SonarQube failed to start in linux

Question

I install and configure SonarQube like this link but I can't start it properly. I see sonar.log and it was like this :

 --> Wrapper Started as Daemon
Launching a JVM...
Wrapper (Version 3.2.3) http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org
  Copyright 1999-2006 Tanuki Software, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

2018.12.05 07:32:36 INFO  app[][o.s.a.AppFileSystem] Cleaning or creating temp directory /opt/sonar/temp
2018.12.05 07:32:36 INFO  app[][o.s.a.es.EsSettings] Elasticsearch listening on /127.0.0.1:9001
2018.12.05 07:32:36 INFO  app[][o.s.a.p.ProcessLauncherImpl] Launch process[[key='es', ipcIndex=1, logFilenamePrefix=es]] from [/opt/sonar/elasticsearch]: /opt/sonar/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -Epath.conf=/opt/sonar/temp/conf/es
2018.12.05 07:32:36 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Waiting for Elasticsearch to be up and running
2018.12.05 07:32:37 INFO  app[][o.e.p.PluginsService] no modules loaded
2018.12.05 07:32:37 INFO  app[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.transport.Netty4Plugin]
2018.12.05 07:32:45 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Process[es] is up
2018.12.05 07:32:45 INFO  app[][o.s.a.p.ProcessLauncherImpl] Launch process[[key='web', ipcIndex=2, logFilenamePrefix=web]] from [/opt/sonar]: /usr/local/PA/jdk1.8.0_121/jre/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/sonar/temp -Xmx512m -Xms128m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -cp ./lib/common/*:./lib/server/*:/opt/sonar/lib/jdbc/mysql/mysql-connector-java-5.1.42.jar org.sonar.server.app.WebServer /opt/sonar/temp/sq-process3476754449645299131properties
2018.12.05 07:32:46 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Process [web] is stopped
2018.12.05 07:32:46 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Process [es] is stopped
2018.12.05 07:32:46 WARN  app[][o.s.a.p.AbstractProcessMonitor] Process exited with exit value [es]: 143
2018.12.05 07:32:46 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] SonarQube is stopped
<-- Wrapper Stopped

I use non-root user to start it, but it doesn't help me. what could i do?

Answer 1

Your log output is actually telling you where you can find more information.

Sonarqube is starting different processes

• es for elastic search
• web for the web layer
• compute engine
• sonar for managing all of them

when the sonar log is telling you, that one of those processes stopped, it is highly advised to take a look into the special logs for those.

within <sonar-dir>/logs you will find dedicated logs to each of the processes, and you can gather more information, most likely those will be sufficient enough to either solve the issue, or to ask for further help.

Answer 2

Take a look at es.log under <sonarqube_home>/logs. Most certainly there is an access issue on the Elasticsearch indices which can be fixed with chmod easily.