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Problem Description

My stacks are no longer automatically updating since I deleted the user who created them. It is still possible to update them manually. They are configured to update using the GitOps polling mechanism.

Expected Behavior

Stacks continue to update automatically

Actual Behavior

Stacks don't update and there are errors in the logs.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a stack, enable GitOps
2. Delete the user who created the stack
3. Trigger an update
4. The update won't happen

Portainer logs or screenshots

2024/01/25 11:59AM WRN github.com/portainer/portainer/api/stacks/deployments/deploy.go:68 > cannot auto update a stack, stack author user is missing | author=myauthorname endpoint_id=2 stack=mystackname stack_id=24
2024/01/25 11:59AM ERR github.com/portainer/portainer/api/scheduler/scheduler.go:113 > job returned an error, it will be rescheduled | error="stack's 24 author myauthorname is missing"

Portainer version

2.19.4

Portainer Edition

Community Edition (CE)

Platform and Version

Docker version 24.0.6, build ed223bc

OS and Architecture

Linux host-1 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1 (2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Browser

n/a

What command did you use to deploy Portainer?

version: '3.8'

services:
  portainer:
    image: portainer/portainer-ce:latest
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - portainer_data:/data:rw
    environment:
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.docker.network=traefik-ingress
      - traefik.http.routers.portainer.rule=Host(`xxx`)
      - traefik.http.routers.portainer.entrypoints=https
      - traefik.http.routers.portainer.tls=true
      - traefik.http.services.portainer.loadbalancer.server.port=9000
      - traefik.http.routers.portainer.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
      - traefik.http.routers.portainer.middlewares=secHeaders@file
    networks:
      - traefik-ingress

volumes:
  portainer_data:

networks:
  traefik-ingress:
    external: true

Additional Information

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