Jupyter Lab error out in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2).

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Yes! I’m getting an error when trying to run “jupyter lab” to run notebook in WSL.

I’m sure that this not available yet. But, it would be a NICE to have it working on WSL

PS C:\Windows\System32> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.0-rc.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.0-rc.2
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19559
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

PS C:\Windows\System32>

Windows 10 Insider

(OS Build 19559.1000)

WSL - 2

(base) maxt@earth:~$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
(base) maxt@earth:~$

Anaconda 2019.10

(base) maxt@earth:~$ conda info

     active environment : base
    active env location : /home/maxt/anaconda3
            shell level : 1
       user config file : /home/maxt/.condarc
 populated config files :
          conda version : 4.7.12
    conda-build version : 3.18.9
         python version : 3.7.4.final.0
       virtual packages :
       base environment : /home/maxt/anaconda3  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
          package cache : /home/maxt/anaconda3/pkgs
                          /home/maxt/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /home/maxt/anaconda3/envs
                          /home/maxt/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/4.7.12 requests/2.22.0 CPython/3.7.4 Linux/4.19.84-microsoft-standard ubuntu/18.04.2 glibc/2.27
                UID:GID : 1000:1000
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

(base) maxt@earth:~$

[janreitz]

You can have jupyter notebook open the browser directly from wsl by disabling this option:

c.NotebookApp.use_redirect_file = False

By default, jupyter will try to open a redirect file with your browser. but the windows browser cannot find the wsl file path. This is where the file not found error comes from. This option let’s you revert back to just opening the link in the browser.

[MaximoTrinidad]

@janreitz

Damn!! This is it!!!

Adding the line:

c.NotebookApp.use_redirect_file = False

Did the magic.

Thank You Very Much!

👍