how to launch sonarqube?

Question

for my studies I need to install sonarqube on an ubuntu server.

I installed it following this tutorial : http://www.naturalborncoder.com/methodology/2015/05/27/sonarqube-on-ubuntu-14-04/ (I stopped before the proxying part) but I can't access to 127.0.0.1:9000. From the logs it look like there is a problem with elasticsearch when i launch sonarcube.

/opt/sonar/log/sonar.log :

--> 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.

2017.11.14 18:21:11 INFO  app[][o.s.a.AppFileSystem] Cleaning or creating temp directory /opt/sonar/temp
2017.11.14 18:21:11 INFO  app[][o.s.a.es.EsSettings] Elasticsearch listening on /127.0.0.1:9001
2017.11.14 18:21:11 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
2017.11.14 18:21:11 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Waiting for Elasticsearch to be up and running
2017.11.14 18:21:13 INFO  app[][o.e.p.PluginsService] no modules loaded
2017.11.14 18:21:13 INFO  app[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded plugin [org.elasticsearch.transport.Netty4Plugin]
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.elasticsearch-rest-client}
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.httpasyncclient-4.1.2.jar}
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.netty-common-4.1.13.Final.jar}
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.netty-transport-4.1.13.Final.jar}
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.securesm-1.1.jar}
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.lucene-core-6.6.1.jar}
java.security.policy: error adding Entry:
        java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${codebase.lucene-misc-6.6.1.jar}
2017.11.14 18:21:27 WARN  app[][o.s.a.p.AbstractProcessMonitor] Process exited with exit value [es]: 1
2017.11.14 18:21:27 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] Process [es] is stopped
2017.11.14 18:21:27 INFO  app[][o.s.a.SchedulerImpl] SonarQube is stopped
<-- Wrapper Stopped

/opt/sonar/logs/es.log :

2017.11.14 18:21:24 INFO  es[][o.e.n.Node] initializing ...
2017.11.14 18:21:24 INFO  es[][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/ (/dev/vda1)]], net usable_space [5.7gb], net total_space [9.6gb], spins? [possibly], types [ext4]
2017.11.14 18:21:24 INFO  es[][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] heap size [503.6mb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true]
2017.11.14 18:21:24 INFO  es[][o.e.n.Node] node name [sonarqube], node ID [3PxDbRbDQ4-M_YDsv25FHg]
2017.11.14 18:21:24 INFO  es[][o.e.n.Node] version[5.6.3], pid[8661], build[1a2f265/2017-10-06T20:33:39.012Z], OS[Linux/4.4.0-22-generic/amd64], JVM[Oracle Corporation/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/9-internal/9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.b$
2017.11.14 18:21:24 INFO  es[][o.e.n.Node] JVM arguments [-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75, -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, $
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats]
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded module [ingest-common]
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded module [parent-join]
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded module [percolator]
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded module [reindex]
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] loaded module [transport-netty4]
2017.11.14 18:21:26 INFO  es[][o.e.p.PluginsService] no plugins loaded
2017.11.14 18:21:27 ERROR es[][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] fatal error in thread [main], exiting
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null
        at org.apache.lucene.analysis.miscellaneous.StemmerOverrideFilter$Builder.build(StemmerOverrideFilter.java:205) ~[lucene-analyzers-common-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:55$
        at org.apache.lucene.analysis.nl.DutchAnalyzer.<init>(DutchAnalyzer.java:133) ~[lucene-analyzers-common-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:55:17]
        at org.apache.lucene.analysis.nl.DutchAnalyzer.<init>(DutchAnalyzer.java:106) ~[lucene-analyzers-common-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:55:17]
        at org.elasticsearch.indices.analysis.PreBuiltAnalyzers$20.create(PreBuiltAnalyzers.java:246) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.indices.analysis.PreBuiltAnalyzers.getAnalyzer(PreBuiltAnalyzers.java:487) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.AnalysisRegistry$PrebuiltAnalysis.<init>(AnalysisRegistry.java:407) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.AnalysisRegistry$PrebuiltAnalysis.<init>(AnalysisRegistry.java:392) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.AnalysisRegistry.<init>(AnalysisRegistry.java:62) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.indices.analysis.AnalysisModule.<init>(AnalysisModule.java:177) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.<init>(Node.java:340) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.<init>(Node.java:245) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.<init>(Bootstrap.java:233) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:233) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:342) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:132) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:70) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:134) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.6.3.jar:5.6.3]
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "accessDeclaredMembers")
        at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:468) ~[?:?]
        at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:894) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:541) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.Class.checkMemberAccess(Class.java:2584) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:2092) ~[?:?]
        at org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator$1.run(RamUsageEstimator.java:339) ~[lucene-core-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:54:39]
        at org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator$1.run(RamUsageEstimator.java:336) ~[lucene-core-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:54:39]
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:?]
        at org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator.shallowSizeOfInstance(RamUsageEstimator.java:336) ~[lucene-core-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:54:39]
        at org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator.shallowSizeOf(RamUsageEstimator.java:313) ~[lucene-core-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:54:39]
        at org.apache.lucene.util.fst.ByteSequenceOutputs.<clinit>(ByteSequenceOutputs.java:154) ~[lucene-core-6.6.1.jar:6.6.1 9aa465a89b64ff2dabe7b4d50c472de32c298683 - varunthacker - 2017-08-29 21:54:39]
        ... 21 more

java -version :

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2-b12)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)

sonarqube version : 6.7

I launch sonarqube as root so there should not have problem coming from access right.

All the post that i find about this error where related with openjdk9 but this is not my case.

Do you have an idea of what is happening ?

Answer 1

SonarQube 6.7 includes an upgraded version of Elasticsearch which cannot be run as root. Thus, SonarQube can no longer be run as root.

The blog post you followed seems to recommend / assume that you're running as root. To not start SonarQube as root, simply end your su session, or log back in as yourself to start the process. Note that you'll need to make sure the user you are starting SonarQube as has 7 (read, write, execute) on the SonarQube directory, recursively, and 6 (read, write) on the log files if they already exist.

Answer 2

In my case, the Java version was the problem.

I installed Oracle JDK 8 for for sonarcube 6.7.1, which resolved the problem:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java    
sudo apt-get update    
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

You can read more about the supported platforms here. For now, only Java 8 is supported.