Gitlab-CE - cannot create redis.socket File

Hello Community and Developers,

I gave up after several days of my Gitlab CE examinations, because I can not go on alone so.

I have completely reinstalled Gitlab several times, but there are problems with the “redis” and “redis.socket” files. This is not created automatically by the installation and so Gitlab shows me in the frontend under https://gitlab.apps-tools-cms.de 503 Error.

Which logs do you need to help me? Since I can read them with “gitlab-ctl tail” like.

I hope that someone can help me. Thanks in Advance.

It’s often better to guess what readers need, rather than asking, since if a question is incomplete, readers may just skip. Those are the (unwritten) rules at Stack Overflow, and to some degree they’re human nature, so they probably apply here too.

Are there logs that show this? If so, show those ones.

==> /var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails/production.log <==
Started GET "/-/metrics" for 127.0.0.1 at 2018-04-24 21:33:05 +0200

Errno::ENOENT (No such file or directory - connect(2) for /var/opt/gitlab/redis/redis.socket):
  config/initializers/rack_attack_git_basic_auth.rb:7:in `block in <top (required)>'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/read_only/controller.rb:28:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/read_only.rb:16:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/request_context.rb:18:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/metrics/requests_rack_middleware.rb:27:in `call'
  lib/gitlab/middleware/release_env.rb:10:in `call'

==> /var/log/gitlab/redis/current <==
2018-04-24_19:33:08.04668 811:M 24 Apr 21:33:08.046 * 1 changes in 900 seconds. Saving...
2018-04-24_19:33:08.04732 811:M 24 Apr 21:33:08.047 * Background saving started by pid 25201
2018-04-24_19:33:08.04747 25201:C 24 Apr 21:33:08.047 # Failed opening the RDB file dump.rdb (in server root dir unknown) for saving: No such file or directory

Sorry, that my question is not complete. Here I have managed for the first time to contact you. On your part mentioned community is all offtopic, at least it is very tricky to ask questions there. Thank you for your time.

Great stuff. OK, so a good technique is to get part of your error message, and incorporate it in a web search for “Gitlab”. Something like this:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gitlab+Failed+opening+the+RDB+file+dump.rdb

There are evidently some good matches there - any of them any good?