Renovate not making PRs

[zachkirsch]

How are you running Renovate?

A Mend.io-hosted app

Which platform you running Renovate on?

GitHub.com

Which version of Renovate are you using?

No response

Please tell us more about your question or problem

Sorry in advance if this isn't the right place to ask this kind of question.

I added a renovate.json to our repo yesterday, added the renovate app to our github org, and enabled "Automated PRs" in the mend.io UI. I configured an update for Tuesday mornings, but didn't see a PR come in this morning. Any idea how I can debug this?

Config:

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": ["config:recommended"],
  "enabled": false,
  "vulnerabilityAlerts": {
    "enabled": true,
    "labels": ["security"]
  },
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "enabled": true,
      "groupName": "oxlint",
      "matchPackageNames": ["oxlint", "oxlint-tsgolint"],
      "schedule": ["after 5am and before 7am on Tuesday"],
      "labels": ["dependencies"]
    }
  ]
}

Logs (if relevant)

No response

[jamietanna]

In the most recent job (job ID 019cea98-0ae5-709c-bf0d-5ba0ad4a2dd8):

INFO: Repository finished
{
  "cloned": false,
  "durationMs": 23752,
  "result": "disabled-by-config",
  "status": "disabled",
  "enabled": false
}

This is because you're setting enabled=false - if you see the docs, setting that at the top-level will disable the repo altogether

Are you trying to disable everything but your oxlint group?

[zachkirsch]

No worries, just making sure!

I tried it on our repo but still don't see any renovate PRs coming through :( Any ideas?

(Also, if there's a way ago debugging this myself please let me know, sorry for bugging you about this!)

Our renovate.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": ["config:recommended"],
  "vulnerabilityAlerts": {
    "enabled": true,
    "labels": ["security"]
  },
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "description": "Disable other package updates by default",
      "enabled": false
    },
    {
      "enabled": true,
      "groupName": "oxlint",
      "matchPackageNames": ["oxlint", "oxlint-tsgolint"],
      "schedule": ["after 5am and before 7am on Thursday"],
      "labels": ["dependencies"]
    }
  ]
}

[jamietanna]

Ah, so if you load up https://developer.mend.io/github/Ferry-Health you'll see that this repo is marked as disabled, because last time it was scanned, the enabled: false disabled it for future processing

Via it'll next run in the "monthly" job, which is a few days away - but in the meantime you can trigger a job manually against the repo from the Mend UI, and that'll then start processing, and update its scheduling status

[zachkirsch]

Amazing, I'll give that a try. thanks so much @jamietanna!

[zachkirsch]

@jamietanna i'm seeing this in the job logs, it's just a warning, do I need to worry about this?

{
  "error": {
    "validationSource": "renovate.json",
    "validationError": "The renovate configuration file contains some invalid settings",
    "validationMessage": "packageRules[0]: Each packageRule must contain at least one match* or exclude* selector. Rule: {\"description\":[\"Disable other package updates by default\"],\"enabled\":false}",
    "message": "config-validation",
    "stack": "Error: config-validation\n    at mergeRenovateConfig (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/repository/init/merge.ts:221:19)\n    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:104:5)\n    at getRepoConfig (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/repository/init/config.ts:14:12)\n    at initRepo (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/repository/init/index.ts:60:12)\n    at instrument.attributes (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/repository/index.ts:83:18)\n    at renovateRepository (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/repository/index.ts:57:42)\n    at instrument.attributes (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/global/index.ts:219:11)\n    at start (file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/workers/global/index.ts:204:7)\n    at file:///usr/local/renovate/lib/renovate.ts:25:22"
  }
}

I could add a match selector that applies to everything, will the oxlint rule still take precedent in that case though?

[jamietanna]

Yeah sorry, given that's invalid config it'll need to be corrected - a matchPackages: ["*"] should work 🤞