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Markus Weber
Markus Weber

Reputation: 1097

Failed to install gitlab-runner: Init already exists

I installed gitlab-runner via sudo apt install gitlab-runner, configured it according to the tutorial and it worked well.

Now I want to change the user of the gitlab-runner. So I stop the service with service gitlab-runner stop and try to change the user via 

sudo gitlab-runner install --user=my-user --working-directory=/home/my-user

I get following error message:

FATAL: Failed to install gitlab-runner: Init already exists: /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service

How to proceed?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 13332

Answers (2)

Nickeron-dev
Nickeron-dev

Reputation: 63

You can simply remove this file:

rm /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service

Or:

gitlab-runner uninstall

And then install gitlab-runner again.

Upvotes: 2

Markus Weber
Markus Weber

Reputation: 1097

  1. Rename the init file with 

    sudo mv /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service  /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service.bak

  2. and execute again

    sudo gitlab-runner install --user=my-user --working-directory=/home/my-user

  3. cleanup the backup file

    sudo rm /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service.bak

Finally you can start the runner again with service gitlab-runner start.

Upvotes: 10

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