Purging still does not fix this. $ sudo apt-get purge gitaly\* gitlab\* Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'gitaly' for glob 'gitaly*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-shell' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-common' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-cli' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-runner' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-workhorse' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-ci-multi-runner' for glob 'gitlab*' Note, selecting 'gitlab-runner' instead of 'gitlab-ci-multi-runner' Package 'gitlab-cli' is not installed, so not removed Package 'gitlab-runner' is not installed, so not removed ... The following packages will be REMOVED: gitaly* gitlab* gitlab-common* gitlab-shell* gitlab-workhorse* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 37 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 165 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 766431 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... /etc/gitlab/gitlab-debian.conf not found. Not removing anything. Removing gitaly (0.125.1+debian-3) ... Removing gitlab-common (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... Removing gitlab-shell (8.3.3+dfsg-2) ... Removing gitlab-workhorse (7.4.0+debian-2) ... (Reading database ... 749351 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for gitlab-common (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... Removing user: gitlab 127 userdel: gitlab mail spool (/var/mail/gitlab) not found Purging configuration files for gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... /var/lib/gitlab-common/gitlab-common.defaults not found. Not removing anything. dpkg: warning: while removing gitlab, directory '/var/log/gitlab' not empty so not removed Purging configuration files for gitaly (0.125.1+debian-3) ... Processing triggers for systemd (239-13) ...
Now trying to install gitlab: $ sudo apt-get install gitlab Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: ecj ecj-gcj ecj1 gcj-6-jre-lib libantlr-java libecj-java libecj-java-gcj libgcj-bc libgcj-common libgcj17 libqt4-dbus libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 qdbus qt-at-spi qtcore4-l10n Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: gitaly gitlab-common gitlab-shell gitlab-workhorse The following NEW packages will be installed: gitaly gitlab gitlab-common gitlab-shell gitlab-workhorse 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/56.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 165 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package gitlab-common. (Reading database ... 749170 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-common_11.3.11+dfsg-1_all.deb ... Unpacking gitlab-common (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package gitaly. Preparing to unpack .../gitaly_0.125.1+debian-3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gitaly (0.125.1+debian-3) ... Selecting previously unselected package gitlab-shell. Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-shell_8.3.3+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gitlab-shell (8.3.3+dfsg-2) ... Selecting previously unselected package gitlab-workhorse. Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-workhorse_7.4.0+debian-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gitlab-workhorse (7.4.0+debian-2) ... Selecting previously unselected package gitlab. Preparing to unpack .../gitlab_11.3.11+dfsg-1_all.deb ... Unpacking gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... Setting up gitlab-common (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... Creating/updating gitlab user account... adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/gitlab' does not belong to the user you are currently creating. Registering /etc/gitlab-common/gitlab-common.conf via ucf Creating config file /etc/gitlab-common/gitlab-common.conf with new version Setting up gitaly (0.125.1+debian-3) ... Resolving dependencies... Using concurrent-ruby 1.1.3 Following files may not be writable, so sudo is needed: /usr/local/bin /var/lib/gems/2.5.0 /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/build_info /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/cache /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/doc /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/extensions /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/gems /var/lib/gems/2.5.0/specifications Using i18n 1.1.1 Using minitest 5.11.3 Using thread_safe 0.3.6 Using tzinfo 1.2.5 Using activesupport 5.2.2 Using bundler 1.17.1 Using charlock_holmes 0.7.6 Using crass 1.0.4 Using escape_utils 1.2.1 Using multipart-post 2.0.0 Using faraday 0.15.4 Using json 2.1.0 Using gemojione 3.3.0 Using google-protobuf 3.6.1 Using googleapis-common-protos-types 1.0.2 Using grpc 1.17.0 (x86_64-linux) Using gitaly-proto 0.118.1 Using mime-types-data 3.2018.0812 Using mime-types 3.2.2 Using rugged 0.27.7 Using github-linguist 5.3.3 Using github-markup 1.7.0 Using gitlab-gollum-rugged_adapter 0.4.4.1 Using mini_portile2 2.3.0 Using nokogiri 1.8.5 Using rouge 3.3.0 Using nokogumbo 1.4.2 Using sanitize 4.6.6 Using stringex 2.8.5 Using gitlab-gollum-lib 4.2.7.5 Using licensee 8.9.2 Using rdoc 6.0.4 Using sentry-raven 2.7.4 Bundle complete! 13 Gemfile dependencies, 34 gems now installed. Use `bundle info [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/gitaly.service → /lib/systemd/system/gitaly.service. Setting up gitlab-shell (8.3.3+dfsg-2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (239-13) ... Setting up gitlab-workhorse (7.4.0+debian-2) ... Setting up gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... Creating runtime directories for gitlab... Updating file permissions... Configuring hostname and email... sed: -e expression #1, char 41: unknown option to `s' dpkg: error processing package gitlab (--configure): installed gitlab package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for systemd (239-13) ... Errors were encountered while processing: gitlab E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:56 PM Pirate Praveen <prav...@onenetbeyond.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:49:37 -0800 Pranith Kumar <bobby.pr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Package: gitlab > > Version: 11.3.11+dfsg-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > While installing gitlab, I am getting the following error. Please fix. > > > > Setting up gitlab (11.3.11+dfsg-1) ... > > Creating runtime directories for gitlab... > > Updating file permissions... > > Configuring hostname and email... > > sed: -e expression #1, char 41: unknown option to `s' > > dpkg: error processing package gitlab (--configure): > > installed gitlab package post-installation script subprocess returned > > error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > gitlab > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > I think the previous choices are still interfering in new installation. > > For example, > > * gitlab/remote/host: localhost > gitlab/db/app-user: www-data@localhost > > I suggest you do a purge and then install gitlab again. > -- Pranith