Persistent Studio Github VM launching but timing out

[mzusev]

Describe the bug
I am following the example from this page of the documentation: Persistent Rstudio Github. The VM appears to launch as normal, but when I click on the external IP, the message is the site can't be reached, the address took too long to respond. I have tried several times, waiting up to 40 minutes for the image to install, but no luck.

To Reproduce
Follow the example shown in the documentation.

vm <- gce_vm(name="cloud-rstudio-demo", 
 predefined_type = "n1-standard-1", 
 template = "rstudio", 
 username = "michael", password = "demo", 
 dynamic_image = "gcr.io/gcer-public/persistent-rstudio")

Expected behavior
A persistent R Studio image.

Screenshots
CPU Usage when creating vm.

docker ps

**Session Info
Please run sessionInfo() and put results here:

R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19041)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 
[5] LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252 

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base 

other attached packages:
[1] googleComputeEngineR_0.3.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] rstudioapi_0.13 parallelly_1.26.1 magrittr_2.0.1 usethis_2.0.1 R6_2.5.0 rlang_0.4.11 fastmap_1.1.0 httr_1.4.2 
 [9] globals_0.14.0 tools_4.1.0 parallel_4.1.0 cli_2.5.0 googleAuthR_1.4.0 askpass_1.1 openssl_1.4.4 assertthat_0.2.1 
[17] digest_0.6.27 gargle_1.2.0 lifecycle_1.0.0 purrr_0.3.4 fs_1.5.0 codetools_0.2-18 curl_4.3.1 memoise_2.0.0 
[25] glue_1.4.2 cachem_1.0.5 compiler_4.1.0 jsonlite_1.7.2 future_1.21.0 renv_0.13.2 listenv_0.8.0 

Additional context
There are instructions in gce_vm_template documentation to use docker_run on dynamic images.Even though it is not part of the example, I tried the following with an error message:

docker_run(host = vm, image = "gcr.io/gcer-public/persistent-rstudio", user="michael")

Error:

Error in gce_ssh_addkeys(instance, key.pub = key.pub, key.private = key.private, : No SSH public/private key given and no google_compute_engine.pub not found.FALSE

Thanks in advanced!

[MarkEdmondson1234]

Thanks, strange bug. I think the firewall is not being opened correctly. Do you see the same issues with other templates?

[mzusev]

No other issue with other templates:

vm <- gce_vm("cloud-rstudio-demo-test", 
 predefined_type = "n1-standard-1", 
 template = "rstudio", 
 username = "michael", password = "demo")

This works as expected.

Any ideas on how to open the firewall correctly?

[mzusev]

A colleague found this in the logs:

"Not continuing with pull after error: error pulling image configuration: error parsing HTTP 400 response body: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value: \"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><Error><Code>UserProjectMissing</Code><Message>Bucket is a requester pays bucket but no user project provided.</Message><Details>Bucket is Requester Pays bucket but no billing project id provided for non-owner.</Details></Error>\""

[MarkEdmondson1234]

Ah ok, that makes sense as I just changed that due to rising costs. But I will change it back for now until I can figure out how to handle it. Try it again in 5 mins.

[mzusev]

That worked. Thank you!