Issue with gitlab and old openssl version (after migrating from 8.8 to 8.11)

[Daniel Le Berre]

Dear all,

I just updated my instance of gitlab 8.8 to gitlab 8.11 from source.

I have some error 500 on some projects.

After digging the issue, I found the origin of the problem:

In production.log

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 43ms (ActiveRecord: 1.9ms)

NotImplementedError (authenticated?() function is unimplemented on this machine):

  app/models/project.rb:489:in `import_url'

  app/models/project.rb:525:in `external_import?'

  app/models/project.rb:517:in `import?'

  app/models/project.rb:533:in `import_in_progress?'

  app/controllers/projects_controller.rb:94:in `show'

  lib/gitlab/request_profiler/middleware.rb:15:in `call'

  lib/gitlab/middleware/go.rb:16:in `call'

I am running an old version of openssl, in which the authenticated?() method is not available. 

I think that the closest issue is that one:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19073#note_12712670

AFAI understand the issue, the errors (unability to connect to a project) are related to the existence of pending MR.

Is there a simple workaround to solve this, until I can install a new version of openssl?

I am running an old debian on which I cannot make easily updates (an OS update is planned, but no ready yet).

Regards, 

Daniel