How I fixed project transfer error Gitlab URI::InvalidURIError (query conflicts with opaque)

Problem:

Any time I was trying to transfer a project in my docker-hosted gitlab instance. the transfer failed with error 500 and I was presented with the following error log:

==> /var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails/production.log <==
  
URI::InvalidURIError (query conflicts with opaque):
  
lib/container_registry/client.rb:84:in `repository_tags'
app/models/container_repository.rb:94:in `manifest'
app/models/container_repository.rb:98:in `tags'
app/models/container_repository.rb:118:in `has_tags?'
app/models/project.rb:2890:in `has_root_container_repository_tags?'
app/models/project.rb:1037:in `has_container_registry_tags?'
app/services/projects/transfer_service.rb:61:in `transfer'
app/services/projects/transfer_service.rb:35:in `execute'
app/controllers/projects_controller.rb:120:in `transfer'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:490:in `set_current_admin'
lib/gitlab/session.rb:11:in `with_session'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:481:in `set_session_storage'
lib/gitlab/i18n.rb:105:in `with_locale'
lib/gitlab/i18n.rb:111:in `with_user_locale'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:475:in `set_locale'
app/controllers/application_controller.rb:469:in `set_current_context'
lib/gitlab/metrics/elasticsearch_rack_middleware.rb:16:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/rails_queue_duration.rb:33:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/speedscope.rb:13:in `call'
lib/gitlab/request_profiler/middleware.rb:17:in `call'
lib/gitlab/database/load_balancing/rack_middleware.rb:23:in `call'
lib/gitlab/metrics/rack_middleware.rb:16:in `block in call'
lib/gitlab/metrics/web_transaction.rb:46:in `run'
lib/gitlab/metrics/rack_middleware.rb:16:in `call'
lib/gitlab/jira/middleware.rb:19:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/go.rb:20:in `call'
lib/gitlab/etag_caching/middleware.rb:21:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/multipart.rb:173:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/read_only/controller.rb:50:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/read_only.rb:18:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/same_site_cookies.rb:27:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/handle_malformed_strings.rb:21:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/basic_health_check.rb:25:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/handle_ip_spoof_attack_error.rb:25:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/request_context.rb:21:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/webhook_recursion_detection.rb:15:in `call'
config/initializers/fix_local_cache_middleware.rb:11:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/compressed_json.rb:26:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/rack_multipart_tempfile_factory.rb:19:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/sidekiq_web_static.rb:20:in `call'
lib/gitlab/metrics/requests_rack_middleware.rb:75:in `call'
lib/gitlab/middleware/release_env.rb:13:in `call'

Solution

This error seems to occur if you had a docker registry configured in previous gitlab versions (a legacy docker repository) but doesn’t disappear even after deconfiguring the registry.

In order to fix it, I logged into the container using

docker-compose exec gitlab /bin/bash

and edited /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/app/models/project.rb using

vi /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/app/models/project.rb

where on line 2890 you can find the following function:

##
# This method is here because of support for legacy container repository
# which has exactly the same path like project does, but which might not be
# persisted in `container_repositories` table.
#
def has_root_container_repository_tags?
  return false unless Gitlab.config.registry.enabled

  ContainerRepository.build_root_repository(self).has_tags?
end

We just want Gitlab to ignore the repository stuff, so we insert return false after the return false unless Gitlab.config.registry.enabled line:

##
# This method is here because of support for legacy container repository
# which has exactly the same path like project does, but which might not be
# persisted in `container_repositories` table.
#
def has_root_container_repository_tags?
  return false unless Gitlab.config.registry.enabled
  return false

  ContainerRepository.build_root_repository(self).has_tags?
end

to fake Gitlab into thinking that repository does not have any legacy registries. After that, save the file and

sudo gitlab-ctl restart

after which you should be able to transfer your repositories just fine.