homebridge-raspbian-image: hb-service update-node issue: Stops homebridge from starting.

Raspberry Pi Model

Raspberry Pi 4 B

Describe The Bug

This issue is happening for me on a bare metal install on rPI 4B from latest homebridge image.

Running into an issue with updating node to 18.15.0 I just installed latest homebridge image from scratch yesterday.

• I first figured out how to restore from backup. That took a while. I had to make sure i was using homebridge 1.5.1 and UI-X 4.50.1. Otherwise it would not restore from backup.
• After figuring that out, I then upgraded to latest homebridge via: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade All was good. I now had node version 18.13.0.
• I then performed a “hb-service update-node” command to get the latest node version. Thats when homebridge would not start.

The update-node command appears to work.

pi@homebridge:/var/lib/homebridge $ sudo hb-service update-node
       Installing Node.js v18.15.0 over v18.13.0...
       Target: /opt/homebridge
       Download complete.
       Cleaned up npm at at /opt/homebridge/lib/node_modules/npm
       Installed Node.js v18.15.0
Please restart Homebridge for the changes to take effect.

Homebridge at this point wont start. When i then try and run the update command again. sudo hb-service update-node I get this error /usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory

I am able to enter the shell:

pi@homebridge:/var/lib/homebridge $ sudo hb-service shell
Entering Homebridge Shell. To exit type 'exit'.

Note: This is a restricted shell, sudo cannot be used here.

Homebridge Terminal

bash: /opt/homebridge/bin/node: No such file or directory
Node.js Version: 
Node.js Path: /opt/homebridge/bin/node
Plugin Path: /var/lib/homebridge/node_modules

Notice the bash error? And also the Node.js version is blank. When I navigate to cd /opt/homebridge/bin/ And see directory contents ls -l I am able to see that node is present. So I don’t understand why the error. Also if it’s useful. When installing hombridge via the image. Homebridge appears to run as user pi.

This is all starting from a fresh homebridge image install. So there is no other Nodejs manager that was installed. I was able to repeat this issue from fresh install many times. I kept thinking I must have done something wrong.

I believe one time during my retry attempts I was able to update to node 18.15.0 successfully. On this one succesful update, I upgraded to it from the hb-service shell, and ran the update-node command. Homebridge worked and was on the latest 18.15.0 node. Subsequently I ran a sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get dist-upgrade series of command, which also updated the homebridge package. That downgraded me to node 18.13.0. Homebridge would still load. So all was good. However after an hb-service update-node command. Homebridge then would no longer start again. Had the same issues noted above. So i think something happens that messes up the ability to upgrade node via hb-service update-node after performing your first os homebridge package update via apt-get install homebridge. I’m afraid right now of updating node via hb-service. I’ve got everything working. Any ideas what may be going on? Any ideas on how to recover from the “/usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory” error if i were to try and update again?

Thanks for the help!

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