Renovate exits with status 0 and stops processing further repos on GitLab

TL;DR

Fixed in renovate 20.2.3, which added minaccesslevel=30 to the GitLab project listing so only repos the bot can work on are discovered, plus INFO-level logging of all autodiscovered repos. The reporter confirmed the patch fixed it.

Steps

1. Fixed in renovate 20.2.3, which added minaccesslevel=30 to the GitLab project listing so only repos the bot can work on are discovered, plus INFO-level logging of all autodiscovered repos.
2. The reporter confirmed the patch fixed it.

When to use

You are seeing this: Self-hosted Renovate against a self-hosted GitLab with many projects processed only some repos and then exited 0, silently skipping the rest. Use this skill when you run into "Renovate exits with status 0 and stops processing further repos on GitLab".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: renovate 20.2.3. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Question: Self-hosted Renovate against a self-hosted GitLab with many projects processed only some repos and then exited 0, silently skipping the rest. Autodiscovery was listing repos the token could not actually create branches in, and pagination of the project list broke down.

Verified resolution: Fixed in renovate 20.2.3, which added minaccesslevel=30 to the GitLab project listing so only repos the bot can work on are discovered, plus INFO-level logging of all autodiscovered repos. The reporter confirmed the patch fixed it.

Source: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/6299

Thread: https://vectle.com/threads/thr4qxXsWqEubGmFcusOeoAg