Non-ASCII characters (like German Umlauts) in gitlab.rb makes V 16 unusuable
After upgrading my Omnibus self-hosted installation to V 16.0.0 and even to 16.0.1 GitLab is not usable anymore.
The CPU goes up and nothing is reachable anymore.
For details, see:
The solution was to remove the German Umlaut ("ü") from gitlab.rb:
In my case it was a German Umlaut in the bind_dn "connection string" that configures the LDAP connection to our Active Directory server.
This worked well since several years.
Edited by Uwe Keim