Error in Gitlab: git configured for git user … no try fixing it

Question

Until today evening everything was working fine. I don't how server goes down, some one would have turned off but after I restart server and lxc container where gitlab is used to run, I tried to access gitlab by the server IP:192.168.2.9(container IP) in browser I get response as Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to 192.168.2.9. I check in server as service gitlab status it shows gitlab is up and running.

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

Git configured for git user? ... no 
Try fixing it: 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab" 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitbum@xxxx.xx"
For more information see: doc/install/installation.md in section "GitLab" 
Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.

Then I checked doc/install/installation.md file I find these two line

sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab" 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitlab@localhost"

then I changed it to

sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "git" 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitbum@xxxx.xx"

and checked config/gitlab.yml there the email_from already set as gitbum@xxxx.xx and default user as git. run again same line and get same error again

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

Git configured for git user? ... no 
Try fixing it: 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab" 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitbum@xxxx.xx"
For more information see: doc/install/installation.md in section "GitLab" 
Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.

Then I did sudo su -git and did git config --list

user.name=GitLab user.email=gitlab@localhost core.autcrlf = input

I tried to find any occurrence of gitlab@localhost inside home/git/gitlab, I don't find andy occurrence of gitlab@localhost except some logs fine and gitlab.yml.example.

I tried to find any occurrence of gitlab@localhost inside home/git/ here I found gitlab@localhost in /home/git/.gitconfig. In .gitconfig I see

[user] name = GitLab email = gitlab@localhost [core] autocrlg = input

and changed to

[user] name = git email = gitbum@xxxx.xx [core] autocrlg = input

Now when I run git config --list

user.name=git user.email=gitbum@xxxx.xx core.autcrlf = input

but when I run

sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

I get same error again

Git configured for git user? ... no 
Try fixing it: 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.name "GitLab" 
sudo -u git -H git config --global user.email "gitbum@xxxx.xx"
For more information see: doc/install/installation.md in section "GitLab" 
Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.

I checked every time with restart the gitlab again and again. I have now I idea whats happen suddenly. What I did when I start the server was started the git container from LXC Web panel. Any help?

UPATE

I found the occurrence of user.name GitLab in howe/git/gitlab/lib/tasks/gitlab/check.rake file and chanded GitLab to git. now when I run sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

I see the result is

Git configured for git user? ... yes

but still I don't get gitlab up when I try to access from browser. what would be the problem?

Answer 1

the email address you set for email field in .gitconfig needs to match the email_from: value in config/gitlab.yml

Answer 2

I had the same error occurring in my setup, and the answers provided here pointed me in the right direction. The email address of the default git user should be set to the same value as your gitlab_email_from field. In my case, the gitlab_email_from field was a different value from what they use as the default. So, in my gitlab.rb file, I have the following lines:

# Set the email address for the default git user
user['git_user_email'] = 'email@address.com'

{...}

# Specify the address from which to send email
gitlab_rails['gitlab_email_from'] = 'email@address.com'

After making this change, doing a gitlab-ctl reconfigure fixed the issue.

Answer 3

Not a direct answer to your question, but I was having a similar problem and was able to fix it by checking this Thread. To sum up the important parts :

Make sure the values in /var/opt/gitlab/.gitconfig match the ones in gitlab.yml

Answer 4

According to this discussion, the fix is to use the same e-mail address in your git command as in your /home/git/gitlab/config/gitlab.yml file.

Hope this helps!