How do I run Chromium on Ubuntu Server

Question

I have a problem with Kibana: Dashboard and visualizations don't show any results!

As you can see in this screenshot, in the discover tab I get some results! Which means data exists in my index "as-*". right? But I used a trick in order to display this data :

1) I changed the range to "Today" ==> it shows no result found !

2) I clicked "New" button ==> then i get my data displayed! Is there an other way "more proper" to get data displayed?

Then in the my dashboard (or visualization) I can't get any results!! even if the range is the same as discover tab!

I restarted Kibana ==> no changes! I deleted as-* then I created it => no changes!

I'm using Curator to create daily index and logstash to index the data into ES!

I'm stuck here ! I ll be glad if you can help me figure it out ! Thank you very much!

Solution

You cannot run a GUI application if you have a headless server without a GUI. In Linux/Ubuntu you need to install XWindows. I expect that when installing Chromium there were some suggestions on installing other dependancies? Like XWindows. Otherwise you could install a mininum GUI like XFCE4 without all the dependancies (so not the Xubuntu desktop, but only XFCE4). This will enable you to start the XWindows system from command line (startxfce4) when you want. But it is no longer a real headless server.

Like the other commenters said: you can start it using ssh -X (-X will forward XWindows) but not VNC. The VNC software expects a GUI already running, while ssh -X will start it's own (have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System).

When using SSH from a different computer you also need a XWindows server. For windows install CygWin (and XWin) or use XMing.