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Gitaly fails to start: can't create unix socket gitaly.socket: operation not supported #3278

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root@d5090cf45b32:/home/git/gitlab# su - git -c "/usr/local/bin/gitaly /home/git/gitaly/config.toml"
INFO[0000] Starting Gitaly version="Gitaly, version 13.0.6"
WARN[0000] git path not configured. Using default path resolution resolvedPath=/usr/bin/git
INFO[0000] clearing disk cache object folder path=/home/git/data/repositories
INFO[0000] moving disk cache object folder to /home/git/data/repositories/+gitaly/tmp/diskcache918769666 path=/home/git/data/repositories
INFO[0000] disk cache object folder doesn't exist, no need to remove path=/home/git/data/repositories
INFO[0000] Starting file walker for /home/git/data/repositories/+gitaly/cache path=/home/git/data/repositories/+gitaly/cache
INFO[0000] Starting file walker for /home/git/data/repositories/+gitaly/state path=/home/git/data/repositories/+gitaly/state
INFO[0000] cleared all cache object files in /home/git/data/repositories/+gitaly/tmp/diskcache918769666 after 640.121µs path=/home/git/data/repositories
INFO[0000] finished tempdir cleaner walk storage=default time_ms=0
ERRO[0000] shutting down error="unable to start the bootstrap: can't create new listener: listen unix /home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/private/gitaly.socket: operation not supported"

root@d5090cf45b32:/home/git/gitlab# ls -ld /home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/private
drwxrwxrwx 1 git git 4096 Jun 13 2020 /home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/private
root@d5090cf45b32:/home/git/gitlab# stat /home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/private
File: /home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/private
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 5eh/94d Inode: 79993348 Links: 1
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 1000/ git) Gid: ( 1000/ git)
Access: 2026-07-24 10:04:55.402432182 +0800
Modify: 2020-06-13 19:04:28.000000000 +0800
Change: 2026-07-24 10:04:55.425267171 +0800
Birth: -
root@d5090cf45b32:/home/git/gitlab# mount | grep -E 'home|gitlab'
/dev/sda4 on /etc/gitlab type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda4 on /home/git/data type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda4 on /var/log/gitlab type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda4 on /home/git/data/backups type ext4 (rw,relatime)

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