Set up rstudio-server on macOS - r

I want to set up rstudio-server on an iMac with support for multiple users and remote login. I followed the steps in the INSTALL tutorial: I built the source, set up the configuration files and the launchd daemon. At first, it works fine, but after some time, I get these warnings/errors when I plot:
2022-06-09 08:02:29.438 rsession[3050:139329] XType: failed to connect - Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.fonts was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 3 - No such process." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.fonts was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 3 - No such process.}
2022-06-09 08:02:29.438 rsession[3050:139329] Font server protocol version mismatch (expected:5 got:0), falling back to local fonts
2022-06-09 08:02:29.438 rsession[3050:139329] XType: unable to make a connection to the font daemon!
2022-06-09 08:02:29.438 rsession[3050:139329] XType: XTFontStaticRegistry is enabled as fontd is not available.
Then I can't plot any more unless I restart R and re-run my code. Do you know what could be the issue? I could not get any help when opening an issue on the rstudio-server github since MacOS is not officially supported.
I was also looking at running rstudio-server via docker, but I couldn't find a good way to map the user namespace from macOS to the container.
Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: It seems I was able to solve the issue by launching the fontd daemon with:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.fontd.useragent.plist

This seems like an issue with the MacOS font daemon, not with RStudio itself.
Someone reported a similar issue on PhantomJS. Rebooting resolved it for them.
This answer reported the same error for a different build, and they were able to resolve it by installing the correct "Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority" in Keychain:
The one I had had an expiration date of February 2023. I deleted that one and went here, downloaded the one called "Worldwide Developer Relations - G3 (Expiring 02/20/2030 00:00:00 UTC)", then retried the build and it worked.

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Telepresence Connection Error - Traffic Manager version unsupported, must be 2.4.5 or higher while it is 2.6.5

I have started to face this problem. While trying to connect, I am facing an error stating that my traffic-manager version is 2.1.5 and it should be at least 2.4.5.
"telepresence connect" command checks for new versions and modifies it if there is any new version exists. So I am thinking that started to create a problem. Because I was using it as normal.
When I check the connector.log file these two lines create the problem.
connector/session : Existing Traffic Manager 2.6.5 not owned by cli or does not need upgrade, will not modify
connector/session : failed to connect to root daemon: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = unsupported traffic-manager version 2.1.5. Minimum supported version is 2.4.5
So somehow I have two versions now while checking for the update it hits 2.6.5 but while trying to run it tries with 2.1.5. Trying to uninstall telepresence but it also faces the same problem and I couldn't locate and delete traffic-manager 2.1.5. My OS is Windows 11.
Because of that, I am kind of blocked with my tests. Any help will be well appreciated. Thanks!
After asking the question, a new version arrived, if anyone encountered this problem, please update telepresence to 2.6.6. It is fixed now.

jupyterhub fails to spawn server with systemdspawner

I am trying to run jupyterhub on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server. My idea is to run python/jupyterhub in a conda virtual environment as a system service. As I want to be able to limit the resources available to individual users I installed the systemdspawner.
After installing everything and starting the jupyterhub service I can login through my web browser. However, when trying to start the server the spawner stucks and after a while I get an error message saying "Spawn failed: Timeout"
in journalctl I can see the following messages:
User logged in: me 302 POST /hub/login?next= -> /hub/spawn (me#::ffff:[my IP address]) 59.42ms
Adding role server to token: <APIToken('93c8...', user='me', client_id='jupyterhub')
Creating oauth client jupyterhub-user-me
pam_loginuid(login:session): Error writing /proc/self/loginuid: Operation not permitted
pam_loginuid(login:session): set_loginuid failed
pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user me by (uid=0)
Failed to open PAM session for me: [PAM Error 14] Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session
Disabling PAM sessions from now on. user:me
Unit jupyter-me-singleuser in a failed state. Resetting state.
Disclaimer: My Jupyter/Python installation is replacing an former installation that was setup by someone else and got messed up a bit during time. I tried to remove everything related and start with a clean installation from scratch. However, as I had very little documentation about the old setup there is a certain risk that there might be some left-overs of the previous installation that may cause trouble.
Any ideas?
Solved it out myself. In the end the PAM related messages seem to be non-critical and were not related to the timeout at all. Instead I found a mistake in /etc/systemd/system/jupyterhub.service, where the PATH variable was not including the bin directory of my miniconda installation.

