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@petya No I'm still struggling with it. In the meanwhile I am using a singularity container until @bluerider or someone from the community can help us with this situation.

@mehrad Did you ever figure out what caused your issue with [description: User not found., user-value: ]? I have the same issue.

I get the following error and don't know how to solve it. Any help is much appreciated:

rstudio-server verify-installation

22 Sep 2021 11:32:20 [rserver] ERROR Could not change permissions for specified 'server-data-dir' - the directory (/var/run/rstudio-server) must be writeable by all users and have the sticky bit set; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char* const*) src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:661

22 Sep 2021 11:32:20 [rserver] ERROR system error 1 (Operation not permitted) [path: /var/run/rstudio-server]; OCCURRED AT rstudio::core::Error rstudio::core::{anonymous}::changeFileModeImpl(const string&, mode_t) src/cpp/shared_core/FilePath.cpp:311; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char* const*) src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:662

I have tried the following and it didn't help:

cd /var/run
sudo chmod -R 775 rstudio-server
sudo chown -R rstudio:rstudio rstudio-server
sudo chmod +t rstudio-server

Update: After reading some forums I ended with running the verify-installation with sudo (which I'm not comfortable with):

sudo rstudio-server verify-installation

22 Sep 2021 11:59:10 [rserver] WARNING Running as root user is not recommended!; LOGGED FROM: virtual rstudio::core::ProgramStatus rstudio::server::Options::read(int, char* const*, std::ostream&) src/cpp/server/ServerOptions.cpp:275

22 Sep 2021 11:59:10 [rserver] ERROR system error 2 (No such file or directory) [description: User not found., user-value: ]; OCCURRED AT rstudio::core::Error rstudio::core::system::User::Impl::populateUser(rstudio::core::system::User::Impl::GetPasswdFunc<T>&, T) [with T = const char* rstudio::core::system::User::Impl::GetPasswdFunc<T> = std::function<int(const char*, passwd*, char*, long unsigned int, passwd**)>] src/cpp/shared_core/system/User.cpp:68; LOGGED FROM: int main(int, char* const*) src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:625

Based on [description: User not found., user-value: ] it seems that some config file issue (which I don't have any for Rstudio server but I have Rstudio desktop installed (rstudio-desktop-bin AUR). I have checked that a user named rstudio do exist in the /etc/passwd.

@ggranga Just updated to the most recent version. Sorry for the delay.

This package is out of date since 3 months, please update or disown.

PKGBUILD file for version 1.4.1717.

# Previous Maintainer: Peter Reschenhofer < peterreschenhofer at gmail dot com >
# Current Maintainer : Mark Lee <mark@markelee.com>
# Contributor: Familia < carlosfamilia at gmail dot com >
pkgname=rstudio-server-bin
pkgver=1.4.1717
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A integrated development environment (IDE) for R (binary version from RStudio official website)"
arch=('x86_64')
license=('GPL')
url="http://www.rstudio.org/"
depends=('r>=3.0.1' 'glibc>=2.7' 'libedit' 'psmisc' 'openssl-1.0')
conflicts=('rstudio-server' 'rstudio-server-git')
sha256sums=('ce2c6d5423823716bbd6c2d819812ed98b6ab3ea96bcfdbc6d310fd1c1286b17'
            '24b0545aa2a576c7d7480c0ef77d7641e2ebaadae856fd2a18f57871bd25fd88'
            '993a3096c2b113e6800f2abbd5d4233ebf1a97eef423990d3187d665d3490b92')
provides=("rstudio-server=${pkgver}")
#options=(!strip)
source=(#"https://download2.rstudio.org/server/debian9/x86_64/rstudio-server-${pkgver}-amd64.deb"
        "https://download2.rstudio.org/server/bionic/amd64/rstudio-server-${pkgver}-amd64.deb"
        "rstudio-server.service"
        "rstudio")
install="${pkgname}".install

package() {
    msg "Converting debian package..."

    cd "${srcdir}"
    #tar zxpf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    chmod 755 $(find ${pkgdir}/usr -type d)

    install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/etc/rstudio"
    install -m644 -D "rstudio-server.service" "${pkgdir}/etc/systemd/system/rstudio-server.service"
    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/etc/pam.d"
    install -m644 -D "rstudio" "${pkgdir}/etc/pam.d/"
}

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/postgresql-libs/ should be added as dependency, on a fresh arch install rstudio-server fails to start because libpq.so.5. is missing.

@vielleich Can you describe the error you are facing?

@maximtrp @bluerider this problem still remains. in my installation rserver now runs under rstudio (this user already existed (maybe from earlier installations)) by specifying the user as startup option in the service file:

/usr/bin/rserver --server-daemonize=0 --server-user=rstudio