Renovate: Renovate app disabled on gitlab.com

Created on 29 Nov 2020 · 14Comments · Source: renovatebot/renovate

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Old description

What Renovate type, platform and version are you using?

GitLab hosted app

Describe the bug

After I pushed this commit to one of my GitLab projects, Renovate started failing, as seen in the screenshot below. The other problem is that I can't access the logs. When I click on any of those logs, nothing loads and I see a 404 error in the JavaScript console.

I tried to reproduce the problem locally, but my local copy of Renovate ran with no issues (that's why the current merge requests on that project are opened by me, not Renovate). I think I need help investigating on your server end.

Screenshot of the Renovate app. All the logs are labeled as 'error'.

Relevant debug logs

I can't access the logs. When I click on any of the log entries in the Renovate app, nothing loads and I see a 404 error in the JavaScript console.

To Reproduce

I don't know.

Additional context

I tried running it locally against the same repository, but it worked fine. I don't know what else to try.

gitlab priority-2-important bug

Source

stephenwade

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Most helpful comment

No, this is just for the hosted app. If you self-host Renovate, you are not affected. We should have an update tomorrow regarding the app.

rarkins on 1 Dec 2020

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All 14 comments

Renovate app is currently disabled on gitlab. We will provide more information later.

viceice on 29 Nov 2020

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@viceice
Is Renovate App also disabled for gitlab.com for self hosted Renovate App ?

vnea on 1 Dec 2020

No, this is just for the hosted app. If you self-host Renovate, you are not affected. We should have an update tomorrow regarding the app.

rarkins on 1 Dec 2020

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No, this is just for the hosted app. If you self-host Renovate, you are not affected. We should have an update tomorrow regarding the app.

Thank you :)

vnea on 1 Dec 2020

@rankins Is there already any news on this?

toinehartman on 3 Dec 2020

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Please see https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/master/docs/usage/install-gitlab-app.md for an explanation.

rarkins on 3 Dec 2020

There's also very easy instructions on how to setup your own renovatebot runner inside GitLab, using GitLabCI infrastructure, minimal configuration and no security risk: https://gitlab.com/renovate-bot/renovate-runner/-/blob/master/README.md

caiofbpa on 3 Dec 2020

@Potherca that's quite unhelpful because you have left out the link to the main doc discussing GitLab security and a migration plan. I am going to minimize your comment as it does more harm than help.

rarkins on 3 Dec 2020

The important information is linked from the above doc to here: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/master/docs/usage/gitlab-bot-security.md

rarkins on 3 Dec 2020

There's also very easy instructions on how to setup your own renovatebot runner inside GitLab, using GitLabCI infrastructure, minimal configuration and no security risk: https://gitlab.com/renovate-bot/renovate-runner/-/blob/master/README.md

I tried to follow this guide, but it didn't get me there:

created a new blank project
added .gitlab-ci.yml containing:

include:
  - project: 'renovate-bot/renovate-runner'
    file: '/templates/renovate.gitlab-ci.yml'

set the masked & protected RENOVATE_TOKEN ci variable with a new token with the right permissions (left the rest default, so a shared runner, etc — the gitlab docs don't seem to define what this "privileged runner" mentioned by the guide is)

Trying to then run the CI just yields

The form contains the following error:
No stages / jobs for this pipeline.

I've only used basic CI setups before, so I'm assuming this yml should import the renovate.gitlab-ci.yml file from the renovate-runner project and _that_ should define the necessary stages/jobs. It seems something isn't set up right or the instructions omit something, or did I misinterpret something in the guide?

leaumar on 3 Dec 2020

@leaumar I just looked into the pipeline files. Have you tried to manually add the following to your custom renovate CI file?

stages:
  - deploy

This might fix your problem, but I cannot assure it right now. I will try to setup this myself in the next few moments, so I will try it myself as well and update the post if I know more.

ChristianIvicevic on 3 Dec 2020

I got it to work very easily by following all steps in the README: https://gitlab.com/renovate-bot/renovate-runner/-/blob/master/README.md

Anyway, I think another issue should be created for problems in that installation, this issue is more focused on news about getting RenovateBot working again as a standalone GitLab App.

caiofbpa on 3 Dec 2020

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