Upgrade to the newer chef version
We are running into some issues with gitlab-ctl reconfigure
after upgrading omnibus in 7.10., namely:
Chef::Exceptions::JSON::EncodeError: Invalid UTF-8 string:
.
This can fail at various places depending on which plugin ohai called by when it fails with ohai etc
it is a real issue as we cannot force users to change their username.
This issue is described in https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/3216 and fixed with https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/3320 .
We should upgrade to the latest chef with this fix.
IMO this is quite urgent.
Related to https://dev.gitlab.org/gitlab/omnibus-gitlab/issues/19