what it means. Did it find and repair something?