NOTES: RStudio gets stuck at "R is taking longer to start than usual"

[HenrikBengtsson]

Issue

At times, users report they get stuck at "R is taking longer to start than usual" after entering their credentials:

It is not clear why this happens, but at least once it was sufficient to remove ~/.local/share/rstudio, e.g.

$ mv ~/.local/share/rstudio ~/.local/share/rstudio.20231201.HIDE

and then retry.

[HenrikBengtsson]

There might be some clues in the ~/.local/share/rstudio/log/{rsession,rserver}*.log files. We might want to look for ERROR, e.g.

$ grep -E "\bERROR\b" ~/.local/share/rstudio/log/{rsession,rserver}*.log 

[HenrikBengtsson]

At least one user has reported that if they waited long enough (hours), the "R is taking longer to start than usual" would be resolved, and they'd get to a working RStudio Console.