GitLab EE - path already taken

Question

I recently deleted a project. Now when I try and create it again using the same namespace and name GitLab EE gives me the following error:

"Name has already been taken" "Path has already been taken"

I'm running EE version 8.7.5-ee.

I also searched the /var/opt/gitlab/git-data directory and removed the directories that referenced my old project.

I tried clearing the redis cache using gitlab-rake cache:clear. I restarted the services and the server several times.

This normally doesn't happen, but at some point I setup repository mirroring against the repo and I also archived it. I'm trying to reproduce the issue but in the meantime I can't recreate the project. Does anyone have any ideas?

Yes, I agree. I'm engaging them on this. Pretty sure it's a bug, but hoped maybe someone knew a workaround. — Brandon Stiff, May 26 '16 at 18:09

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 08:30

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Can you try the following:

$ gitlab-rails console

> route = Route.find_by("path LIKE '%projectname%'")
> route.delete
> route.save

answered Sep 14 '17 at 08:30

Stijn Diependaele

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If I encounter this again, I'll try this. For now, the problem has gone away. Thanks for taking the time to offer the answer! – Brandon Stiff Sep 14 '17 at 13:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '22 at 08:04

Please check your access token. If access token is created at repository level then this issue will arise.

Solution:

create access token at root level (i.e. group,subgroup or gitlab)
use newly created access token to perform mirror operations or create repository)

GitLab EE - path already taken

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