Hi there,
I’m a new ShinyProxy user, retracing the steps a colleague has made. He’s on sabbatical at the moment. We currently use the open version of shiny-server and he was looking into migrating to ShinyProxy at some point, but at the time transfer of knowledge didn’t seem necessary/feasible. And then time went by and I could really use a dashboard with user authentication…
Right before he left he mailed me saying he got our dashboard to work with Docker. I’m unsure if that meant he got it working all the way. When I try to run the dashboard with shinyproxy I can visit the login page, succesfully log in with simple authentication (not the default tesla user, but users my co-worker created) and select the dashboard in question. After that, however, I get a “Container did not respond in time” error. I ran it manually in a Docker with sudo docker run -p 3838:3838 appname-image R -e 'shiny::runApp("/root/appname")'
and it showed no error messages.
After some sleuthing I found that the shinyproxy.service failed. Typing
systemctl status shinyproxy
gives the following output:
shinyproxy.service - ShinyProxy Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/shinyproxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2020-04-22 13:01:06 UTC; 4s ago Process: 72722 ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /opt/shinyproxy/shinyproxy.jar (code=exited, status=217/USER) Main PID: 72722 (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Restarting the service with
sudo systemctl restart shinyproxy.service
makes no difference.
The /opt/shinyproxy/shinyproxy.jar file exists, the /user/bin/java file does not. I’ve googled the “code=exited, status=217/USER” part, and found: “The error 217 indicate the user did not exist at the time the service tried to start”. I’ve looked into the /etc/system/systemd/shinyproxy.service file, and it says user is shinyproxy.
I’m currently out of ideas. Anyone know how to get the shinyproxy service to work again?