Upgrading Ghost past 3.11.0

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I’m trying to upgrade from Ghost 3.11.0 to the latest. I’m running on Ubuntu 18.04 It looks like the upgrade is successful, but it hangs when trying to re-start the new version of Ghost. Here is my log, looks like maybe an issue with a node module? When I rollback the ghost version to 3.11.0 it starts again just fine. Any ideas?

Stopped Ghost systemd service for blog: www-firehole-us.
Jun 12 10:51:09 firehole systemd[1]: Started Ghost systemd service for blog: www-firehole-us.
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: - Inspecting operating system
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: /home/ljhardy/public_html/firehole.us/versions/3.19.2/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/mkdirs/make-dir.js:85
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: } catch {
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: ^
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Module._compile (module.js:617:28)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:664:10)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole node[767]: at Object. (/home/ljhardy/public_html/firehole.us/versions/3.19.2/node_modules/fs-extra/lib/mkdirs/index.js:3:44)
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole systemd[1]: ghost_www-firehole-us.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole systemd[1]: ghost_www-firehole-us.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole systemd[1]: Stopped Ghost systemd service for blog: www-firehole-us.
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole systemd[1]: ghost_www-firehole-us.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole systemd[1]: ghost_www-firehole-us.service: Failed with result ‘start-limit-hit’.
Jun 12 10:51:10 firehole systemd[1]: Failed to start Ghost systemd service for blog: www-firehole-us.

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You’re running a version of Node.js that is no longer supported. Please upgrade :)

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Thanks Hannah. I think that I’m running 12.16.1, that’s not supported?

firehole:~$ node --version
v12.16.1

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I just upgraded to node 12.18, the LTS. Tried to update Ghost to the latest, same issue with not starting and the same messages in syslog.

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This is a duplicate of Attempt to Upgrade 2 to 3 fails - #4 by jlamarche

The error Ghost is failing with is due to lack of support in Node for a language feature, meaning Ghost is running with Node < 10.

You must have 2 different Node versions on your system. Maybe symlinked as node and nodejs, maybe you’re using nvm. Check out the other thread for debugging tips.

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Hannah - That was it, thank you. I had an older version of Node in /usr/bin and the new LTS version in /usr/local/bin. This is fixed. Thanks again!