Updated to 2.31.0 (from 1.x) - 502 server errors - Ghost crashing, I believe

Developer help
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Hi All,

Since updating to 2.31.0 from (I think) 1.26, the admin UI is giving 502 errors when I try to browse posts, pages or upload images (e.g. a publication cover image).

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

https://bytes.fyi - but currently set to Private, as no images are loading properly.

  • What version of Ghost are you using?

v2.31.0

  • What configuration?

Linux (Raspbian/Debian), Raspberry Pi 2 - it’s been working fine for many years with v1.x (and experimenting with 2.x under a test domain).
Nginx reverse proxy for TLS with LetsEncrypt (hand-built though, as my original Ghost was v0.x and ghost-cli wasn’t a thing back then…)

  • What browser?

Chrome

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

Running ghost log, it looks as if ghost is restarting when I’m shown a 502 error in the GUI:

[2019-09-11 09:15:50] INFO "GET /ghost/api/canary/admin/settings/?type=blog%2Ctheme%2Cprivate%2Cmembers" 200 232ms
[2019-09-11 09:15:50] INFO "GET /ghost/api/canary/admin/notifications/" 200 266ms
[2019-09-11 09:15:50] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 09:15:50] INFO "POST /private/?r=%2F" 302 91ms
[2019-09-11 09:15:50] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 09:15:51] INFO "GET /public/ghost-sdk.min.js?v=1e9f66929a" 200 26ms
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] INFO Ghost is running in production...
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] INFO Your site is now available on https://bytes.fyi/
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] INFO Ctrl+C to shut down
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Tries: 0
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Retrying...
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Tries: 1
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Retrying...
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Tries: 2
[2019-09-11 09:16:14] WARN Retrying...
[2019-09-11 09:16:15] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 09:16:15] INFO Ghost boot 14.882s
  • What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having?

Doing practically anything in the ghost admin UI.

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It seems that my ‘private’ setting was not saved, as the site is now available - albeit the images trigger 502 errors when attempting to load them.

Simply attempting to load the site at https://bytes.fyi seems to trigger ghost to restart. :frowning:

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Which ghost-cli version you are using?

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Ghost-CLI version: 1.11.0
Ghost version: 2.31.0 (at /var/www/ghost)

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Out of curiosity, I tried using ghost stop then ghost run, and then refreshed the page for my blog a couple of times, to trigger the problem. This is the output:

pi@pi4:/var/www/ghost $ ghost run
The `ghost run` command is used by the configured Ghost process manager and for debugging. If you're not running this to debug something, you should run `ghost start` instead.
+ sudo node current/index.js
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] INFO Ghost is running in production...
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] INFO Your site is now available on https://bytes.fyi/
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] INFO Ctrl+C to shut down
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Tries: 0
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Retrying...
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Tries: 1
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Retrying...
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Tries: 2
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Retrying...
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] WARN Can't connect to the bootstrap socket (localhost 8000) ECONNREFUSED
[2019-09-11 10:47:37] INFO Ghost boot 14.962s
[2019-09-11 10:47:38] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /favicon.ico" 200 23ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /" 200 2513ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /assets/built/screen.css?v=ffa1e10f60" 200 36ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /public/ghost-sdk.min.js?v=ffa1e10f60" 200 49ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /assets/built/jquery.fitvids.js?v=ffa1e10f60" 200 35ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /assets/built/infinitescroll.js?v=ffa1e10f60" 200 25ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 10:47:40] INFO "GET /assets/built/prism.js?v=ffa1e10f60" 200 21ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:41] INFO "GET /favicon.ico" 200 5ms
[2019-09-11 10:47:43] WARN Cookie ghost-members-ssr not found
[2019-09-11 10:47:44] INFO "GET /" 200 467ms

Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module

/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /var/www/ghost/versions/2.31.0/node_modules/sharp/build/Release/../../vendor/lib/libpng16.so.16)

- Remove the "node_modules/sharp" directory, run "npm install" and look for errors
- Consult the installation documentation at https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/en/stable/install/
- Search for this error at https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues
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I think I’ve managed to fix this, by updating from nodejs 8.x to nodejs 10.x, then running ghost update --force in the /var/www/ghost folder.