Same problem here, frontail does not work after restart. Tried it several times.
Additionally, in my case, the frontail log viewer does not show anything. When I open the logfiles in an editor, openhab.log only contains some old entries from bootup some hours ago, and events.log is completely empty.
Having the same problem. New fresh install openhab 3. Blank screen when accessing frontal, no log information, just the header, as above the log files do contain entries if I check them using another editor. Have checked the service file as above, all is correct. Also the service is running. Have done 2 full reinstalls and no luck, also have reinstalled log viewer via openhabian-config. And still no change
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Which service are you talking about here? openhab or frontail?
In my case, after a restart of the openhab.service frontail was dead and needed to be stated additionally.
Don’t know if you’re facing the same problem as me … ( frontail was correctly running without anything displayed in the browse altough new messages arrive in the log … ). To fix it I came back to a previous version of one file [index.html] … see :
Where do I find the index.html in question?
/usr/lib/node_modules/frontail/web/index.html
alternatively you can follow the stesp in my previous post to replace the socket.io library and continue to use the websocket capabilities.
I am facing as it seems the same problem as described in post 1. The only difference is that I’m using a a fresh OpenHAB 3 install via openhabian on ubuntu.
Interestingly the path listed in the log viewer uses openhab2 despite a fresh install.
Reinstalling the log viewer results in an error. As described in post 3
So I did this:
But sudo systemctl deamon-reload gives me “Unknown operation deamon-reload”
In the end the path in the log viewer is changed, but still no logs are shown.
Any ideas?
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Typo! Correct spelling is daemon
Do I understand you correct, that you did an OH3 install from scratch but openhab2 path is seen in e.g. the frontail setup ?
Please check if you are on the latest version of openhabian-config - there are regular updates that can be applied during startup of openhabian-config.
Besides that please make sure that you have an entry to select the OH3 branch in your openhabian-config configuration file in /etc folder. Not doing that even in case you installed OH3 you might get OH2 related paths in setups for additional software.
/etc/openhabian.conf needs to contain the row
clonebranch=openHAB3
in case you want to be on openHAB3 branch for openhabian-config and related tools.
Thanks for the fast feedback!
Thanks! I literally checked at least 10 times for a typo and didn’t find it 
Sadly it doesn’t fix the problem.
Correct.
No updates offered. As far as I can tell it is the most recent version → v1.6.2-1047(8ee3a8b)
That might be it. I have “stable” selected. I am surprised though that this results in OH2 related paths, as OH3 was the latest stable version, when I installed.
Can I simply change that now so that the paths are corrected or do I have to reinstall?
Edit the file and reinstall frontail.
Hey Guys,
thanks for sharing this. I faced exaclty the same issue and fixed it with this thread. I have openhabianpi and upgraded to OH3
But I had still the text:
openHAB 2 Log Viewer (frontail)
You can change it in:
sudo nano /usr/lib/node_modules/frontail/web/assets/styles/openhab.css
simply remove the 2 in the .navbar section:
.navbar .navbar-brand::before {
content: "openHAB Log Viewer (frontail)";
font-size: 150%;
padding-right: 30px;
}
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sure that you are on the right branch ? I am on OH3 branch and do not see that two in the file.
After upgrading to OH3 and after switching to the right branch you may have to reinstall frontail - in that way you also can get rid off the two.
I am on the right branch. But like others here in the thread the installation of frontnail in openhabian-config failed. So we needed to to adaptat the OH2 frontnail installation by and by hand. Just tried it again:
2021-01-24_08:10:31_CET [openHABian] Switching to branch openHAB3... OK
2021-01-24_08:10:46_CET [openHABian] Updating Linux package information... OK
2021-01-24_08:10:46_CET [openHABian] Installing Frontail prerequsites (NodeJS)... OK
2021-01-24_08:11:20_CET [openHABian] Updating openHAB Log Viewer (frontail)... FAILED
2021-01-24_08:12:11_CET [openHABian] Checking for default openHABian username:password combination... OK
2021-01-24_08:12:11_CET [openHABian] We hope you got what you came for! See you again soon ;)
The related code in openhabian-config that seemed to fail in your case is:
if [[ -x $(command -v frontail) ]]; then
echo -n "$(timestamp) [openHABian] Updating openHAB Log Viewer (frontail)... "
if cond_redirect npm update --force -g frontail; then echo "OK"; else echo "FAILED"; return 1; fi
else
echo -n "$(timestamp) [openHABian] Installing openHAB Log Viewer (frontail)... "
It looks like an installed frontail version was found but it was not possible to update it ( the failed command is “npm update --force -g frontail”.
Would you mind to run the command
sudo npm --verbose update --force g frontail
manually. It may help to identify the root cause of the problem.
Did it:
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm verb cli [
npm verb cli '/usr/bin/node',
npm verb cli '/usr/bin/npm',
npm verb cli '--verbose',
npm verb cli 'update',
npm verb cli '--force',
npm verb cli 'g',
npm verb cli 'frontail'
npm verb cli ]
npm info using npm@6.14.10
npm info using node@v12.20.1
npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
npm verb npm-session 10c4301a7f186e0d
npm verb update computing outdated modules to update
npm verb exit [ 0, true ]
npm timing npm Completed in 797ms
npm info ok
I hope this helps… 
Buy the way: For sure a previous version is there from OH2.
thanks for trying. No, at the moment I don’t have a clue why it fails when you run the update via openhabian-config.