Jupyter opens a 'dead' notebook interface: cannot create a new one, or open an existing

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So after following all the instructions, the token finally worked, and I’m looking at this:

This is very embarrassing. I tried running an existing notebook:

jupyter notebook nbk.ipynb

with the same result. I also opened a new notebook within the notebook by starting a new Terminal, but it didn’t work either.

UPDATE

The server uses Linux, on the local machine I use Windows.

The original:

jupyter notebook

Get the port address (8888) and the token

then, in Windows, in cmd run ssh:

ssh -N -L localhost:8887:localhost:8888 username@ip

Open the chrome tab on the local machine, navigate to localhost:8887, enter the token, get the screen below.

After @lww suggestion:

On the server, in Linux:

pip3 install virtualenv --user
mkdir awsm
cd awsm
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Repeat the above. Same result. What did I do wrong?

Asked By: Alex

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Answer 1

When ssh to remote server -N means "Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just forwarding ports."
One possible problem is that you should not use -N switch first time at least least because you will need to execute some commands like creating virtual environment installing jupyter.

Example procedure: ssh from windows 10 machine to guest virtual machine ubuntu 20.04

Working from windows terminal:

c:userslwwdesktop>ssh [email protected] -L 8888:localhost:8888
$ sudo pip3 install virtualenv --user
$ mkdir awsm && cd awsm
$ virtualenv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install notebook
$ jupyter notebook

Result:

Answered By: lww

Answer 2

OK so the problem seems to have been with the jupyter lab. I noticed jupyter is throwing an error:

Could not open static file ''

So after a bit of googling and printing out the jupyter --version:

    jupyter core     : 4.5.0
    jupyter-notebook : 6.0.0
    qtconsole        : 4.5.2
    ipython          : 7.7.0
    ipykernel        : 5.1.1
    jupyter client   : 5.3.1
    jupyter lab      : not installed
    nbconvert        : 5.5.0
    ipywidgets       : 7.5.1
    nbformat         : 4.4.0
    traitlets        : 4.3.2

Without virtualenv, I installed 

    pip3.5 install jupyterlab --user
    pip3.5 install tornado==5.0 --user
    pip3.5 install -U jupyter --user

Accessed the remote server from terminal:

ssh [email protected] -L 8889:localhost:8889

Ran jupyter: jupyter notebook --no-browser and then opened the remote link on the local browser: http://localhost:8889

And it works!

Answered By: Alex

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