Hi All, I’ve installed Ghost as per the official Ubuntu guides, but am unable to start it. I see the below in the logs Debug Information: OS: Ubuntu, v20.04.3 LTS Node Version: v14.18.1 Ghost Version: 4.19.1 Ghost-CLI Version: 1.17.4 Environment: production Command: 'ghost …

Interesting, if I use ghost config --process local then set the permissions for folder content to be the user I want, ghost starts !! Seems it’s an issue with systemd but not sure where presently.

✔ Checking system Node.js version - found v14.18.1 ✔ Checking logged in user ✔ Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user ✔ Checking if logged in user is directory owner ✔ Checking current folder permissions ✔ Checking system compatibility ✔ Checking f…

Anyone able to assist with this ? Thanks

Have you updated your ghost-cli?

Ok, so, have you started it previously? Or is this directly after installation? Which guide specifically, did you use?

Directly after install. I’ve since found this in journalctl Oct 21 16:49:22 vps.phenomlab.com systemd[78484]: ghost_blog-sudonix-com.service: Changing to the requested workin>Oct 21 16:49:22 vps.phenomlab.com systemd[78484]: ghost_blog-sudonix-com.service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /u>Oct 21 1…

[image] phenomlab: Failed at step CHDIR spawning Makes me think it might be a permission issue. Did you 775 the ghost directory?

Check this out: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /usr/bin/node: No such file or directory

Unable to start Ghost

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phenomlab October 21, 2021, 8:34pm 10

Yes. I tried that multiple times but it doesn’t seem to have made any difference

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