Dear Pirate, Thank you for fixing this bug. I just noticed one thing in the changelog:
> gitlab (8.8.2+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium > . > * Symlink /run/gitlab/cache to /var/lib/gitlab/cache (or /run gets filled > up) If this really is cache (which can be regenerated if it is lost), then it should go in /var/cache, not /var/lib. Best wishes, Julian