PANIC: Failed to register the runner. You may be having network problems

[das85]

Hi! I installed a new yunohost server in VM and after a few DNS and SSL cert issues I finally got most everything working.
So far it is working very good except for one issue…

My YunoHost server

Hardware: Local VM behind a firewall.

• libvirt/kvm
• 4 virtual CPUs
• 26624 MiB ram

YunoHost version: 4.2.5.3 (stable).
I have access to my server : all three:

1. Through SSH
2. through the webadmin
3. direct access via keyboard / screen
   I can ssh in an tail -f install logs as the installs are taking place.

Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no

Description of my issue

I can’t register a gitlab-runner. I can access the gitlab server via ssh and https. I can do git push/pulls against it. I can access to the https gitlab and projects.

The gitlab-server is running on my fresh yunohost server.

Here is the paste of the install logs.
https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/pulucakaru

Also tried installing the runner from ArchLinux and FreeBSD and got the
following, which is the same error message that is in the logs:

PANIC: Failed to register the runner. You may be having network problems. 
ERROR: Registering runner... failed                 runner=JWfiVxDd status=200 OK

How can there be a network problem when it is on the same machine or subnet?

• in the case of trying to install via the yunohost server that has the gitlab instance
• or in the case of the ArchLinux and FreeBSD attempts (same subnet)

I can curl the https main login URL and the gitlab server URL and I don’t get SSL certificate errors.

[das85]

So, I removed gitlab, am starting over. also did a userdel -r -f git*

(where git* is very user with git in the name in /etc/passwd)

Reinstalled gitlab, I’ll see if I can install gitlab-runner now…

[das85]

ok… now running into runner can’t install dependencies problem…

and, on other machines still can’t install git runner, still running into:

ERROR: Registering runner... failed                 runner=zyzCxF3d status=200 OK
PANIC: Failed to register the runner. You may be having network problems. 

[das85]

Well, I reduced the memory footprint of that VM down to 4GiG and removed gitlab… Going to try gitlab on it it’s own VM (new yunhost install).

EDIT: That did not work either. So I created a CentOS 8 VM and installed gitlab in that… (And I can register runners with it). I’m closing this post, because that this point I have at gitlab server and don’t need to get one working in yunohost.