Hi,
Ubuntu 16 showed me that there was some update, so I updated it. Now whenever I am trying to start the Ghost service I get “Failed to start ghost.service: Unit ghost.service not found.”
But when I go to Ghost folder and “npm start –production” it, it works.
Any idea how to get the “sudo service ghost start” working?
I encountered the same problem after upgrading my droplet to Ubuntu 16. I solved it by adding a systemd service configuration for ghost.
I created the following file: /lib/systemd/system/ghost.service
With this content
[Unit]
Description=Ghost: Just a blogging platform
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/ghost
User=ghost
Group=ghost
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start --production
ExecStop=/usr/bin/npm stop --production
Restart=always
SyslogIdentifier=Ghost
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This is based on the following systemd script: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-Config/blob/master/systemd/ghost.service
Thanks for this. I had also just upgraded to Ubuntu 16 and can confirm that this works.
I added this file as you mentioned. But I cant start service…
● ghost.service - Ghost blog system for robertwang.tw
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/ghost.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2017-01-12 10:15:07 EST; 2s ago
Process: 2440 ExecStop=/usr/bin/npm stop –production (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Process: 2438 ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start –production (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Main PID: 2438 (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Jan 12 10:15:07 Rob-Ghost systemd[1]: ghost.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 12 10:15:07 Rob-Ghost systemd[1]: Stopped Ghost blog system for robertwang.tw.
Jan 12 10:15:07 Rob-Ghost systemd[1]: ghost.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 12 10:15:07 Rob-Ghost systemd[1]: Failed to start Ghost blog system for robertwang.tw.
Not sure what that means. Could you give me some hints?
The status code (“217/USER”) seems to indicate that the user you specified in the service declaration is not valid on your system.
Make sure the user you put in front of “User=” exists.
Can you clarify a bit. Were you using the Ghost one-click based on Ubuntu 14.04 and upgraded it to ubuntu 16.04? Did you install Ghost manually on a 16.04 droplet and if so, what steps did you follow to do so?
I think I resolved it. Something must have happened while updating the package. All I had to do was sudo dpkg –configure -a. Then it was up and running.
Just to answer your question I used Ubuntu 16.04 Ghost one-click to make the droplet (5 months ago I guess). Then I got a notification - New release ‘16.04.1 LTS’ available - So I did - do-release-upgrade - to upgrade it. Then my laptop got disconnected from Digitalocean, so I reconnected then everything was normal. Then I tried all the stuff what I told you already in the question above.