I have Rstudio server installed on CentOS 6, but I cannot login to Rstudio from the browser at http://localhost:8787 in browser. A popup titled "RStudio Initialization Error" appears with message "Unable to connect to service".
I have tried the following to remedy the error, but I have been without success:
$ sudo rstudio-server verify-installation
rstudio-server stop/waiting
rserver[19273]: ERROR system error 13 (Permission denied) [username=rstudio-server]; OCCURRED AT: core::Error server::launchSession(const std::string&, const core::system::Options&, PidType*) /root/rstudio/src/cpp/server/ServerSessionManager.cpp:223; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char* const*) /root/rstudio/src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:428
rstudio-server start/running, process 19287
$ id -u supstat1
502 (user name is more than 500)
$ sudo usermod -g rstudio_users supstat1
$ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables as root
and added the following line(s)
Add -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8787 -j ACCEPT
Add -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
$ sudo lsof | grep rstudio
rserver 9597 rstudio-server cwd DIR 8,1 4096 2 /
rserver 9597 rstudio-server rtd DIR 8,1 4096 2 /
rserver 9597 rstudio-server txt REG 8,1 7990044 553699 /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 156928 391944 /lib64/ld-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 1926800 391948 /lib64/libc-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 599384 396110 /lib64/libm-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 22536 391993 /lib64/libdl-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 145896 391952 /lib64/libpthread-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 91096 391950 /lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 1410824 564111 /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8e
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 327488 567429 /usr/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8e
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 124624 396127 /lib64/libselinux.so.1
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 113952 406171 /lib64/libresolv-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 18936 396128 /lib64/libuuid.so.1.3.0
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 93320 396113 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.4.7-20120601.so.1
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 17256 392157 /lib64/libcom_err.so.2.1
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 177520 392161 /lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.1
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 12592 406310 /lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.3
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 280520 392159 /lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 944712 391997 /lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 989840 536152 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 46368 406311 /lib64/libkrb5support.so.0.1
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 17520 406322 /lib64/libutil-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server mem REG 8,1 65928 391959 /lib64/libnss_files-2.12.so
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 0u CHR 1,3 0t0 3643 /dev/null
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 1u CHR 1,3 0t0 3643 /dev/null
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 2u CHR 1,3 0t0 3643 /dev/null
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 3r FIFO 0,8 0t0 37905 pipe
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 4w FIFO 0,8 0t0 37905 pipe
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 5u REG 0,9 0 3641 anon_inode
rserver 9597 rstudio-server 6u IPv4 37907 0t0 TCP *:msgsrvr (LISTEN)
When you login the rserver
process handles your authentication, and then fires up an rsession
process, which is the session you will use. The problem occurs when the rsession
process terminates due to an error.
If you have administrator privileges, you can debug the error by tracing the rserver
process and looking at the problem that caused rsession
to exit.
Here is how to do it.
First find the rserver
process-id.
ps auxw | grep studio
rstudio-server 7035 0.0 0.0 362488 4480 ? Ssl 16:37 0:01 /usr/local/lib/rstudio-server/bin/rserver
Note the second number that appears on the output of a row containing the string rstudio-server/bin/rserver
. In the case above the process-id is 7035.
Then trace rserver
sending the output to a file. The number after -p
should be the rserver
process-id. The funky -e
option is used to cut-down noise from Java's thread management.
sudo strace -f -e 'trace=!clock_gettime,gettimeofday,futex,timerfd_settime,epoll_wait,epoll_ctl' -p 7035 -o trace.txt
Login and wait for the error message to appear.
Stop the tracing by pressing ctrl-c
.
Open the file with your favourite editor, and search for the string exit_group
.
The lines above it are likely to indicate the error in rsession
. In my case it was a symbolic link from .rstudio
to a missing directory.
7529 mkdir("/home/dds/.rstudio", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
7529 stat("/home/dds/.rstudio", 0x7ffff37419b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
7529 write(2, "07 Feb 2015 16:46:53 [rsession-d"..., 395) = 395
7529 sendto(3, "<11>Feb 7 16:46:53 rsession-dds"..., 398, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 398
7529 exit_group(1)