install.keras() in RStudio fails with http connection error

I've been trying to install and run keras in RStudio (Windows) in vain.
i installed keras package using normal package "keras"
(didn't use github)
I've installed latest python (3.6) and Anaconda.
then i use
> library(keras)
> install.keras()
and i get this error:
Creating r-tensorflow conda environment for TensorFlow installation...
Fetching package metadata ... CondaHTTPError: HTTP 000 CONNECTION
FAILED for url
https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/win-64/repodata.json.bz2
Elapsed: -
An HTTP error occurred when trying to retrieve this URL. HTTP errors
are often intermittent, and a simple retry will get you on your way.
ConnectTimeout(MaxRetryError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='repo.continuum.io',
port=443): Max retries exceeded with url:
/pkgs/main/win-64/repodata.json.bz2 (Caused by
ConnectTimeoutError(, 'Connection to repo.continuum.io timed out.
(connect timeout=9.15)'))",),)
Error: Error 1 occurred creating conda environment r-tensorflow In
addition: Warning message: running command
'"C:\PROGRA~3\ANACON~1\Scripts\conda.exe" "create" "--yes" "--name"
"r-tensorflow" "python=3.6"' had status 1
I've looked up everywhere on the web and can't figure out how to install keras and tensorflow properly. Using latest version of R (3.4.2)
Every method fails somewhere.
just to add to misery, i've also tried:
> devtools::install_github("rstudio/keras")
and i get this error:
Installation failed: Timeout was reached: Connection timed out after
10015 milliseconds
I am not behind any authenticated proxies. So, after multiple failure, i just downloaded the zip file from github and manually installed it using the zip file.
i also tried install.packages("keras") and that didn't give me any error either.
when i call the library i don't get any errors (as shown above)
UPDATE: I was able to install and use the package very easily on another computer that doesn't have python/anaconda installed on it already.
UPDATE 2: my proxy does not need authentication and there is no https_proxy either.
OK,, FINALLY found a solution.
Turns out RStudio uses a lot of default proxy settings, so i needed to change all that and set up my own proxy settings.
First step:
Rstudio --> Tools --> Global Options --> packages --> uncheck both "Use secure download method for HTTP" and "Use Internet Explorer librayr/proxy for HTTP"
Second step, in RStudio type:
> file.edit('./.Renviron')
Either an empty file or some file with already existing proxy settings will open. (Mine was empty). Then I included the following two:
http_proxy=http://myusename:password#proxy.server.com:port/
https_proxy=http://myusename:password#proxy.server.com:port/
(a few notes: I didn't have a https_proxy setting but I still needed to use the http_proxy details for my https_proxy setting. This was one of the culprits for my issue. Also, I needed to include the username:password even though my proxy doesn't need secure authentication. Same thing goes with the port. Port number had to be included, otherwise it wouldn't work.
Step 3:
Saved the new changes in .Renviron file and restarted RStudio.
I checked my proxy settings in RStudio after restart by typing:
> Sys.getenv("http_proxy")
> Sys.getenv("https_proxy")
The first few times i did this i realised that the proxy settings were not being changed in RStudio because i was editing the wrong .Renviron file. So, it's best to use file.edit('~/.Renviron') in step 2 to make sure it's the right file.
After all this, when i ran install.keras(), it installed successfully, including installing Tensorflow. Again, initially i had skipped step 1 so keras started being installed but it failed at installing tensorflow.
It was only going through all the steps that i was able to install both keras and tensorflow successfully over a proxy. Hope this helps.
Uninstalling Anaconda3 and installing Anaconda2 (i.e. Python 2.7) did the trick for me: https://www.anaconda.com/download/

