[App Server] Error running anvil-app-server

Anvil Q&A
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What I’m trying to do:

I installed a new Ubuntu server 20.04.2 LTS. I followed the steps described in https://github.com/anvil-works/anvil-runtime/blob/master/doc/getting-started.md

when I tried to run anvil-app-server --app MyApp I got:

Failed to start built-in Postgres database: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/tulkas/.anvil-data/postgres-embedding.log (Permission denied)
More logs are available in .anvil-data/postgres.log.
Some common causes of this problem:

  • Are you launching this server as ‘root’ on a UNIX system?
    Postgres will not run as root; try launching the server as an ordinary user.
  • Are you running this server on an unusual architecture or OS? (Linux/amd64)

I am using the user I add when installed Ubuntu, so I see is not root. Looking to solve this problem in other posts its said you can’t use root as the user to start anvil-app-server because postgres don’t start.

The hardware where is installed ubuntu:

Intel® Celeron® CPU J1900
8Gb Ram

What could be happening?

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I add a new user to ubuntu to try to run anvil_app_server using that user but the result is the same.

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Make sure the permissions on the entire app directory are set to the user who is running the command…
chown user:user -R appdir/