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I encountered a problem while pushing new commits to my GitLab server. I was able to access the web front end, so the problem was specifically happening with the gitlab-shell.

• When I ran the following:
  

  git push origin master
  

  • I got the following error:
    

    /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/net/http.rb:878:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: hostname nor servname provided, or not known (SocketError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/net/http.rb:878:in `open'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/net/http.rb:878:in `block in connect'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/timeout.rb:52:in `timeout'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/net/http.rb:877:in `connect'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/net/http.rb:862:in `do_start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.0/net/http.rb:851:in `start'
        from /usr/home/git/gitlab-shell/lib/gitlab_net.rb:103:in `post'
        from /usr/home/git/gitlab-shell/lib/gitlab_net.rb:28:in `check_access'
        from /usr/home/git/gitlab-shell/lib/gitlab_shell.rb:63:in `validate_access'
        from /usr/home/git/gitlab-shell/lib/gitlab_shell.rb:24:in `exec'
        from /usr/home/git/gitlab-shell/bin/gitlab-shell:16:in `<main>'
    fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
    
    Please make sure you have the correct access rights
    and the repository exists.
    

• It turns out that I had recently migrated my name server and forgot to add a proper DNS record for the GitLab servers hostname. Once I added the DNS record I was able to push commits again.

Resources¶

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4132525/getaddrinfo-nodename-nor-servname-provided-or-not-known