Sonarqube doesn't start on Centos 8

SonarQube
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  • versions used (SonarQube: 8.4)
  • error observed sonar.log:
    ‘’‘sudo tail -f /opt/sonarqube/logs/sonar.log 2020.09.14 10:41:55 INFO app[o.s.a.es.EsSettings] Elasticsearch listening on /127.0.0.1:9001
    2020.09.14 10:41:55 INFO app[o.s.a.ProcessLauncherImpl] Launch process[[key=‘es’, ipcIndex=1, logFilenamePrefix=es]] from [/opt/sonarqube/elasticsearch]: /opt/sonarqube/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
    2020.09.14 10:41:55 INFO app[o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Waiting for Elasticsearch to be up and running
    Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
    2020.09.14 10:41:55 INFO app[o.e.p.PluginsService] no modules loaded
    2020.09.14 10:41:55 INFO app[o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.transport.Netty4Plugin]
    2020.09.14 10:41:57 WARN app[o.s.a.p.AbstractManagedProcess] Process exited with exit value [es]: 1
    2020.09.14 10:41:57 INFO app[o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Process[es] is stopped
    2020.09.14 10:41:57 INFO app[o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] SonarQube is stopped’’’

‘’‘sudo tail -f /opt/sonarqube/logs/es.log
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:116) ~[elasticsearch-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:93) ~[elasticsearch-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:103) ~[elasticsearch-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:333) ~[elasticsearch-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) ~[elasticsearch-6.8.0.jar:6.8.0]’’’

Java version
‘’‘java version “11.0.8” 2020-07-14 LTS
Java™ SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.8+10-LTS)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.8+10-LTS, mixed mode)’’’

Postgresql version: 10

There is no ce.log or web.log file present, I haven’t been able to start the sonarqube, can anyone help me with this?

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Helloi @shivamprakhar and welcome to the community :wave:

i think you already posted the answer to your question :slight_smile:

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Hi Tobias,
(facepalm) I didn’t see it until I mentioned it here. Thanks for this. Now I am searching for how to fix that issue, would you have any reference by chance?

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happens to the best of us :slight_smile:
sure. you have to create a new user and run sonarqube as this user. i would suggest to do this via systemd, where you can find more information about here

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Although I have created a user account for sonarqube which has all the file permissions for the sonarqube direcotry, not sure if you are referring to add a new user named elasticsearch for this.

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how do you try to start sonarqube? the file permissions are one thing but you will need to actually execute the start script as this user

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I switch to user account sonarqube and then run the script:
$su - sonarqube
/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start
Starting SonarQube…
Started SonarQube.
and when I check the es.log I get the same error, I tried this way too, sorry that I didn’t make it clear in the first thread.

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can you post the permissions of this user you created? also did you try to use the systemd service as documented?

[Unit]
Description=SonarQube service
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=sonarqube
Group=sonarqube
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStart=/bin/nohup /usr/bin/java -Xms32m -Xmx32m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar /opt/sonarqube/lib/sonar-application-8.4.jar
StandardOutput=syslog
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitNPROC=8192
TimeoutStartSec=5
Restart=always
SuccessExitStatus=143

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Thanks a ton Tobias, I ran it as a systemd service and it started running. Not sure where I messed up the permission that it didn’t run when I tried to run it as the sonarqube user.

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glad that this is working for you now :+1:

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