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rserve package

Rserve does not start (not found)

Bug #1325325 reported by Igor Drozdov on 2014-06-01

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Affecting:	rserve (Ubuntu)
Filed here by:	Igor Drozdov
When:	2014-06-01
Confirmed:	2014-10-25

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Bug Description

Expected way to run Rserve package

$ R CMD Rserve

produces error message.

/usr/lib/R/bin/Rcmd: 62: exec: Rserve: not found

This may be due to invalid symbolic links in `/usr/lib/R/bin`

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 1 23:22 Rserve -> ../site-library/Rserve/Rserve
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 1 23:22 Rserve.dbg -> ../site-library/Rserve/Rserve.dbg

which need to be changed to

../site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve
../site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve.dbg

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: r-cran-rserve 1.7-3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jun 1 09:03:34 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-29 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326)
SourcePackage: rserve
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Igor Drozdov (idrozdov) wrote on 2014-06-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (10.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (106 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-10-25:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in rserve (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

pavlos (pavlos-psychology) wrote on 2014-10-25:

Indeed, fixing the broken symlinks did the job.

agent 8131 (agent-8131) wrote on 2015-04-02:

Commands to fix:

cd /usr/lib/R/bin/

ln -sf ../site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserv

ln -sf ../site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve.db

Daniel Neel (dneelyep) wrote on 2015-12-25:

Here's the modified commands I had to run, based on the comment from @agent-8131, on Ubuntu 14.04:

cd /usr/lib/R/bin/
sudo ln -sf ../site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve
sudo ln -sf ../site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve.dbg

After running these, Rserve worked for me.

Daniel Neel (dneelyep) wrote on 2015-12-25:

Also, if anyone's using Ansible by chance, here are some playbook entries I'm using to install Rserve and work around this problem:

- name: Install Rserve
apt: pkg=r-cran-rserve state=latest

    # === Fix Ubuntu's broken Rserve package ===
    # Ubuntu's rserve package doesn't set symlinks properly.
    # See here for more info: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rserve/+bug/1325325
    - file: src=/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve dest=/usr/lib/R/bin/Rserve owner=root state=link force=yes
    - file: src=/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rserve/libs/Rserve.dbg dest=/usr/lib/R/bin/Rserve.dbg owner=root state=link force=yes