[DRE-maint] Bug#916306: gitlab: Error during gitlab installation

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2018, ഡിസംബർ 14 1:22:52 AM IST, Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani at gmail.com> wrote:
>OK. I manually copied gitlab-debian.conf from /var/lib/gitlab/ to
>/etc/gitlab/ and it was overwritten during the configure step with the
>package maintainers version. It now proceeds past the previous error
>message.
>
>Now, I am seeing a new error as follows:
>
>$ sudo dpkg --configure gitlab
>Setting up gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ...
>Creating runtime directories for gitlab...
>Updating file permissions...
>Configuring hostname and email...
>Registering /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gitlab.conf via ucf
>/etc/systemd/system/gitlab-mailroom.service.d/override.conf already
>exist
>/etc/systemd/system/gitlab-unicorn.service.d/override.conf already
>exist
>/etc/systemd/system/gitlab-sidekiq.service.d/override.conf already
>exist
>/etc/systemd/system/gitlab-workhorse.service.d/override.conf already
>exist
>Registering /etc/gitlab-shell/config.yml via ucf
>Registering /etc/gitlab/gitlab.yml via ucf
>Registering /etc/gitlab/gitlab-debian.conf via ucf
>Reloading nginx configuration...
>nginx.service is not active, cannot reload.
>invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "reload" failed.
>dpkg: error processing package gitlab (--configure):
> installed gitlab package post-installation script subprocess returned
>error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> gitlab
>
>Thanks,
>

That is a known bug which is not yet fixed. If you start nginx manually, the installation should proceed. We stop nginx for letsencrypt, but does not start it again.
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