First run of gitlab cookbook fails with git error.

[briandoodyie]

I'm overriding the git config file to redirect git protocol requests to use https as this protocol is disabled on our machines.

Error i'm seeing is "STDERR: error: You have local changes to 'doc/workflow/importing/README.md'; cannot switch branches."

Running the cookbook a second time succeeds though.

[atomic-penguin]

This is odd, is it a new install, or an upgrade? If an upgrade, it could be the git tree has local modifications that were not checked in. I don't know of anything in the cookbook that modifies the doc tree, however.

[briandoodyie]

Yes this is a new install. I've ran it a few times on differen vms and its always the same message. Running it a second time works though which doesnt make huge sense to me.

[epcim]

hi, I got the similar (on centos6 image), first run in CI env.:

  --- /srv/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml  2015-06-16 08:15:36.417000019 +0000
           +++ /tmp/chef-rendered-template20150616-8718-uejf10  2015-06-16 08:15:36.416000020 +0000
           @@ -1 +1,41 @@
           +# GitLab user. git by default


           +# Url to gitlab instance. Used for api calls. Should end with a slash.


           +http_settings:
           +#  user: someone

           +#  ca_file: /etc/ssl/cert.pem




           +# Repositories path
           +# REPOS_PATH MUST NOT BE A SYMLINK!!!
           +repos_path: /srv/git/repositories
           +
           +# File used as authorized_keys for gitlab user
           +auth_file: /srv/git/.ssh/authorized_keys
           +
           +# Redis settings used for pushing commit notices to gitlab
           +redis:
           +  bin: /usr/local/bin/redis-cli
           +  host: 127.0.0.1
           +  port: 6379
           +  # socket: /tmp/redis.socket # Only define this if you want to use sockets

       +
           +# Log file.
           +# Default is gitlab-shell.log in the root directory.
           +# log_file: "/home/git/gitlab-shell/gitlab-shell.log"
           +
           +# Log level. INFO by default
           +log_level: INFO
           +
           +# Audit usernames.
           +# Set to true to see real usernames in the logs instead of key ids, which is easier to follow, but
           +# incurs an extra API call on every gitlab-shell command.

           - change mode from '' to '0644'
           - change owner from '' to 'git'
           - change group from '' to 'git'


       - clone from git://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git into /srv/git/gitlab
           ================================================================================
           Error executing action `checkout` on resource 'git[/srv/git/gitlab]'
           ================================================================================

           Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
           ------------------------------------
           Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
           ---- Begin output of git checkout deploy ----
           STDOUT: 
           STDERR: error: You have local changes to 'doc/api/groups.md'; cannot switch branches.
           ---- End output of git checkout deploy ----
           Ran git checkout deploy returned 1

           Resource Declaration:
           ---------------------
           # In /tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/default.rb

           159: git node['gitlab']['app_home'] do
           160:   repository node['gitlab']['git_url']
           161:   reference node['gitlab']['git_branch']
           162:   action :checkout
           163:   user node['gitlab']['user']
       164:   group node['gitlab']['group']
           165: end
           166: 

           Compiled Resource:
           ------------------
           # Declared in /tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/default.rb:159:in `from_file'

           git("/srv/git/gitlab") do
             action [:checkout]
             retries 0
             retry_delay 2
             default_guard_interpreter :default
             destination "/srv/git/gitlab"
         enable_checkout true
         revision "7-7-stable"
             remote "origin"
             checkout_branch "deploy"
             declared_type :git
             cookbook_name "gitlab"
             recipe_name "default"
             repository "git://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git"
             user "git"
             group "git"
           end

       Recipe: openssh::default
         * service[ssh] action restart
           - restart service service[ssh]

       Running handlers:
       [2015-06-16T08:18:31+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
       Running handlers complete
       [2015-06-16T08:18:31+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
       [2015-06-16T08:18:31+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/kitchen/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
       Chef Client failed. 131 resources updated in 1847.104861494 seconds
       [2015-06-16T08:18:32+00:00] ERROR: git[/srv/git/gitlab] (gitlab::default line 159) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
       ---- Begin output of git checkout deploy ----
       STDOUT: 
       STDERR: error: You have local changes to 'doc/api/groups.md'; cannot switch branches.
       ---- End output of git checkout deploy ----
       Ran git checkout deploy returned 1
       [2015-06-16T08:18:34+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
>>>>>> Converge failed on instance <default-centos-6>.
>>>>>> Please see .kitchen/logs/default-centos-6.log for more details
>>>>>> ------Exception-------
>>>>>> Class: Kitchen::ActionFailed
>>>>>> Message: SSH exited (1) for command: [sh -c '

sudo -E /opt/chef/bin/chef-client --local-mode --config /tmp/kitchen/client.rb --log_level auto --force-formatter --no-color --json-attributes /tmp/kitchen/dna.json --chef-zero-port 8889
']
>>>>>> ----------------------
$ KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML=.kitchen.cloud.yml chef exec kitchen destroy
-----> Starting Kitchen (v1.4.0)
-----> Destroying <default-centos-6>...
       OpenStack instance <8a2bb4e2-f9cf-4902-aa87-96ac239c9142> destroyed.
       Finished destroying <default-centos-6> (0m2.50s).
-----> Destroying <default-ubuntu-1404>...
       Finished destroying <default-ubuntu-1404> (0m0.00s).
-----> Kitchen is finished. (0m7.41s)
$ test -n $E && exit $E

[chewi]

I've seen this on a new kitchen run with CentOS 6.5. It complained about groups.md.

[chewi]

I don't know why but this doesn't seem to happen with more recent GitLab versions.

[gilhauer]

I'm seeing the exact same problem; building a vagrant box with CentOS 6.5.

Is there any resolution to this?

[briandoodyie]

If you run chef-client a second time, I found that it does work but that's not a great workaround.