install on mac

I cannot get the runner work on mac following the installation guide. A couple of issues I had:

The wget command did not work (I think, it's not installed on a clean mac, my one did not have https support built in). So, instead of this:

sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner https://gitlab-ci-multi-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-ci-multi-runner-darwin-amd64

I used this:

sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner https://gitlab-ci-multi-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-ci-multi-runner-darwin-amd64

I got this error when I tried to start the runner from a user that was not interactively logged in (not ssh or su).

cmiclab-mac:~ gitlab-runner$ gitlab-ci-multi-runner start
FATA[0000] Failed to start GitLab Runner: "launchctl" failed: exit status 112, Could not find domain for 
 

This did not happen with a user that was logged in. (Not 100% sure that the interactive session made the difference.)

Some hints might be useful on the install guide about the prerequisites. I installed boot2docker. I get this error on gitlab ci:

gitlab-ci-multi-runner 0.3.2 (395f2e4)
Using Docker executor with image ruby:2.1 ...
Pulling docker image ruby:2.1 ...

Build failed with dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory

I placed this command to the .bash_profile:

eval "$(boot2docker shellinit)"

that should set the DOCKER_HOST variable to resolve this, but the runner still fails with the same error.

Any idea?

(Sorry for misusing the issue tracker for multiple issues, I don't know which is the best forum to get help.)

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1. It connects to launchd and it requires interactive to manage service. Currently the daemon is installed in context of current user and is automatically started when the user logs. You can always run daemon in screen:

gitlab-ci-multi-runner run

2. About the Docker: It currently doesn't fetch the environment variables from bash_profile, because the process is run by launchd (not through bash). You can workaround it by specifying in config.toml in runners.docker the host and tls_cert_path parameters. I will think how to make it share the environments from bash, maybe I can think about something.

This should help you to setup environment variables for launchd: http://www.dowdandassociates.com/blog/content/howto-set-an-environment-variable-in-mac-os-x-launchd-plist/

Milestone changed to v0.4.0

Status changed to closed

Same problem for me, the users launchagent would only load when the user was logged in to screen, when i logged out it stopped.

I copyied the file as a global daemon (/Library/LaunchDaemons) and added the key to run as the right user and now its working.

Many thanks for your recommendation Fred! I can confirm that it works for us as well. Just for clarity, I've added this line to the generated gitlab-runner.plist file:

<key>UserName</key><string>gitlab-runner</string>

BTW I was missing that file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. In case this is the case for someone else in the future, running gitlab-ci-multi-runner install generates it.

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