New reinstall - ghost service stops - have to unlock migrations

If you’re looking for some help, it’s important to provide as much context as possible so that people are able to assist you. Try to always mention:

  • What’s your URL? not up yet

  • What version of Ghost are you using? latest

  • What configuration? ubuntu 24 - install

  • What browser? not relevant

  • What errors or information do you see in the console? A GhostError occurred.

    Message: Could not communicate with Ghost

  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having?

Just sharing experience as may assist someone else.

Installed on proxmox VM and decided to reinstall as I got sharp error when attempting to upload an image.

It may be that the mysql db is very slow (disks are shared NFS).

But install failed on first attempt - so I dropped db and started again

Following journal - db tables are being created and then ghost service stops and ghost won’t start.

AI helped identify how to fix.

login to mysql as root

use ghost_db;
UPDATE migrations_lock SET locked=0 WHERE lock_key='km01';

quit mysql

as non root user ghost start and db tables start to be created again.

Had to repeat twice more.

But the install succeeded