Self-managed runners are failing after runners are upgraded to 17.5Operational

Components

Website, CI/CD - Hosted runners for GitLab community contributions

Locations

Google Compute Engine



October 18, 2024 21:18 UTC
[Resolved] Runner version 17.5.1 has been released and includes a fix for the "failed to get user home dir: $HOME is not defined" error. No action besides upgrading Runner is required. For more details see: gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/18732

October 18, 2024 10:25 UTC
[Identified] We have identified the problem and are working on releasing a patch for version 17.5. We will send a new update once the patch is available. For more information please see gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/18732.

October 18, 2024 09:49 UTC
[Investigating] Self-managed runners are failing with the error "failed to get user home dir: $HOME is not defined" after upgrading the GitLab runner to version 17.5. The current workaround is to downgrade the affected runners back to version 17.4. More details are available in gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/38252.

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