'ghost start' just wont work... 'ghost run' is fine

Developer help
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‘ghost start’ just wont work and hangs forever.

Followed all instructions here - How to resolve errors when running ghost start - Ghost Developers

Read up on all similar blog posts and taken recommended action - but not seen my error before.

  • What’s your URL? This is the easiest way for others to debug your issue

https:blog.richardcrosby.co.uk

  • What version of Ghost are you using?

Latest

  • What configuration?

Typical and validated. Tried the ‘remove bootstrap port’ trick but no luck.

  • What browser?

Chrome

  • What errors or information do you see in the console?

‘ghost run’ stalls forever. If I run ‘sudo systemctl start ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk’

● ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service - Ghost systemd service for blog: blog-richardcrosby-co-uk
   Loaded: loaded (/var/www/ghost/system/files/ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-12-31 02:39:32 UTC; 17s ago
     Docs: https://docs.ghost.org
  Process: 31557 ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /usr/local/bin/ghost run (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 31557 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

    Dec 31 02:39:32 itsaunixsystem systemd[1]: ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
    Dec 31 02:39:32 itsaunixsystem systemd[1]: ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
    Dec 31 02:39:32 itsaunixsystem systemd[1]: Stopped Ghost systemd service for blog: blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.
    Dec 31 02:39:32 itsaunixsystem systemd[1]: ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
    Dec 31 02:39:32 itsaunixsystem systemd[1]: ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    Dec 31 02:39:32 itsaunixsystem systemd[1]: Failed to start Ghost systemd service for blog: blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.

Any help much appreciated.

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Service details -

ghost_blog-richardcrosby-co-uk.service

[Unit]
Description=Ghost systemd service for blog: blog-richardcrosby-co-uk
Documentation=https://docs.ghost.org

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/ghost
User=998
Environment="NODE_ENV=production"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /usr/local/bin/ghost run
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Fixed it -

ghost was installed at /usr/bin/ not /usr/local/bin/

[Unit]
Description=Ghost systemd service for blog: blog-richardcrosby-co-uk
Documentation=https://docs.ghost.org

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/ghost
User=998
Environment="NODE_ENV=production"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /usr/bin/ghost run
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target