tl;dr The logs lead me to realise gitaly was having issues. This serves up the repositories to the rest of the gitlab installation. The only bits of gitaly running were this: ├─3670 runsv gitaly ├─3691 /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/gitaly-wrapper /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/gitaly /var/opt/gitlab/gitaly/config.toml └─9405 svlogd -tt /var/log/gitlab/gitaly These were failing to stop via gitlab-ctl stop It should have a gitaly […]
What’s the problem? Most of the useful bits of this post are, I imagine, relevant to Rakefiles and Gemfiles in general, not just GitLab CI. In another post about GitLab CI, I noted that .gitlab-ci.yml can be moved from the repository root. Great. Keep Rootian Tidy. For what I want to do, there’s at least […]
intro Before trying to use GitLab runner (shell) in anger, I wanted to peek under the hood – it’ll make things easier later. I’ll stash more information here if it looks useful. Docs: built in docs at gitlab.example.com/help/ci/quick_start/README https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ One of a number of posts on GitLab CI, see the gitlab-runner tag. .gitlab-ci.yml This is […]
Introduction One of a number of posts on GitLab CI, see the gitlab-runner tag. Initial goal is to add syntax checking, validation, etc., to my puppet control-repo. It took me a little while to piece it together, and these are my notes. The starting page for official docs is https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ but there’s pockets in other […]
The Pi has a hardware random number generator. Source. Hat tip. This is running Centos 7. It presents as /dev/hwrng. yum install rng-tools systemctl enable rngd systemctl start rngd # rngd -l Entropy sources that are available but disabled 1: TPM RNG Device 4: NIST Network Entropy Beacon Oh. It’s running as a daemon on […]
Part 1 – running tftp server non root (xinetd) Part 2 – the tftp client requires firewalld changes as well Part 3 – replacing xinetd with systemd (this blog post) Oooh, nice one systemd. During my investigation in Part 1, I tried to eliminate xinetd as the reason for the misbehaviour. I started up the […]
Part 1 – running tftp server non root (xinetd) Part 2 – the tftp client requires firewalld changes as well (this blog post) Part 3 – replacing xinetd with systemd firewalld change on TFTP clients The rest of this blog post will elaborate on what happens if you don’t do this. The quick bit […]
