Reporting - PDF generation fail "Unable to generate report Error : Caught error spawning Chromium"

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hello,

I get an error each time i want to generate a PDF report, a pop-up say " Unable to generate report Error : Caught error spawning Chromium".

I already try a lot of things i found on other discussion but nothing works...

Kibana 6.5 is installed on a SLES 12 SP2

A solution provided is to ensure that headless_shell binary located in Kibana data directory is owned by the user who is running Kibana, that the user has the execute permission, that's the case :

admin@linux-5t15:~> ps -eaf |grep kiba
root      2473  2220  8 15:29 pts/1    00:00:22 ./kibana-6.5.4-linux-x86_64/bin/../node/bin/node --no-warnings ./kibana-6.5.4-linux-x86_64/bin/../src/cli
admin     2578  2554  0 15:34 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto kiba
 
 
 
admin@linux-5t15:~> ll ./kibana-6.5.4-linux-x86_64/data/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 43 Nov 13 14:56 headless_shell-linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Nov 13 10:49 uuid

 
admin@linux-5t15:~> ll ./kibana-6.5.4-linux-x86_64/data/headless_shell-linux/
total 111116
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113780392 Nov 13 10:49 headless_shell
drwx------ 2 root root         6 Nov 13 14:56 locales

I also installed : fontconfig, freetype, ipa-gothic-fonts, xorg-x11-fonts, xorg-x11-fonts-core, mozilla-nss, mozilla-nspr but still the same issue.

I try ldd command to see missing dependencies and i think all is alright :

    linux-5t15:/home/admin # ldd ./kibana-6.5.4-linux-x86_64/data/headless_shell-linux/headless_shell 
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdd91f6000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f01f5343000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f01f5126000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f01f4f1e000)
	libnss3.so => /usr/lib64/libnss3.so (0x00007f01f4bfb000)
	libnssutil3.so => /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so (0x00007f01f49cd000)
	libnspr4.so => /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so (0x00007f01f478f000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f01f4565000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f01f4360000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f01f4063000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f01f3e4c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f01f3aab000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f01f5547000)
	libplc4.so => /usr/lib64/libplc4.so (0x00007f01f38a6000)
	libplds4.so => /usr/lib64/libplds4.so (0x00007f01f36a2000)

need your help to make it works please :slight_smile:

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I think kibana is not run by your own user, it should be run by the elasticsearch user when ran as a service.

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