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When a non-owner dev pushes a branch to our Gitlab repo, it returns a "pipeline failed" message, with the detail "Pipeline failed due to the user not being verified". On the dev's account, he's getting a prompt to add a credit card to verify him to be eligible for free pipeline minutes.

But I haven't set up any pipelines - I don't have a gitlab-ci.yml file in my repo, neither does the new branch. There are no jobs or schedules under the CI/CD tab of the project on Gitlab. So why is there a marker saying the branch failed in the pipeline?

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    Same Issue. This was not happening yesterday (7th June 2021). Commented Jun 8, 2021 at 14:12
  • You can use virtual debit cards , one can use paytm debit card too . Commented Sep 29, 2021 at 17:38

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In my case, I was using my own runner for my project. In that case also, I got this error.

I fixed the error by disabling the shared runner in my project. Under

Setting -> CICD -> Runner (Expand) -> Under the shared runner section, disable Shared runner.
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in my CI/CD, I don't see any Runner option. This is from the side navigation bar in my project. The options under my CI/CD are Pipelines, Editor, Jobs, Schedules
note: this is the same as disabling cd/ci unless you are pointing to private runners. So, kinda of throwing the baby with the bath water kinda of solution.
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They say that they will not charge anything on the account or store the details of the card, but they actually charge $1. (which is reversed instantly)

Hence you need a card with international transactions available. (if you're not in the US).

I wonder why this declaration is not made on the website. Definitely doesn't look good on part of such a large company as GitLab!

As for the answer, providing a credit/debit card with international transactions enabled and $1 to spare does the deed.

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Gitlab updates about free pipeline minutes available on GitLab.com.

Solve proplem:

  1. Provide a credit or debit card and use the 400 free minutes with shared runners.
  2. You use your own runner and disable shared runners for their project.

Best regards.

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For all those still wondering, I contacted Gitlab recently & apparently it's an open issue with them. They said it's possible to merge the branches anyway, but in the end we just added the credit card details anyway (there was a temporary charge). Not ideal, but hopefully will get sorted soon.

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This maybe is a bug, please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/331959

All answer above is good, but maybe have a little bit misunderstanding about credit card preauthorization.

When we use credit card, shop will request bank freeze some credits (usually the total price) for this transaction. At a moment (depended on shop), they ask bank for payment and get cash. After this, bank send bill to user.

Preauthorization is a action of freeze credits.

If shop doesn't ask bank for payment, bank will not give them cash and customer will not receive bill.

Preauthorization is a way that check validity of credit card. A common amount is one U.S. dollar. This is very common on Google Play and App Store when you add a new card.

Gitlab use this way to confirm whether the credit card is valid as same.

Although it depends on their internal operations, I think Gitlab does not need to cancel the transaction specifically, the only one thing need to do is that make sure they won’t ask bank pay for this preauthorization.

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Adding to what Shivem Khandelwal posted, I found this youtube video that goes through the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3G0qxwT11c

The message that gitlab gives saying that it won't charge is a bit miss leading, because what happens is:

  1. Gitlab charges you $1
  2. Gitlab rollback the transaction

This flow sometimes is not logged into the credit card. Maybe this is the reason behind the sentence "we won't charge"

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Disable 'Enable instance runners for this project'

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it happens when you have multiple projects. try to solve by yourself. easy chhe ne

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