Rstudio opens a blank page with a new codespace

[rebkwok]

See slack thread

In a new codespace created today, Will found that clicking on the RStudio link in the ports tab opened as a blank page. After closing the codespaces tab and reopening the codespace, RStudio worked as expected.

I tried creating a codespace from the same repo, and tried opening RStudio from the ports tab as soon as the codespace said it had started up, and I got a 502 page

A second attempt to open it worked. (Will reports that with his initial codespace, repeated attempts did not work, and it only worked after restarting the codespace)

Update:
Em is also having a similar issue with opening RStudio in a codespace. In this case, they got a 502 page, and could see that the RStudio port was not active. Restarting (twice) got it working again.

[lucyb]

I was able to recreate this problem, using the some repo. It appeared to start successfully, however I received a HTTP 401 (unauthorised) error when trying to open RStudio. I then started to see errors from the Codespace itself. I refreshed the page several times and the Codespace restarted, eventually RStudio worked as well.

After hitting "retry":

[mikerkelly]

Removing tech-support label as I don't think we need actively follow this up or get back further to the reporter (the tech-support process uses this label for tracking such tickets). I leave it to Team REX processes to decide if there's anything further to do with this ticket.