Cannot Upgrade from current version gitlab-ee_12.0.0-ee.0 to gitlab-ee_12.5.3-ee.0

chef_version=13.6.4 platform=ubuntu platform_version=18.04 ruby=ruby 2.6.3p62

  1. Received the update asap message on our gitlab web interface running GitLab 12.0.0-ee (3b13818e)
  2. Ran sudo apt-get upgrade and it errors out with " Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-ee_12.5.3-ee.0_amd64.deb ... Malformed configuration JSON file found at /opt/gitlab/embedded/nodes/GitLab.json. This usually happens when your last run of gitlab-ctl reconfigure didn't complete successfully. This file is used to check if any of the unsupported configurations are enabled, and hence require a working reconfigure before upgrading. Please run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure to fix it and try again. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gitlab-ee_12.5.3-ee.0_amd64.deb (--unpack): new gitlab-ee package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 "
  3. the 'Malformed configuration JSON file' mentione above only reads:

{ "name": "GitLab" }

  1. Running sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure I get the attached result (file attached).

gitlab_reconfigure_message.txt

Any ideas would be very welcome. It seems like something it royally messed up and many tables may be missing.

Total newbie and puzzled.

Thank-you!