Sidekiq not running

I have been running GitLab v14.6.0-ee on my odroid C4 for some time now, suddenly I can’t clone or fetch anything. Web interface works as expected though.

After running sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:check I get the following error:

Sidekiq: ... Running? ... no
Try fixing it:
sudo -u git -H RAILS_ENV=production bin/background_jobs start
For more information see:
doc/install/installation.md in section "Install Init Script"
see log/sidekiq.log for possible errors
Please fix the error above and rerun the checks.

Where is bin/background_jobs located, though? I understand it is this script.
I’ve looked in /etc/gitlab, /var/opt/gitlab, /opt/gitlab, /home/gitlab and didn’t find it…
Also I didn’t find sidekiq.log in /var/log/gitlab/sidekiq.

Might this be caused by full memory or disk space? I only have 4GB of memory (and probably no swap, not sure right now), and I know I should upgrade asap.

Can someone help me out here?

Thanks in advance,
Felix

Hi, I have similar problem, did you find a solution ?
I can;t also find the bin/background_job nor sidekiq.log

for info, I found the background_job file in /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/bin

what are sidekiq usefull logs to look at, my sidekiq keeps rebooting since upgrade and the /var/log/gitlab/sidekiq/current is not telling me much

I still have the same problem with version 16.9

Just wanted to add that we saw the same problem while going from 16.11.6 to 17.2.1. It turns out we forgot to do gitlab-ctl reconfigure in our case. Once we’ve done that and restarted the services, the issue was fixed.