I have multiple instances of Ghost running on a DigitalOcean Droplet. When going through the backup process, I was unable to backup the sites because they weren’t running. When I tried to start the sites, I received this error. This same error prevents start, backup, and update. I even attempted to …

The problem was finally resolved by creating a snapshot of the DigitalOcean Droplet of the backup when I had all the sites working. I used that snapshot to create a new Droplet. I waited for the DNS to resolve, then ran ghost ls and it showed that all the sites were running. stephen@bau:/var/www/st…

SystemError occurred when running ghost start: “Systemd process manager has not been set up or is corrupted.”

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bauhouse June 7, 2022, 8:12pm 10

I suspect this is a MySQL database issue with this solution.

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SystemError occurred when running ghost start: “Systemd process manager has not been set up or is corrupted.”

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