I’m trying to install the current (50.90.2) Ghost on a previously-fresh Google Cloud VM (Ubuntu 22.04). All was well until…
✖ Downloading and installing Ghost v5.90.2
A ProcessError occurred.
which appears to have been a yarn error. Network burp?
I’m inclined to just run ghost install again, but before I do… should I clean any directories?
Did you run ghost install in the Ghost folder under /var/www? If so, was anything created in that folder?
The output posted suggests that the installation didn’t complete downloading.
Make sure you followed this guide.
You can use the Ghost CLI to check things, e.g., ghost ls and ghost doctor.
Thanks… actually running ghost install again seemed to work, but I get a SQL error about something wanting to run as root which is weird becasue I can certainly log into mysql on that account.
Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Is there a way to change Ghost’s behavior here?
ghost doctor shows no error, ghost ls shows, as you might expect, that the server is stopped.
From journalctl (ghost-botz-2024 is the machine name):
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: Error ID:
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: 500
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: Error Code:
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: ER_ACCESS_DENIED_NO_PASSWORD_ERROR
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: ----------------------------------------
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: Error: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at /var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/knex-migrator/lib/database.js:57:19
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at Packet.asError (/var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/mysql2/lib/packets/packet.js:738:17)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at ClientHandshake.execute (/var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/mysql2/lib/commands/command.js:29:26)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at Connection.handlePacket (/var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/mysql2/lib/connection.js:481:34)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at PacketParser.onPacket (/var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/mysql2/lib/connection.js:97:12)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at PacketParser.executeStart (/var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/mysql2/lib/packet_parser.js:75:16)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at Socket.<anonymous> (/var/www/vumondo/versions/5.90.2/node_modules/mysql2/lib/connection.js:104:25)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at Socket.emit (node:events:519:28)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]:
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: [2024-08-29 19:33:31] WARN Ghost is shutting down
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: [2024-08-29 19:33:31] WARN Ghost has shut down
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: [2024-08-29 19:33:31] WARN Your site is now offline
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: [2024-08-29 19:33:31] WARN Ghost was running for a few seconds
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 node[23667]: [2024-08-29 19:33:31] INFO Bootstrap client was closed.
Aug 29 19:33:31 ghost-botz-2024 systemd[1]: Stopping Ghost systemd service for blog: www-vumondo-com...
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: /usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/process-manager.js:46
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: throw error;
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: ^
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: {
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: message: {
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: statusCode: 500,
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: errorType: 'DatabaseError',
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: level: 'critical',
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: id: 500,
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: help: 'Unknown database error',
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: code: 'ER_ACCESS_DENIED_NO_PASSWORD_ERROR',
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: property: null,
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: redirect: null,
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: hideStack: false,
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: message: "Ghost was able to start, but errored during boot with: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'",
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: name: 'DatabaseError',
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: errno: 1698,
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: sqlState: '28000',
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: sqlMessage: "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'"
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: }
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: }
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 node[23642]: Node.js v20.17.0
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 systemd[1]: ghost_www-vumondo-com.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 systemd[1]: ghost_www-vumondo-com.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 systemd[1]: Stopped Ghost systemd service for blog: www-vumondo-com.
Aug 29 19:33:32 ghost-botz-2024 systemd[1]: ghost_www-vumondo-com.service: Consumed 2.677s CPU time.
Nothing to do with Ghost. A clean install of Ubuntu doesn’t authenticate MySQL using a password, so you’ll need to change this to native password.
In MySQL use:
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password'
I’d create a database user for Ghost and avoid using the root account.