Rstudio-server unable to connect to service

Question

While login to Rstudio Server with my user name and password, I received the following

Rstudio Initilization Error 
unable to connect to service

I installed Rstudio Server in the following way:

apt-get install gdebi-core r-base r-base-dev 
wget -c https://download2.rstudio.org/rstudio-server-0.99.489-amd64.deb
sudo gdebi rstudio-server-0.99.489-amd64.deb

sudo usermod -a -G rstudio lorencm
sudo service rstudio-server start

id  lorencm
uid=1000(lorencm) gid=1000(lorencm) groups=1000(lorencm),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),108(lpadmin),111(sambashare),999(docker),1001(rstudio)

What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

In my experience this might happen because of permission to your home directory or you don't have any home directory. possibly created by defauly with no home directory. to solve this, just create a home directory for the username that you are tryin to use or use an exisiting username with valide home directory

usermod -md /home/username username 

or just create one

sudo mkdir /home/username
sudo chown -R username /home/username

Good luck