Cannot list running notebook with --allow-root

[ywchan2005]

Several command patterns are tried, but none of them succeeds. How may 'root' list the running notebooks?

Case 1
> jupyter --allow-root notebook list
No such file or directory: /root/notebook

Case 2
> jupyter notebook --allow-root list
No such file or directory: /root/list

Case 3
> jupyter notebook list --allow-root
CRITICAL | Unrecognized flag: '--allow-root'

I'm using jupyter notebook 5.0.

[gnestor]

When I run jupyter notebook list --help-all I get the following:

List currently running notebook servers.

Options
-------

Arguments that take values are actually convenience aliases to full
Configurables, whose aliases are listed on the help line. For more information
on full configurables, see '--help-all'.

--json
    Produce machine-readable JSON output.
--config=<Unicode> (JupyterApp.config_file)
    Default: ''
    Full path of a config file.
--log-level=<Enum> (Application.log_level)
    Default: 30
    Choices: (0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 'DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARN', 'ERROR', 'CRITICAL')
    Set the log level by value or name.

Class parameters
----------------

Parameters are set from command-line arguments of the form:
`--Class.trait=value`. This line is evaluated in Python, so simple expressions
are allowed, e.g.:: `--C.a='range(3)'` For setting C.a=[0,1,2].

NbserverListApp options
-----------------------
--NbserverListApp.answer_yes=<Bool>
    Default: False
    Answer yes to any prompts.
--NbserverListApp.config_file=<Unicode>
    Default: ''
    Full path of a config file.
--NbserverListApp.config_file_name=<Unicode>
    Default: ''
    Specify a config file to load.
--NbserverListApp.generate_config=<Bool>
    Default: False
    Generate default config file.
--NbserverListApp.json=<Bool>
    Default: False
    If True, each line of output will be a JSON object with the details from the
    server info file.
--NbserverListApp.log_datefmt=<Unicode>
    Default: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
    The date format used by logging formatters for %(asctime)s
--NbserverListApp.log_format=<Unicode>
    Default: '[%(name)s]%(highlevel)s %(message)s'
    The Logging format template
--NbserverListApp.log_level=<Enum>
    Default: 30
    Choices: (0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 'DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARN', 'ERROR', 'CRITICAL')
    Set the log level by value or name.

So it appears that the --allow-root flag is not available for the list subcommand, just the jupyter notebook command.

[timvisee]

I'm experiencing the same issue, since a few hours. Downgrading a version probably temporarily solves the issue.

[takluyver]

Are you trying to list notebook servers that are running as root? Does it work without the --allow-root flag?

[timvisee]

@takluyver The notebook server is running as root user.

When running the jupyter notebook list command as root user, the command returns it's not recommended to run as root, thus the argument --allow-root can be used to bypass the warning. The problem is however, that the argument --allow-root isn't recognized by the list sub-command. Thus, running jupyter notebook list --allow-root returns a different error. To be exact, the message returned when invoking the command with --allow-root is mentioned by @gnestor 's comment.

Running the notebook as non-root user doesn't seem to make any difference.

As I've mentioned. This problem only started for me since about a day, possibly because of a faulty release.

[gnestor]

Hmmm, when I run jupyter notebook list I get a list of running servers as expected. @timvisee Are you saying that you can't under any circumstances? Are you running the server locally or on a remote server?

[timvisee]

@gnestor Yes, that's right.

I'm running Jupyter Notebook in a custom Docker container in fact. It is installed with miniconda. Thus, running it locally or remotely is irrelevant. I am executing the commands as root (UID 0) however. I'm currently enforcing a previous version to fix the issue.

I'm happy to make a special Docker container image build with the newest Jupyter Notebook version installed if preferred, so you can give it a try :)

[thomasopsomer]

I'm experimenting the same issue in a similar case:
I spawn jupyter containers with sudo privileges and since the new jupyter image I need to add the --allow-root flag to the singleuser script, but I get the same error 'No such file or directory'

@timvisee if you come up with a trick, I'm interested :)

[gnestor]

@minrk Do you have any idea what's going on here?

[shantanuo]

I am having the same problem.
@thomasopsomer If you are trying to list running notebooks just to retrieve password, it is visible when you do docker logs command.

[minrk]

Should be fixed by #2421

[mikkokotila]

Regarding being fixed by #2421 I have a related issue and am not sure if that alone fix it. I can create the notebook but can't see the list so can't get the token to access.

I understood the fix is to use the master, but when I do:

pip install git+https://github.com/jupyter/notebook.git

I get the below. i.e it seems that I have an issue with the suggested fix.

  > bower install --allow-root --config.interactive=false
    /usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory
    rebuilding js and css failed. The following required files are missing: ['notebook/static/components', 'notebook/static/notebook/js/main.min.js', 'notebook/static/tree/js/main.min.js', 'notebook/static/edit/js/main.min.js', 'notebook/static/terminal/js/main.min.js', 'notebook/static/auth/js/main.min.js', 'notebook/static/style/ipython.min.css', 'notebook/static/style/style.min.css']
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-Hgy2bb-build/setup.py", line 199, in <module>
        main()
      File "/tmp/pip-Hgy2bb-build/setup.py", line 196, in main
        setup(**setup_args)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 61, in run
        return orig.install.run(self)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 601, in run
        self.run_command('build')
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 128, in run
        self.run_command(cmd_name)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
        self.distribution.run_command(command)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "setupbase.py", line 577, in run
        raise e
    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['bower', 'install', '--allow-root', '--config.interactive=false']' returned non-zero exit status 127
    
    ----------------------------------------
  Rolling back uninstall of notebook
Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-Hgy2bb-build/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-a1MnBE-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-Hgy2bb-build/