ghost-cli fails at checking node version

Summary

I’m using Ghost in Github Pages with this tutorial, everything is going fine until a few days ago when I wanted to update the Ghost version ( to Ghost 2, but first needed to be in latest v1 )

Steps to Reproduce

1. ghost update --v1

Log file

The ghost update --v1 output

Found a development config but not a production config, running in development mode instead
✖ Checking system Node.js version
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
✔ Checking memory availability
One or more errors occurred.

1) SystemError

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

Debug Information:
    OS: linux, v4.18.3-arch1-1-ARCH
    Node Version: v8.9.4
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.9.1
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost update --v1'

Try running ghost doctor to check your system for known issues.

If I run ghost doctor -V

Found a development config but not a production config, running in development mode instead
[15:23:33] Checking system Node.js version [started]
[15:23:33] Checking system Node.js version [failed]
[15:23:33] → The path /home/alexarch/ is not readable by other users on the system.
This can cause issues with the CLI, please either make this directory readable by others or install node and Ghost-CLI in another location.
[15:23:33] Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user [started]
[15:23:33] Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user [skipped]
[15:23:33] Checking if logged in user is directory owner [started]
[15:23:33] Checking if logged in user is directory owner [skipped]
[15:23:33] Checking current folder permissions [started]
[15:23:33] Checking current folder permissions [completed]
[15:23:33] Validating config [started]
[15:23:33] Validating config [completed]
[15:23:33] Checking memory availability [started]
[15:23:33] Checking memory availability [completed]
One or more errors occurred.

1) SystemError

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

Debug Information:
    OS: linux, v4.18.3-arch1-1-ARCH
    Node Version: v8.9.4
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.9.1
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost doctor -V'

I can run ghost with ghost run and write and publish without problems with that node version

Technical details

This is automatically output by Ghost-CLI if an error occurs, please copy & paste:

OS: linux, v4.18.3-arch1-1-ARCH
Node Version: v8.9.4
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.9.1
Environment: development

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[vikaspotluri123]

@jeremychevallier that definitely seems like a problem! However, this seems to be more of an issue with with nvm rather than the CLI, so you’re more likely to get a helpful response over on the forum 😄

[acburdine]

@AlexDaciuk took me a minute to figure out what was going on, but I see what the issue is here, and it’s one that I’m working on getting figured out 😄

In the meantime, if you run ghost update --v1 --no-setup-linux-user it should work. It’s definitely a bug though.