ghost start does not work after fresh install

[pbnsilva]

Summary

After a local install and ghost stop, doing ghost start does not work with output:

Found a development config but not a production config, running in development
mode instead
✖ Checking system Node.js version - found v14.17.0
ℹ Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user [skipped]
ℹ Checking if logged in user is directory owner [skipped]
✔ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Validating config
✔ Checking memory availability
✔ Checking binary dependencies
One or more errors occurred.

1) SystemError

Message: The directory /home/p/ is not readable by other users on the system.
This can cause issues with the CLI, you must either make this directory readable by others or install node and Ghost-CLI in another location.

Debug Information:
    OS: Arch Linux, vunknown
    Node Version: v14.17.0
    Ghost Version: 4.10.2
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.17.3
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost start'

Steps to Reproduce

1. mkdir my-site && cd my-site
2. ghost install local
3. ghost stop
4. ghost start

Log file

Error log is empty. ghost log returns:

[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Creating table: tokens
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Creating table: snippets
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Model: Product
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Model: Tag
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Model: Role
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Model: Permission
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Model: User
[2021-07-30 07:19:36] INFO Model: Post
[2021-07-30 07:19:37] INFO Model: Integration
[2021-07-30 07:19:37] INFO Relation: Role to Permission
[2021-07-30 07:19:37] INFO Relation: Post to Tag
[2021-07-30 07:19:37] INFO Relation: User to Role
[2021-07-30 07:19:37] INFO Database is in a ready state.
[2021-07-30 07:19:37] INFO Ghost database ready in 3.077s
[2021-07-30 07:19:39] INFO Ghost booted in 5.187s
[2021-07-30 07:19:39] INFO Adding offloaded job to the queue
[2021-07-30 07:19:39] INFO Scheduling job update-check at 10 41 16 * * *. Next
run on: Fri Jul 30 2021 16:41:10 GMT+0100 (Western European Summer Time)
[2021-07-30 07:19:48] WARN Ghost is shutting down
[2021-07-30 07:19:48] WARN Ghost has shut down
[2021-07-30 07:19:48] WARN Ghost was running for a few seconds

Technical details

• OS: Arch Linux
• Node Version: v14.17.0
• Ghost-CLI Version: 4.10.2
• Environment: development
• Command: 'ghost start'

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[acburdine]

@pbnsilva can you post the rest of the output? there should be more logs there.

[pbnsilva]

@acburdine my bad, I've updated the original post with the full output after ghost start, and the output of ghost log.

[pbnsilva]

Found the same issue here, with a temporary solution: #711

Closing.

[acburdine]

@pbnsilva sorry meant to reply again to this yesterday, this is a known issue that does have that --no-setup-linux-user workaround 😄 we'll get the underlying issue fixed as quick as we can though