We haven't produced an updated GitLab appliance for a while because it's such a PITA to make it reliable for new users.
Even if this is a TurnKey appliance, then I don't actually have much experience with GitLab so unlikely to have answers. The only thing I can recommend is you check that you have GitLab installed from the Omnibus package. If you do, then perhaps try updating as see if that helps?
We haven't produced an updated GitLab appliance for a while because it's such a PITA to make it reliable for new users.
Even if this is a TurnKey appliance, then I don't actually have much experience with GitLab so unlikely to have answers. The only thing I can recommend is you check that you have GitLab installed from the Omnibus package. If you do, then perhaps try updating as see if that helps?
If it's nto a TurnKey appliance and/or updating to the latest GitLab release doesn't help, then GitLab recommend first searching the docs, then if you can't find anything there, searching and/or posting in the GitLab community forums and/or StackOverflow ('gitlab' tag). Worst case, if you're willing to pay, then GitLab have paid support plans.