Fresh install - no tables are created except migrations and migrations_lock

Issue Summary

After doing a fresh install of Ghost on Ubuntu 18.04 - no tables are created except migrations and migrations_lock. Ghost fails to start with an error about the migration lock.

To Reproduce

1. Follow the official manual to install Ghost on Ubuntu
2. Ghost fails to start with a message:

Migration lock was never released or currently, a migration is running.
If you are sure no migration is running, check your data and if your database is in a broken state, you could run `knex-migrator rollback`.

1. Try executing knex-migrator rollback. It fails with the message:

NAME: InternalServerError
MESSAGE: Please provide a file named MigratorConfig.js in your project root.

1. Connect to MySQL and check the database. Ensure that your ghost database (ghost_prod in my case) is in place. Check the tables in the DB:

mysql> use ghost_prod; show tables;
+----------------------+
| Tables_in_ghost_prod |
+----------------------+
| migrations           |
| migrations_lock      |
+----------------------+

1. Remove all items from migrations_lock

mysql> delete from migrations_lock;

1. Try running ghost setup migrate. There is no output or errors.
2. Try running ghost start. See the same error from step 2

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: 2.23.0
• Ghost CLI Version: 1.10.0
• Node Version: 8.10.0
• Browser/OS: Ubuntu 18.04
• Database: MySQL 5.7.22

[acburdine]

@sintezcs @joshuajbouw thanks for the log outputs! I think I know where the issue is now, though not why it’s occurring necessarily. Need to debug this a bit more, but will work on getting this fixed as quick as I can 😄

[sintezcs]

I’ve just figured out the issue. I created a new Ubuntu user named “ghost” in the first step… 🤦‍♂ After I removed it and used “ghostuser” instead, everything worked smoothly.