GitLab CI - Project Build In Neverending Pending-State

Question

I'm in some trouble with GitLab CI. I followed offical guide on: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-ci/blob/master/doc/installation.md

Everything was ok, no errors nowhere. I followed Runner-Setup, too. Anything alright.

But...

When I add a runner to a project and then try to build nothing happens. It could be that I have not fully understood something or some of my configs are wrong. I'm absolutely new to GitLab CI, but I like it and I want to learn new stuff.

I would be very very glad if someone could help me in some way.

Thanks!

BIG UPDATE: Just figured out that:

~/gitlab-runners/gitlab-ci-runner$ bin/runner

Starting a runner process manually solves the problem but if I look at the gitlab-ci-runner in /etc/init.d -> it is running !?!

~/gitlab-runners/gitlab-ci-runner$ sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-runner start
Number of registered runners in PID file=1
Number of running runners=0
Error! GitLab CI runner(s) (gitlab-ci-runner) appear to be running already! Try stopping them first. Exiting.
~/gitlab-runners/gitlab-ci-runner$ sudo /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-runner stop
Number of registered runners in PID file=1
Number of running runners=0
WARNING: Numbers of registered runners don't match number of running runners. Will try to stop them all
Registered runners=1
Running runners=0
Trying to stop registered runners...kill: No such process
OK
Trying to kill ghost runners...OK

What's wrong here? I'm out of my power or not seeing the problem?!

Answer 1

Problem solved!

You need to edit some values in /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-runner script!

APP_ROOT="**PATH_TO**/gitlab-runners/gitlab-ci-runner"
APP_USER="**USER_WITH_DIRRIGHTS!**"
PID_PATH="$APP_ROOT/tmp/pids"
PROCESS_NAME="ruby ./bin/runner"
RUNNERS_PID="$PID_PATH/runners.pid"
RUNNERS_NUM=1 # number of runners to spawn 
START_RUNNER="nohup bundle exec ./bin/runner"

Now it works!