Trying to upgrade from v8.15.5 to at least v8.17.7 for now but I’m running into some errors, shown below. It seems like as GitLab tries to upgrade, there’s a parsing error in gitlab-secrects.json file. I’m noticing that when I try and view the gitlab-secrets.json file, it’s not viewable in vim, it’s like it’s a data file or binary file and not ascii. I’m noticing on my other GitLab test instance that it is readable via vim.

Does anyone know if the gitlab-secrets.json file is supposed to be in a non-readable file format ? Maybe that’s why the GitLab upgrade process is not abel to parse it ? Not sure.

Here is the error I’m encountering :

Creating backup archive: 1613528275_2021_02_17_gitlab_backup.tar … done
Uploading backup archive to remote storage … skipped
Deleting tmp directories … done
done
Deleting old backups … done. (0 removed)
Updating : gitlab-ce-8.17.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64

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gitlab: Thank you for installing GitLab!
gitlab: To configure and start GitLab, RUN THE FOLLOWING COMMAND:

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

gitlab: GitLab should be reachable at https://ul11me-3470-001.silicon.us-cert.gov
gitlab: Otherwise configure GitLab for your system by editing /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb file
gitlab: And running reconfigure again.
gitlab:
gitlab: For a comprehensive list of configuration options please see the Omnibus GitLab readme
gitlab: README.md · master · GitLab.org / omnibus-gitlab · GitLab
gitlab:

gitlab: GitLab now ships with a newer version of PostgreSQL (9.6.1), and will be used
gitlab: as the default in the next major release. To upgrade, RUN THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS:

sudo gitlab-ctl pg-upgrade

gitlab: For more details, please see:
gitlab: Database settings | GitLab
gitlab:
Cleanup : gitlab-ce-8.15.5-ce.0.el7.x86_64
Checking PostgreSQL executables: OK
Shutting down all GitLab services except those needed for migrations
ok: down: gitlab-workhorse: 0s, normally up
ok: down: logrotate: 0s, normally up
ok: down: nginx: 1s, normally up
ok: down: postgresql: 0s, normally up
ok: down: redis: 1s, normally up
ok: down: sidekiq: 0s, normally up
ok: down: unicorn: 0s, normally up
ok: run: postgresql: (pid 4730) 1s
ok: run: redis: (pid 4738) 0s
run: postgresql: (pid 4730) 1s; run: log: (pid 935) 1980s
run: redis: (pid 4738) 0s; run: log: (pid 928) 1980s
Reconfiguring GitLab to apply migrations

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Recipe Compile Error in /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/default.rb

Chef::Exceptions::JSON::ParseError

lexical error: invalid char in json text.
(right here) ------^

Cookbook Trace:

/opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/libraries/helper.rb:217:in read_gitlab_secrets' /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/libraries/gitlab.rb:117:in generate_secrets’
/opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/libraries/gitlab.rb:226:in generate_config' /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/config.rb:24:in from_file’
/opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/recipes/default.rb:26:in `from_file’

Relevant File Content:

/opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/cache/cookbooks/gitlab/libraries/helper.rb:

210:
211: class SecretsHelper
212:
213: def self.read_gitlab_secrets
214: existing_secrets ||= Hash.new
215:
216: if File.exists?("/etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json")
217>> existing_secrets = Chef::JSONCompat.from_json(File.read("/etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json"))
218: end
219:
220: existing_secrets.each do |k, v|
221: if Gitlab[k]
222: v.each do |pk, p|
223: # Note: Specifiying a secret in gitlab.rb will take precendence over “gitlab-secrets.json”
224: Gitlab[k][pk] ||= p
225: end
226: else

Platform:

x86_64-linux

warning: %posttrans(gitlab-ce-8.17.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure in rpm package gitlab-ce-8.17.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64
Verifying : gitlab-ce-8.17.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64 1/2
Verifying : gitlab-ce-8.15.5-ce.0.el7.x86_64 2/2

Updated:
gitlab-ce.x86_64 0:8.17.7-ce.0.el7

Complete!