[DRE-maint] Bug#977636: gitlab: Package upgrade hangs indefinitely and consumes all CPU/memory

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2020, ഡിസംബർ 18 3:19:55 AM IST, Maximilian Stein <m at steiny.biz> wrote:
>Package: gitlab
>Version: 13.4.7-2~fto10+1
>Severity: important
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>During an upgrade to version 13.4.7-1~fto10+1 or 13.4.7-2~fto10+1
>there is a rake process in the postinst script that consumes 100 % cpu
>and takes up a lot of memory but never finishes, even not after hours.
>I finally killed the process with a SIGKILL, and gitlab seems to work
>afterwards.
>
>This is the last output I get during the installation:
>
>-------------------- snip ------------------------------
>
>yarn install v1.22.4
>[1/4] Resolving packages...                            
>success Already up-to-date.                                            
>$ node ./scripts/frontend/postinstall.js                                                                                                                                                         
>success Dependency postinstall check passed.
>Done in 1.90s.                           
>WARNING on line 297, column 11 of /usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/stylesheets/framework/common.scss:
>Compound selectors may no longer be extended.
>Consider `@extend .card, .card-body` instead.
>See http://bit.ly/ExtendCompound for details.                           
>                         
>WARNING on line 208, column 13 of /usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/stylesheets/framework/filters.scss:
>Compound selectors may no longer be extended.
>Consider `@extend .form-control, :hover` instead.
>See http://bit.ly/ExtendCompound for details.                                         
>                         
>WARNING on line 31, column 13 of /usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/help.scss:
>Compound selectors may no longer be extended.
>Consider `@extend .badge, .badge-pill` instead.
>See http://bit.ly/ExtendCompound for details.
>
>WARNING on line 665, column 13 of /usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/issuable.scss:
>Compound selectors may no longer be extended.
>Consider `@extend a, :hover` instead.
>See http://bit.ly/ExtendCompound for details.
>
>WARNING on line 580, column 15 of /usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/stylesheets/pages/pipelines.scss:
>Compound selectors may no longer be extended.
>Consider `@extend .build-content, :hover` instead.
>See http://bit.ly/ExtendCompound for details.
>
>-------------------- snip ------------------------------
>
>Is there a known workaround for that issue?

One possibility is sassc, but it was affecting only unstable. See in the wiki.

Another thing I noticed, webpack takes more resources than earlier. Try adding more swap and upgrade again.

>Apparently, at least for me, a clean upgrade of gitlab is not possible
>right now.
>
>Best,
>Maximilian
>

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