Cannot open RStudio in Nix environment

[gueyenono]

I am currently reading the vignette: "e - Interactive use" and I am not able to use RStudio in my Nix environment despite following the instructions. I get the following error

TTY detected. Printing informational message about logging configuration. Logging configuration loaded from '/etc/xdg/xdg-pop:/etc/xdg/rstudio/logging.conf'. Logging to '/home/gueyenono/.local/share/rstudio/log/rdesktop.log'.
Gtk-Message: 00:30:19.763: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 00:30:19.763: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig for QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags<QSurfaceFormat::FormatOption>(), depthBufferSize -1, redBufferSize 1, greenBufferSize 1, blueBufferSize 1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize -1, samples -1, swapBehavior QSurfaceFormat::SingleBuffer, swapInterval 1, colorSpace QSurfaceFormat::DefaultColorSpace, profile  QSurfaceFormat::NoProfile)
qt.glx: qglx_findConfig: Failed to finding matching FBConfig for QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags<QSurfaceFormat::FormatOption>(), depthBufferSize -1, redBufferSize 1, greenBufferSize 1, blueBufferSize 1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize -1, samples -1, swapBehavior QSurfaceFormat::SingleBuffer, swapInterval 1, colorSpace QSurfaceFormat::DefaultColorSpace, profile  QSurfaceFormat::NoProfile)
Could not initialize GLX
Aborted (core dumped)

So I added the following to the system_pkgs argument of the rix::rix() function: libcraberra, libcraberra-gtk2 and libcraberra-gtk3 (which I found on <search.nixos.org>). However, this has not solved the issue. Here is my full function call:

rix(r_ver = "latest",
    r_pkgs = c("dplyr", "ggplot2"),
    system_pkgs = c("libcanberra", "libcanberra-gtk2", "libcanberra-gtk3"),
    git_pkgs = NULL,
    ide = "rstudio",
    project_path = here::here(),
    overwrite = TRUE,
    print = TRUE)

Here is my session info:

R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.10.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.10.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: system (glibc)

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.2

Thank you for your time in helping me solving this issue.

[b-rodrigues]

I've had a similar issue, and didn't think that it could be common... but open a terminal, and before dropping into the shell, run:

xhost + local:

then drop in the shell, and run rstudio. You shouldn't need the canberra libraries either, so maybe try to remove these as well.

[gueyenono]

Unfortunately, this solution did not work for me. I tried to rebuild the environment with and without the canberra modules with no success.

[b-rodrigues]

Ok, so could you drop into the shell and then run:

export QT_XCB_GL_INTEGRATION=none

and then rstudio? If this is more common than what I thought, we'll have to document this.

[gueyenono]

This solution works! I honestly think it would not hurt to document it.

I have a quick question. I get hit with an RStudio update notification (which makes sense). What happens if I decide to go ahead and update it? Will I just be able to use the updated version only for the duration of the current session.

[b-rodrigues]

The latest Rstudio is awaiting merge: NixOS/nixpkgs#289393

I think that if you would click on the notification to get the newest Rstudio, it likely would not work.

[b-rodrigues]

This solution works! I honestly think it would not hurt to document it.

Thanks, done with 4579e68