Not long ago I've migrated last of my SVN-managed projects into Git with GitLab (finally!). Everything was OK, until this message occurred, when I tried to do an web-based repository file update:
Your changes could not be commited, because the file has been changed
After googling I've executed following command (because I didn't create satellites earlier):
sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:satellites:create RAILS_ENV=production
Unfortunately this didn't solve my problem (although I'm pretty sure, that either way this was required). I've decided to check GitLab logs, but unluckily nothing suspicious was there. I suddenly remembered, that by default all my Rails/Rack Passenger applications are executed using www-data user. This was a good guess. I've added a user declaration in Apache vhost configuration file:
PassengerUser git
and after that I've finally started to get some new things in application log:
Errno::EACCES (Permission denied - /home/git/gitlab/tmp/satellite_15.lock): lib/gitlab/satellite/satellite.rb:57:in `initialize' lib/gitlab/satellite/satellite.rb:57:in `open' lib/gitlab/satellite/satellite.rb:57:in `lock' lib/gitlab/satellite/action.rb:23:in `block in in_locked_and_timed_satellite' lib/gitlab/satellite/action.rb:22:in `in_locked_and_timed_satellite' lib/gitlab/satellite/edit_file_action.rb:22:in `commit!' app/controllers/edit_tree_controller.rb:18:in `update'
All my satellite locks were created by www-data user with different set of privileges, so git user was not able to use them. After I removed all the locks and restarted both GitLab and Apache server, everything started to work just fine:
sudo rm /home/gitlab/tmp/satellite_* /etc/init.d/apache2 restart /etc/init.d/gitlab restart