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Maintenance Rake tasks (CORE ONLY)
GitLab provides Rake tasks for general maintenance.
Gather GitLab and system information
This command gathers information about your GitLab installation and the system it runs on. These may be useful when asking for help or reporting issues.
Omnibus Installation
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info
Source Installation
bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production
Example output:
System information
System: Debian 7.8
Current User: git
Using RVM: no
Ruby Version: 2.1.5p273
Gem Version: 2.4.3
Bundler Version: 1.7.6
Rake Version: 10.3.2
Redis Version: 3.2.5
Sidekiq Version: 2.17.8
GitLab information
Version: 7.7.1
Revision: 41ab9e1
Directory: /home/git/gitlab
DB Adapter: postgresql
URL: https://gitlab.example.com
HTTP Clone URL: https://gitlab.example.com/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL: git@gitlab.example.com:some-project.git
Using LDAP: no
Using Omniauth: no
GitLab Shell
Version: 2.4.1
Repositories: /home/git/repositories/
Hooks: /home/git/gitlab-shell/hooks/
Git: /usr/bin/git
Check GitLab configuration
The gitlab:check Rake task runs the following Rake tasks:
gitlab:gitlab_shell:checkgitlab:gitaly:checkgitlab:sidekiq:checkgitlab:app:check
It will check that each component was set up according to the installation guide and suggest fixes for issues found. This command must be run from your application server and will not work correctly on component servers like Gitaly.
You may also have a look at our troubleshooting guides for:
To run gitlab:check, run:
Omnibus Installation
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check
Source Installation
bundle exec rake gitlab:check RAILS_ENV=production
NOTE: Note:
Use SANITIZE=true for gitlab:check if you want to omit project names from the output.
Example output:
Checking Environment ...
Git configured for git user? ... yes
Has python2? ... yes
python2 is supported version? ... yes
Checking Environment ... Finished
Checking GitLab Shell ...
GitLab Shell version? ... OK (1.2.0)
Repo base directory exists? ... yes
Repo base directory is a symlink? ... no
Repo base owned by git:git? ... yes
Repo base access is drwxrws---? ... yes
post-receive hook up-to-date? ... yes
post-receive hooks in repos are links: ... yes
Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished
Checking Sidekiq ...
Running? ... yes
Checking Sidekiq ... Finished
Checking GitLab ...
Database config exists? ... yes
Database is SQLite ... no
All migrations up? ... yes
GitLab config exists? ... yes
GitLab config outdated? ... no
Log directory writable? ... yes
Tmp directory writable? ... yes
Init script exists? ... yes
Init script up-to-date? ... yes
Redis version >= 2.0.0? ... yes
Checking GitLab ... Finished
Rebuild authorized_keys file
In some case it is necessary to rebuild the authorized_keys file. To do this, run:
Omnibus Installation
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:shell:setup
Source Installation
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:shell:setup RAILS_ENV=production
Example output:
This will rebuild an authorized_keys file.
You will lose any data stored in authorized_keys file.
Do you want to continue (yes/no)? yes
Clear Redis cache
If for some reason the dashboard displays the wrong information, you might want to clear Redis' cache. To do this, run:
Omnibus Installation
sudo gitlab-rake cache:clear
Source Installation
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake cache:clear RAILS_ENV=production
Precompile the assets
Sometimes during version upgrades you might end up with some wrong CSS or missing some icons. In that case, try to precompile the assets again.
This only applies to source installations and does NOT apply to Omnibus packages.
Source Installation
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:assets:compile RAILS_ENV=production
For omnibus versions, the unoptimized assets (JavaScript, CSS) are frozen at
the release of upstream GitLab. The omnibus version includes optimized versions
of those assets. Unless you are modifying the JavaScript / CSS code on your
production machine after installing the package, there should be no reason to redo
rake gitlab:assets:compile on the production machine. If you suspect that assets
have been corrupted, you should reinstall the omnibus package.
Check TCP connectivity to a remote site
Sometimes you need to know if your GitLab installation can connect to a TCP service on another machine - perhaps a PostgreSQL or HTTPS server. A Rake task is included to help you with this:
Omnibus Installation
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:tcp_check[example.com,80]
Source Installation
cd /home/git/gitlab
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:tcp_check[example.com,80] RAILS_ENV=production
Clear exclusive lease (DANGER)
GitLab uses a shared lock mechanism: ExclusiveLease to prevent simultaneous operations
in a shared resource. An example is running periodic garbage collection on repositories.
In very specific situations, a operation locked by an Exclusive Lease can fail without releasing the lock. If you can't wait for it to expire, you can run this task to manually clear it.
To clear all exclusive leases:
DANGER: DANGER: Don't run it while GitLab or Sidekiq is running
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:exclusive_lease:clear
To specify a lease type or lease type + id, specify a scope:
# to clear all leases for repository garbage collection:
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:exclusive_lease:clear[project_housekeeping:*]
# to clear a lease for repository garbage collection in a specific project: (id=4)
sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:exclusive_lease:clear[project_housekeeping:4]
Display status of database migrations
See the upgrade documentation for how to check that migrations are complete when upgrading GitLab.
To check the status of specific migrations, you can use the following Rake task:
sudo gitlab-rake db:migrate:status
This will output a table with a Status of up or down for
each Migration ID.
database: gitlabhq_production
Status Migration ID Migration Name
--------------------------------------------------
up migration_id migration_name
Run incomplete database migrations
Database migrations can be stuck in an incomplete state. That is, they'll have a down
status in the output of the sudo gitlab-rake db:migrate:status command.
To complete these migrations, use the following Rake task:
sudo gitlab-rake db:migrate
After the command completes, run sudo gitlab-rake db:migrate:status to check if all
migrations are completed (have an up status).
Import common metrics
Sometimes you may need to re-import the common metrics that power the Metrics dashboards.
This could be as a result of updating existing metrics, or as a troubleshooting measure.
To re-import the metrics you can run:
sudo gitlab-rake metrics:setup_common_metrics