runners can't repeat a successful build

I find I can't repeat a successful build:

gitlab-ci-multi-runner 0.4.2 (1e86428)
Using Shell executor...
bash: line 5: builds/c08e060a/0/libsys/CI-test.sh: cannot overwrite existing file

Build failed with exit status 1

For some reason a shell runner can't overwrite a shell script that it created.

ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 24 13:36 CI-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  996 Jun 24 13:36 CI-test.sh

I can remove to builds directory manually and then it will re-pull and run, but it isn't a viable workaround to remove the builds dir everytime.

On what system does it happen? Can you post some details?

Redhat 6. Using the repo install, not from source. Setup runner and am able to have it run a job fine, but if I run another or retry a job it gives the error.

The file should be overwritten without any problems.

However it's interesting why the files are made by root?

Can you post:

1. cat /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-multi-runner
2. ps auxf | grep gitlab-ci-multi-runner

Here you go...

$ cat /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-multi-runner
#!/bin/sh
# For RedHat and cousins:
# chkconfig: - 99 01
# description: GitLab Runner
# processname: /usr/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner
 
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

name="gitlab-ci-multi-runner"
desc="GitLab Runner"
user="root"
cmd=/usr/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner
args=" "run" "--config" "config.toml""
log_file="/var/log/$name.log"
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$name

# Source networking configuration.
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/$name ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$name
 
start() {
    echo -n $"Starting $desc: "
    daemon --user=$user bash --login -c "'exec $cmd $args 1>&3 2>&3 &'" 3>> $log_file
    retval=$?
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
    echo
    return $retval
}
 
stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $desc: "
    killproc $cmd -TERM
    retval=$?
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
    echo
    return $retval
}
 
restart() {
    stop
    start
}
 
reload() {
    echo -n $"Reloading $desc: "
    killproc $cmd -HUP
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
}
 
force_reload() {
    restart
}
 
rh_status() {
    status $cmd
}
 
rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}
 
case "$1" in
    start)
        rh_status_q && exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    stop)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    restart)
        $1
        ;;
    reload)
        rh_status_q || exit 7
        $1
        ;;
    force-reload)
        force_reload
        ;;
    status)
        rh_status
        ;;
    condrestart|try-restart)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
            ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload}"
        exit 2
esac

$ ps auxf | grep gitlab-ci-multi-runner
root     22567  0.1  0.5 477700  9924 ?        Sl   Jun24   1:42 /usr/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner run --config config.toml

From your response I surmise that the /usr/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner should be running as the ci runner account?

Did you do hand installation?

No. Followed this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/blob/master/docs/install/linux-repository.md

There was a problem with not properly updated init.d script. Can you uninstall and install it once again (it will preserve all configuration)?

No joy on uninstall, reinstall.

Still get same error.

Also, it looks like the gitlab-ci-multi-runner command doesn't work right. I did sudo -u gitlab_ci_multi_runner -H gitlab-ci-multi-runner stop and it killed the gitlab-ci-runner process but didn't kill it nicely:

sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-multi-runner status
gitlab-ci-multi-runner dead but subsys locked

I had one more thought. In our setup we use a NFS mount for home directory for users.

I had to customize the /etc/passwd to get it to work.

gitlab_ci_multi_runner:x:2669:2669:GitLab Runner:/usr/local/home/gitlab_ci_multi_runner:/bin/bash

Perhaps the path /home/gitlab_ci_multi_runner is hard coded somewhere?

still doesn't work with 7.12.2

Milestone changed to v0.6.0

Do you have noclobber enabled in your shell?

yes.

Ok. That's the problem.

Status changed to closed