# Ghost installing error **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer help\ **Created:** [January 3, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-installing-error/11132 "2020-01-03T08:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mukeshjakharjat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mukeshjakharjat/32/5686_2.png) [@mukeshjakharjat](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mukeshjakharjat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-installing-error/11132/1 "2020-01-03T08:43:42Z")
when i run js script show this error returncode: 255 stdout: > ghost@3.2.0 start /home/dupchikc/mukesh/Ghost > node index [2020-01-03 08:41:44] e[31mERRORe[39m ER\_ACCESS\_DENIED\_ERROR: Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) e[31m e[31mER\_ACCESS\_DENIED\_ERROR: Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)e[39m e[33m"Unknown database error"e[39m e[1me[37mError ID:e[39me[22m e[90m500e[39m e[1me[37mError Code: e[39me[22m e[90mER\_ACCESS\_DENIED\_ERRORe[39m e[90m----------------------------------------e[39m e[90mDatabaseError: ER\_ACCESS\_DENIED\_ERROR: Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) at DatabaseError.KnexMigrateError (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/knex-migrator/lib/errors.js:7:26) at new DatabaseError (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/knex-migrator/lib/errors.js:55:26) at connection.raw.catch (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/knex-migrator/lib/database.js:47:19) at tryCatcher (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) at Promise.\_settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:547:31) at Promise.\_settlePromise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:604:18) at Promise.\_settlePromise0 (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:649:10) at Promise.\_settlePromises (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:725:18) at \_drainQueueStep (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:93:12) at \_drainQueue (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:86:9) at Async.\_drainQueues (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:102:5) at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as \_onImmediate] (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:15:14) at runCallback (timers.js:705:18) at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:676:5) at processImmediate (timers.js:658:5) Error: ER\_ACCESS\_DENIED\_ERROR: Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) at Handshake.Sequence.\_packetToError (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/sequences/Sequence.js:47:14) at Handshake.ErrorPacket (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/sequences/Handshake.js:123:18) at Protocol.\_parsePacket (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:291:23) at Parser.\_parsePacket (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Parser.js:433:10) at Parser.write (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Parser.js:43:10) at Protocol.write (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:38:16) at Socket. (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:91:28) at Socket. (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:525:10) at Socket.emit (events.js:198:13) at addChunk (\_stream\_readable.js:287:12) at readableAddChunk (\_stream\_readable.js:268:11) at Socket.Readable.push (\_stream\_readable.js:223:10) at TCP.onStreamRead [as onread] (internal/stream\_base\_commons.js:94:17) -------------------- at Protocol.\_enqueue (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:144:48) at Protocol.handshake (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:51:23) at Connection.connect (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:119:18) at \_bluebird.default (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/knex-migrator/node\_modules/knex/lib/dialects/mysql/index.js:82:18) at Promise.\_execute (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:384:9) at Promise.\_resolveFromExecutor (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:518:18) at new Promise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:103:10) at Client\_MySQL.acquireRawConnection (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/knex-migrator/node\_modules/knex/lib/dialects/mysql/index.js:77:12) at create (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/knex-migrator/node\_modules/knex/lib/client.js:282:21) at utils\_1.tryPromise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/tarn/lib/Pool.js:315:34) at Object.tryPromise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/tarn/lib/utils.js:53:24) at Promise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/tarn/lib/Pool.js:315:17) at Promise.\_execute (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:384:9) at Promise.\_resolveFromExecutor (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:518:18) at new Promise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:103:10) at callbackOrPromise (/home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/lib/node\_modules/tarn/lib/Pool.js:306:12)e[39m e[39m stderr: npm WARN lifecycle The node binary used for scripts is /home/dupchikc/nodevenv/mukesh/Ghost/10/bin/node but npm is using /opt/alt/alt-nodejs10/root/usr/bin/node itself. Use the `--scripts-prepend-node-path` option to include the path for the node binary npm was executed with. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 255 npm ERR! ghost@3.2.0 start: `node index` npm ERR! Exit status 255 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the ghost@3.2.0 start script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/dupchikc/.npm/\_logs/2020-01-03T08\_41\_44\_850Z-debug.log