Hi all, I’m currently running n8n on Render using the Docker image URL to use the Web Service.
I’ve been chatting with Gemini and GPT-5 Thinking about how to fix this, but nothing seems to be working and the deployment keeps failing.
When I try various versions of the Docker image URL and even set it from “lateest” to past versions, but deployment continues to fail.
I’ve tried adding the “N8N_ENFORCE_SETTINGS_FILE_PERMISSIONS” environment variable and at one point, added “N8N_USER_FOLDER=/home/node/.n8n” which finally pushed the update, but completely wiped out my n8n workflows.
The error logs keep showing this:
“Permissions 0660 for n8n settings file /home/node/.n8n/config are too wide. Changing permissions to 0600..
Aug 19 07:40:46 PM
6tfh5
Error: Command “start” not found
Aug 19 07:40:47 PM
==> Exited with status 1
Aug 19 07:40:47 PM
==> Common ways to troubleshoot your deploy: https://render.com/docs/troubleshooting-deploys
Aug 19 07:41:40 PM
gg56s
Permissions 0660 for n8n settings file /home/node/.n8n/config are too wide. This is ignored for now, but in the future n8n will attempt to change the permissions automatically. To automatically enforce correct permissions now set N8N_ENFORCE_SETTINGS_FILE_PERMISSIONS=true (recommended), or turn this check off set N8N_ENFORCE_SETTINGS_FILE_PERMISSIONS=false.
Aug 19 07:41:40 PM
gg56s
User settings loaded from: /home/node/.n8n/config
Aug 19 07:41:47 PM
gg56s
Initializing n8n process
Aug 19 07:41:47 PM
gg56s
Error tracking disabled because this release is older than 6 weeks.”
But I’m not sure what else to do because the Docker command field is empty and that’s supposed to be as it is.
All I’m trying to do is update it to the critical update that was recently released, but nothing seems to be working whenever I chat with an LLM about this, so I’m here asking for any advice and help on what to do in order to update it.
It’s stopping me from being able to backup my workflows into a Github repo because deployment fails, so any help is appreciated! Please let me know if there’s more information I can provide to get some help.
Cheers.