Comments on How to Install SonarQube on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

From what I see you are installing Oracle java but didn't use update-alternatives and are still using the OpenJDK from the standard repository? (see Java -v) Which works prefectly well BTW. No Oracle Java needed.

Next to that I am wondering why you don't use the PostgreSQL version from repositories? It offers version 10.6 which is perfect for SonarQube and easier to install.

Last but not least I am using Nginx as proxy, but that is my personal preference.

Thanks for detailed docs.  Much better than on the sonarqube website.  Mine instal kept restarting the service.  The logs said I needed UTF8 isntead of Latin1.  So I had to create the database like this: CREATE DATABASE sonar WITH OWNER sonar ENCODING 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.UTF-8' TEMPLATE template0;

Nope, does not work.

Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Wed 2019-08-07 05:57:06 UTC; 3min 53s ago

Kinf of did not think it would, but thanks anyway.

Aug 07 06:35:35 services sonar.sh[13810]: Failed to start SonarQube.Aug 07 06:35:35 services sonar.sh[13865]: Stopping SonarQube...Aug 07 06:35:35 services sonar.sh[13865]: SonarQube was not running.Aug 07 06:35:35 services systemd[1]: Started SonarQube service.Aug 07 06:36:30 services systemd[1]: Starting SonarQube service...Aug 07 06:36:30 services sonar.sh[13928]: Starting SonarQube...Aug 07 06:36:31 services sonar.sh[13928]: Failed to start SonarQube.Aug 07 06:36:31 services sonar.sh[13986]: Stopping SonarQube...Aug 07 06:36:31 services sonar.sh[13986]: SonarQube was not running.Aug 07 06:36:31 services systemd[1]: Started SonarQube service.

.. and it is not running.

Went thru all the steps, but This command fails:  sudo chown -R sonar:sonar /opt/sonarqube

chown: invalid user: ‘sonar:sonar’

 

at the time to execute

Next, switch to the postgres user with the following command:

su - postgres it asks for a password, but the documentation does not specify any. which password can be used?