ERROR: Database version is not recognized on ubuntu14

I followed this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-blog-with-ghost-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04

when i tried to run “npm start --production”, i got following error:

test@ubuntu-test-purpose:/home/project/jackieouyang$ sudo npm start --production

> ghost@0.10.1 start /home/project/jackieouyang
> node index

WARNING: Ghost is attempting to use a direct method to send email.
It is recommended that you explicitly configure an email service.
Help and documentation can be found at http://support.ghost.org/mail.


ERROR: Database version is not recognized

 Error
    at Error.DatabaseVersion (/home/project/jackieouyang/core/server/errors/database-version.js:3:18)
    at /home/project/jackieouyang/core/server/data/schema/versioning.js:35:47
    at tryCatcher (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:26:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:510:31)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:584:18)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:700:14)
    at Async._drainQueue (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:123:16)
    at Async._drainQueues (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:133:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/home/project/jackieouyang/node_modules/knex/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:15:14)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:383:17)

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: download today
• Node Version:4.2.6
• Browser/OS: ubuntu 14
• Database: Sqlite version 2.8.17

[Richie765]

I’m running the docker 0.11.3 image and I had the same problem.

I was following: https://www.ghostforbeginners.com/migrating-ghost-installation-from-sqlite3-to-mysql/

First I got:

ERROR: Unable to populate database: alter table `posts_tags` add constraint `posts_tags_post_id_foreign` foreign key (`post_id`) references `posts` (`id`) - ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERROR: REFERENCES command denied to user 'ghost'@'172.19.0.15' for table 'posts'

After restart of the container I got the same error as above.

I fixed it by granting REFERENCES to the user. It wasn’t in the above guide. Perhaps it should be updated.

[fullsolucoes]

If I delete de ghost.db and restart ghost, the system recreate the database corretly.

Logs:

[ { sql: 'select * from sqlite_master where type = \'table\' and name = ?', output: [Function: output], bindings: [ 'settings' ] } ] Migrations: Creating tables... Migrations: Creating table: posts [ { sql: 'create table if not exists "posts" ("id" integer not null primary key autoincrement, "uuid" varchar(36) not null, "title" varchar(150) not null, "slug" varchar(150) not null, "markdown" text null, "mobiledoc" text null, "html" text null, "image" text null, "featured" boolean not null default \'0\', "page" boolean not null default \'0\', "status" varchar(150) not null default \'draft\', "language" varchar(6) not null default \'en_US\', "visibility" varchar(150) not null default \'public\', "meta_title" varchar(150) null, "meta_description" varchar(200) null, "author_id" integer not null, "created_at" datetime not null, "created_by" integer not null, "updated_at" datetime null, "updated_by" integer null, "published_at" datetime null, "published_by" integer null)', bindings: [] }, { sql: 'create unique index posts_slug_unique on "posts" ("slug")', bindings: [] } ] Migrations: Creating table: users [ { sql: 'create table if not exists "users" ("id" integer not null primary key autoincrement, "uuid" varchar(36) not null, "name" varchar(150) not null, "slug" varchar(150) not null, "password" varchar(60) not null, "email" varchar(254) not null, "image" text null, "cover" text null, "bio" varchar(200) null, "website" text null, "location" text null, "facebook" text null, "twitter" text null, "accessibility" text null, "status" varchar(150) not null default \'active\', "language" varchar(6) not null default \'en_US\', "visibility" varchar(150) not null default \'public\', "meta_title" varchar(150) null, "meta_description" varchar(200) null, "tour" text null, "last_login" datetime null, "created_at" datetime not null, "created_by" integer not null, "updated_at" datetime null, "updated_by" integer null)', bindings: [] }, { sql: 'create unique index users_slug_unique on "users" ("slug")', bindings: [] }, { sql: 'create unique index users_email_unique on "users" ("email")', bindings: [] } ] Migrations: Creating table: roles [ { sql: 'create table if not exists "roles" ("id" integer not null primary key autoincrement, "uuid" varchar(36) not null, "name" varchar(150) not null, "description" varchar(200) null, "created_at" datetime not null, "created_by" integer not null, "updated_at" datetime null, "updated_by" integer null)', bindings: [] } ] Migrations: Creating table: roles_users [ { sql: 'create table if not exists "roles_users" ("id" integer not null primary key autoincrement, "role_id" integer not null, "user_id" integer not null)', bindings: [] } ] Migrations: Creating table: permissions [ { sql: 'create table if not exists "permissions" ("id" integer not null primary key autoincrement, "uuid" varchar(36) not null, "name" varchar(150) not null, "object_type" varchar(150) not null, "action_type" varchar(150) not null, "object_id" integer null, "created_at" datetime not null, "created_by" integer not null, "updated_at" datetime null, "updated_by" integer null)', bindings: [] } ]

And if I stop and drop the image and recreate preserving the old ghost.db even upgrading the version all works fine.

The problem is in the firts run of ghost install