Code-server: Stuck starting shared process

Created on 9 Mar 2019 · 7Comments · Source: cdr/code-server

code-server version: v1.31.1
OS Version: ubuntu

Steps to Reproduce

code-server --allow-http --no-auth .
INFO  code-server v1.31.1-100
INFO  Additional documentation: http://github.com/codercom/code-server
INFO  Initializing {"data-dir":"/home/preston/.code-server","working-dir":".","log-dir":"/home/preston/.code-server/logs/20190308231846670"}
INFO  Starting webserver... {"host":"0.0.0.0","port":8443}
WARN  No certificate specified. This could be insecure.
WARN  Documentation on securing your setup: https://coder.com/docs
WARN  Launched without authentication.
INFO
INFO  Started (click the link below to open):
INFO  http://localhost:8443/
INFO
INFO  Starting shared process [1/5]...

It sits here forever.

Source

prestonvanloon

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Most helpful comment

@sr229, I wouldn't consider this issue solved until it logs some error to tell the user that they don't have net-tools installed.

I am unblocked by installed net-tools via apt-get. Thanks

prestonvanloon on 12 Mar 2019

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Same problem for Archlinux, it stucks here, eats up memory slowly and finally OOM crashes (in a few hours).
Reproduced on a fresh installed Archlinux with code-server v1.31.1-100 from GitHub release.

Edit: after digging into the code, I find that code-server has a dependency on node-netstat, which relies on netstat utility on the system. However, Archlinux doesn't install netstat by default.
After installing the net-tools from pacman (and another resolved issue), I finally get code-server running.
https://github.com/codercom/code-server/blob/cded51f6500fa39915cb9554d59d8ce2bb831de5/packages/server/src/portScanner.ts#L2

yzwduck on 9 Mar 2019

@prestonvanloon, Hey there, you need net-tools to make code-server work. This is a hard dependency, so you must install it.

Mark this closed as this is already solved by #44.

sr229 on 11 Mar 2019

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I tested that under CentOS 7, the problem persisted even if packages with net-tools were installed.Because GCC and dependency library versions are too low, high versions are required. The problem can be solved by recompiling and installing GCC above version 5(The highest version is GCC is 4.8 on my machine)