Operation Not Permitted Error from Rocker RStudio Image on M1 MacBook

[kuang-da]

The current container cannot run the RStudio server. It would show with the following error.

[rserver] ERROR system error 1 (Operation not permitted); OCCURRED AT rstudio::core::Error rstudio::core::system::posix::{anonymous}::restorePrivilegesImpl(uid_t) src/cpp/shared_core/system/PosixSystem.cpp:66; LOGGED FROM: rstudio::core::Error rstudio::core::system::launchChildProcess(std::__cxx11::string, std::__cxx11::string, rstudio::core::system::ProcessConfig, rstudio::core::system::ProcessConfigFilter, PidType*) src/cpp/core/system/PosixSystem.cpp:2168

[kuang-da]

The container can be accessed from CLI so our buildx in fact works as expected.

So I suspect the problems lay in the layer from Rocker Project. They have not fully supported ARM CPU yet.

[kuang-da]

Related discussion 1
https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/issues/474

[kuang-da]

Related discussion 2
rocker-org/rocker#429

[kuang-da]

Here are some previous endeavors to build rstudio from r-base, which has ARM images, instead of Rocker.

• https://github.com/elbamos/rstudio-m1
• https://github.com/JBGruber/rocker-arm
• https://github.com/edgyR/edgyR-containers

We may need to do the same thing...