Hosted weblate fails to create pull request on gitlab.com with error 403 Forbidden (-1)

[1u]

Describe the issue

Automatic and manual pushes lead to error 405
"Failed to create pull request: 403 Forbidden (-1)"

We have some memories that it happened before and disappeared again just like this.

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go to https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/openki/openki/#repository
2. Go to "2 Outgoing commits in the Weblate repository"
3. Click on push
4. See error above and underneath

Expected behavior

Creating a pull request on https://gitlab.com/Openki/Openki/ branch dev

Screenshots

Exception traceback

Error above: "Could not push to remote branch on Openki/Openki."
Underneath: "Failed to create pull request: 403 Forbidden (-1)"

How do you run Weblate?

weblate.org service

Weblate versions

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Weblate deploy checks

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Additional context

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[nijel]

Most likely, it's caused by the Openki Gitlab repository configuration. I don't see the "New merge request" button at https://gitlab.com/Openki/Openki/-/merge_requests as I see it on other projects ....

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[1u]

Hi thx for answering! And looking into it a bit.

So no other gitlab.com repositories that are affected by the same problem...

I checked a lot of settings in the repository on GitLab before opening this issue. I didn't find any settings that would forbid to make a merge request. And we don't remember having changed something there. I'm now in contact with GitLabs support. I'll keep you updated here.

[nijel]

All I can see on this project is "Email a new merge request to this project", on anything else, there is also "New merge request" button, which allows me to create it in the UI.

Openki:

osinfo-db-tool:

[1u]

@nijel yes exactly, thx for the screenshots. Sorry I didn't confirm this before: I saw the exact same behavior...

I didn't get a helping response from gitlab support yet. I now just added gitlab user "weblate" as role "reporter" to the openki repository and pushed manually here. And it worked. No idea what's going wrong. I'll keep you updated here if I find out more.

[1u]

Removed Weblate as role "reporter" from the repo -> Pushing didn't work again.
Added as "Guest" -> Pushing worked again.

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[1u]

Update: Gitlab support is looking into it further. Pointed me to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/358665

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[comradekingu]

@1u Got fixed in GitLab upstream. Works now?

[1u]

Nice! Yes.

I just removed user @weblate as guest from our repo and pushed it manually in the hosted.weblate UI and it worked again. 🎉

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