500 error when trying to create merge request soon after pushing
Summary
User was unable to create a pull request soon after pushing, with an unhelpful 500 error. Issue resolved itself after a few minutes.
Steps to reproduce
Upload a trivial merge request then visit URL given in git output, e.g. https://artifex.githost.io/joseph/sot/merge_requests/new?merge_request%5Bsource_branch%5D=xlsx-crash-fix
What is the current bug behavior?
500 error shown to user
What is the expected correct behavior?
Either page should work, or should say "We're still processing your commits, try again in a bit."
Relevant logs and/or screenshots
From production.log:
Started GET "/joseph/sot/merge_requests/new?merge_request%5Bsource_branch%5D=xlsx-crash-fix" for 81.187.12.227 at 2017-03-01 11:18:54 +0000
Processing by Projects::MergeRequestsController#new as HTML
Parameters: {"merge_request"=>{"source_branch"=>"xlsx-crash-fix"}, "namespace_id"=>"joseph", "project_id"=>"sot"}
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 441ms (ActiveRecord: 45.5ms)
Rugged::OdbError (Object not found - no match for id (0c581290fc3f4d0f66ec5aec961e33fcf051f467)):
app/models/repository.rb:1134:in `merge_base'
app/models/repository.rb:1134:in `merge_base'
app/models/project.rb:479:in `merge_base_commit'
app/models/merge_request.rb:288:in `branch_merge_base_commit'
app/models/merge_request.rb:222:in `diff_base_commit'
app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb:667:in `define_new_vars'
app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb:233:in `block (2 levels) in new'
app/controllers/projects/merge_requests_controller.rb:232:in `new'
lib/gitlab/middleware/multipart.rb:93:in `call'
lib/gitlab/request_profiler/middleware.rb:14:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/go.rb:16:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/readonly_geo.rb:30:in `call'Output of checks
No idea what this means.
Results of GitLab environment info
We don't have access to githost.io instance to run this. Version is GitLab Enterprise Edition 8.17.0-ee 22400e67 .
Results of GitLab application Check
We don't have access to githost.io instance to run this.
Possible fixes
Unknown