Couchbase 2.2 - Cannot connect to console after installation

I have installed Couchbase 2.2.0 for Windows 7 64 bits. I installed it using the default options. The service gets installed and I can stop/start or restart it without errors. However, I cannot connect to the management console on port 8091.
I've found some posts on how to deal with this but they all relate to older versions of couchbase and reference files/options I can't find in version 2.2 (for example this post : Unable to connect to http://localhost:8091/index.html).
When I try netstat -an -p tcp I can't see any service listening on port 8091 so I suspect something goes wrong during startup.
Looking in the couchbase log in /var/lib/couchbase/logs I can see some errors but they don't make sense to me.
[error_logger:error,2014-02-11T17:13:16.536,babysitter_of_ns_1#127.0.0.1:error_logger<0.6.0>:ale_error_logger_handler:log_msg:76]** Generic server <0.233.0> terminating
** Last message in was {die,{abnormal,3}}
** When Server state == {state,ns_server,5000,
{1392,135189,391066},
undefined,infinity}
** Reason for termination ==
** {abnormal,3}
[ns_server:debug,2014-02-11T17:13:16.536,babysitter_of_ns_1#127.0.0.1:<0.235.0>:supervisor_cushion:init:39]starting ns_port_server with delay of 5000
[error_logger:error,2014-02-11T17:13:16.536,babysitter_of_ns_1#127.0.0.1:error_logger<0.6.0>:ale_error_logger_handler:log_report:72]
=========================CRASH REPORT=========================
crasher:
initial call: supervisor_cushion:init/1
pid: <0.233.0>
registered_name: []
exception exit: {abnormal,3}
in function gen_server:terminate/6
ancestors: [child_ns_server_sup,ns_babysitter_sup,<0.58.0>]
messages: []
links: [<0.73.0>]
dictionary: []
trap_exit: true
status: running
heap_size: 2584
stack_size: 24
reductions: 2365
neighbours:
The windows firewall is running but, since I installed the same version of couchbase on another machine with the same Windows version without troubles I can't imagine that the firewall is causing this trouble.
I'm out of options though, I have no idea why I can't get this to work.
In the meantime, I have uninstalled 2.2 and tried falling back to 2.1 (with the same result) and moving forward to 2.5 (with the same result). In all cases I turned of antivirus software and stopped the Windows firewall to eliminate this cause.
Thanks to the nice people at Couchbase.com, the problem has been solved.
Please refer to :
https://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB-10245
https://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/MB-8760
The solution is to reinstall couchbase in a location without spaces in the path. Due to a bug, spaces in the installation path lead to trouble.

pgpool-II connection pooling - ERROR: "MD5" authentication with pgpool failed

Using the following for just connection pooling no master_slave or replication: rhel 6, postgresql 9.1.9, & pgpool-II 3.1.3 (also tried 3.2.5)
Followed solution suggested in http://www.pgpool.net/pipermail/pgpool-general/2013-May/001773.html
After following the instructions for MD5 I also tried setting both pg_hba.conf and pool_hba.conf to trust for local and subnet, but still get the following error when attempting to connect to the pool locally:
ERROR: "MD5" authentication with pgpool failed for user foo
Tried locally on Fedora 18 with pg9.2 and pgpool from Fedora repo and worked right out of the box.
At the end of all routes suggested everywhere I could find.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
After having hit the same problem the solution was to change ownership of the pool_passwd file to postgres.
Even though this file has a 644 permission, if owner isn't postgres you'll always get the aforementioned error. I guess this file's owner and the user running pgpool must match.
I'm running PosgreSQL 9.2 and pgpool-II 3.3.2, BTW.

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