gitlab-ctl reconfigure failed with permission denied at /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database.yml
I recently updated the gitlab community edition to 11.1.2-ce.0 running into an error when calling: gitlab-ctl reconfigure
AS a consequence, I also can not upgrade gitlab to the latest version.
It seems to be some permission error, which I can not resolve. See the log below.
I tried to change the acces to the file /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database.yml manually to readable and executable to the gitlab (I've changed default gitlab user from git to gitlab) user, which is changed back by the reconfiguration step.
The problem is, that the reconfiguration step of gitlab-ctl automatically changes the user to root and permission back to 640.
Relevant Log
gitlab-ctl reconfigure output
> Recipe: gitlab::database_migrations > * bash[migrate gitlab-rails database] action run > [execute] rake aborted! > Errno::EACCES: Cannot load `Rails.application.database_configuration`: > Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database.yml > /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/environment.rb:11:in `' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `load' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `' > > Caused by: > Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database.yml > /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/environment.rb:11:in `' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `load' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `' > Tasks: TOP => gitlab:db:configure => environment > (See full trace by running task with --trace) > > ================================================================================ > Error executing action `run` on resource 'bash[migrate gitlab-rails database]' > ================================================================================ > > Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed > ------------------------------------ > Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1' > ---- Begin output of "bash" "/tmp/chef-script20180802-19164-462i34" ---- > STDOUT: rake aborted! > Errno::EACCES: Cannot load `Rails.application.database_configuration`: > Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database.yml > /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/environment.rb:11:in `' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `load' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `' > > Caused by: > Errno::EACCES: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database.yml > /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/environment.rb:11:in `' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `load' > /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/bundle:23:in `' > Tasks: TOP => gitlab:db:configure => environment > (See full trace by running task with --trace)
Details of package version
gitlab-ce 11.1.2-ce.0 amd64 GitLab Community Edition (including NGINX, Postgres, Redis)
Environment details
- Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Configuration details
Relevant sections of `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`
user['username'] = "gitlab"
gitlab_rails['gitlab_username_changing_enabled'] = false
gitlab_rails['lfs_enabled'] = true
gitlab_rails['backup_path'] = "/home/gitlab/backups"
git_data_dirs({ "default" => { "path" => "/home/gitlab/git-data" } })
web_server['external_users'] = ['www-data']
nginx['enable'] = false
Edited by Alexis Duque