GitLab EE not more possible to Update after enable ESM

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Hi @Joulindo, welcome to the GitLab Community forum!

As others have noted, GitLab stopped building and releasing new packages for Ubuntu 16.04 prior to the 14.x release.

Here are your upgrade options:

Upgrade Options

Option A: Migrate GitLab from Ubuntu 16.04 server new Ubuntu 18/20.04 server

  1. Backup GitLab on 16.04 server
  2. Spin up new Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 server on seperate box
  3. Install GitLab on 18/20.04 box using same GitLab version installed on Ubuntu 16.04 box
  4. Copy backup to new 18/20.04 server
  5. Restore backup on new 18/20.04 server

Option B: In-place OS upgrade

  1. Upgrade to the latest version of available packages. OS upgrade will fail unless you’re running the latest version of 16.04 packages. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
  2. Initiate OS upgrade: sudo do-release-upgrade (ensure you’ll be available and attentive, this process will require user interaction and shouldn’t be stopped once it’s started)
  3. Follow prompts, select to not change configuration if in doubt.
  4. Reboot
  5. Add GitLab package repository for your new OS version
curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ee/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
  1. sudo apt update

(good additional resource: How To Upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver | DigitalOcean)

If you encounter any problems, there are some troubleshooting steps here.

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