Hi, I just upgraded to Gitlab CE 18.6.0, and suddenly all our CI jobs are failing with the error as in subject. The runner is able to pick up the jobs, but is unable to pull down the repositories from the gitlab server, showing “fatal: could not read Username for [local gitlab HTTPS url]: terminal …

Fatal: could not read Username for [gitlab]: terminal prompts disabled

halfgaar November 21, 2025, 10:13am 5

Downgrading the runner on the builder is enough.

apt install gitlab-runner=18.5.0-1 gitlab-runner-helper-images=18.5.0-1

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