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Changing gitlab-ci-multi-runner home directory not reflected in gl-ci-m-r configuration

Summary

  • Create a runner -- in this case I used the shell executor, assigned to a single project
  • Runner working correctly, communicating with CI server and executing builds
  • As root, change the home directory of the runner:
usermod -m -d /new_home/gitlab_ci_multi_runner gitlab_ci_multi_runner
  • Runner now unable to communicate to CI server, following message from /var/log/syslog 
Aug 19 14:26:00 staging systemd[1]: gitlab-runner.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 19 14:26:00 staging systemd[1]: Started GitLab Runner.
Aug 19 14:26:00 staging systemd[1]: Starting GitLab Runner...
Aug 19 14:26:01 staging gitlab-runner[3710]: 0 Starting multi-runner from /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml ...
Aug 19 14:26:01 staging gitlab-ci-multi-runner[3710]: time="2015-08-19T14:26:01+01:00" level=info msg="0 Starting multi-runner from /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml ..."
Aug 19 14:26:01 staging gitlab-runner[3710]: chdir /home/gitlab_ci_multi_runner: no such file or directory
Aug 19 14:26:01 staging gitlab-ci-multi-runner[3710]: time="2015-08-19T14:26:01+01:00" level=error msg="chdir /home/gitlab_ci_multi_runner: no such file or directory"

System info:

  • Ubuntu server 15.04, running under VirtualBox, Linux host
  • GitLab and CI server running on a separate virtual machine
  • gl-ci-m-r 0.5.2
  • GL / CI 7.12.0 baa699a

I can't see anywhere in either /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml or ~gitlab-ci-multi-runner/config.toml where this configuration is picked up. Would it be possible to use the $HOME environment variable for the gl-ci-m-r user?