Author identity unknown

[Sebclem]

After ugrading renvoate docker i have this error in my logs

WARN: Error updating branch (repository=sebclem/ansible-cicd-stack, branch=renovate/drone-drone-runner-docker-1.x)
       "err": {
         "task": {
           "commands": [
             "-c",
             "core.abbrev=40",
             "commit",
             "-m",
             ":arrow_up: Update dependency drone/drone-runner-docker to v1.8.2",
             "--no-verify"
           ],
           "format": "utf-8",
           "parser": "[function]"
         },
         "message": "Author identity unknown\n\n*** Please tell me who you are.\n\nRun\n\n  git config --global user.email \"you@example.com\"\n  git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"\n\nto set your account's default identity.\nOmit --global to set the identity only in this repository.\n\nfatal: empty ident name (for <ronovate@seb6596.ovh>) not allowed\n",
         "stack": "Error: Author identity unknown\n\n*** Please tell me who you are.\n\nRun\n\n  git config --global user.email \"you@example.com\"\n  git config --global user.name \"Your Name\"\n\nto set your account's default identity.\nOmit --global to set the identity only in this repository.\n\nfatal: empty ident name (for <ronovate@seb6596.ovh>) not allowed\n\n    at Object.action (/usr/src/app/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/plugins/error-detection.plugin.ts:38:28)\n    at PluginStore.exec (/usr/src/app/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/plugins/plugin-store.ts:24:29)\n    at /usr/src/app/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:114:40\n    at new Promise (<anonymous>)\n    at GitExecutorChain.handleTaskData (/usr/src/app/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:111:14)\n    at GitExecutorChain.<anonymous> (/usr/src/app/node_modules/simple-git/src/lib/runners/git-executor-chain.ts:88:40)\n    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)\n    at fulfilled (/usr/src/app/node_modules/simple-git/dist/cjs/index.js:55:24)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)"
       }

The last working version seams to be 32.91-slim (I roll back to this version and the error is gone)

My docker command:

docker run --pull always --group-add 0 --rm -v "/etc/renovate/config.js:/usr/src/app/config.js" -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" -v /tmp:/tmp -u "1000:997" --env GITHUB_COM_TOKEN="xxxx" --env LOG_LEVEL=info renovate/renovate:32.91-slim renovate

My config:

module.exports = {
    endpoint: 'https://git.xxx.fr/api/v1',
    token: 'xxxxx',
    platform: 'gitea',
    autodiscover: true,
    onboardingConfig: {
      extends: ['config:base'],
    }
  };

[viceice]

Your gitea account is probably missing the email or username properties.

We are using /user api to learn the username and email.

renovate/lib/modules/platform/gitea/gitea-helper.ts

Lines 205 to 211 in 953ef18

	export async function getCurrentUser(
	options?: GiteaHttpOptions
	): Promise<User> {
	const url = `${API_PATH}/user`;
	const res = await giteaHttp.getJson<User>(url, options);
	return res.body;
	}

renovate/lib/modules/platform/gitea/index.ts

Lines 196 to 199 in e5c6f38

	const user = await helper.getCurrentUser({ token });
	gitAuthor = `${user.full_name ?? user.username} <${user.email}>`;
	botUserID = user.id;
	botUserName = user.username;

So please validate the gitea account for recent changes.

[Sebclem]

Thanks, my renovate account was missing Full name, fixed 👌

[mikaello]

Just for reference: I got a similar error message, but it only appeared in the "onboarding" MRs (I use GitLab):

Committer identity unknown

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got '1002500000@renovate-55496cb9f4-4gh4b.(none)')

The solution was to add the gitAuthor config property.

[viceice]

it's because your token isn't allowed to read the user endpoint API, or your user isn't configured correct on gitlab