After installing gitlab from the omnibus install, use the gitlab-ctl command to query status, and start/stop the gitlab service (see here):
$ sudo gitlab-ctl status
If gitlab’s main service has been disabled, all the sub-services will report ‘runsv not running’:
fail: gitaly: runsv not running
You can reset the main service to run at startup with (see here):
sudo systemctl enable gitlab-runsvdir.serviceTo disable startup at boot:
sudo systemctl disable gitlab-runsvdir.service
If runsvdir is not enabled to start at boot, then start with:
sudo systemctl start gitlab-runsvdir.service
To start/stop gitlab:
$ sudo gitlab-ctl start $ sudo gitlab-ctl stop