# Binder does not start, logs are empty

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328>\
**Category:** Binder\
**Created:** [May 10, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328 "2020-05-10T09:50:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 14\
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**Author:** ![imrankhan\_binder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@imrankhan\_binder](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/imrankhan_binder)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/1 "2020-05-10T09:50:53Z")

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help my binder not work what can i do?

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**Author:** ![1kastner](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/1kastner/32/1537_2.png) [@1kastner](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/1kastner)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/2 "2020-05-10T11:03:54Z")

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Share the git repository, screenshots, logs etc. so that people can understand the underlying problem.

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**Author:** ![imrankhan\_binder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@imrankhan\_binder](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/imrankhan_binder)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/3 "2020-05-11T09:49:32Z")

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![p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/f/f388fe6aee0d932807c6fd92d7aaa5edc4fc8b40.png)

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**Author:** ![sgibson91](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sgibson91/32/487_2.png) [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/4 "2020-05-15T06:53:39Z")

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Can you provide the link to the repo please?

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**Author:** ![imrankhan\_binder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@imrankhan\_binder](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/imrankhan_binder)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/5 "2020-06-09T04:52:42Z")

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> **[almond-sh/examples](https://github.com/almond-sh/examples)**
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> A collection of Jupyter notebooks showing what you can do with the almond Scala kernel. - almond-sh/examples

i try to open this repo but i can’t

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**Author:** ![sgibson91](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sgibson91/32/487_2.png) [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/6 "2020-06-09T05:18:27Z")

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The “launch binder” button in the repo just worked fine for me?

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**Author:** ![imrankhan\_binder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@imrankhan\_binder](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/imrankhan_binder)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/7 "2020-06-09T05:28:13Z")

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![pppb](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/c/cbc11df80b9f4576c5186a6c83d8adeb2de38c73.png)

in this case. my binder steel spinning about an hour. i don’t know why?. is any setup requirement or sign up to anywhere?

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**Author:** ![sgibson91](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sgibson91/32/487_2.png) [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/8 "2020-06-09T05:42:11Z")

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Ah, there’s no logs. Do you have an ad-blocker running? If so, please disable it and try running again. Give the page a few refreshes until text appears in the black box below “build logs”.

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**Author:** ![imrankhan\_binder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@imrankhan\_binder](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/imrankhan_binder)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/9 "2020-06-09T05:58:39Z")

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I disable the ad-blocker. and it lunch but when I try to re-run the same repo but it’s don’t lunch again. besides, I try to run it on firefox and it’s run fine. is any problem with the chrome browser?

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**Author:** ![sgibson91](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sgibson91/32/487_2.png) [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/10 "2020-06-09T06:04:26Z")

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We currently have no reports of issues launching on Chrome. Can you please try to refresh until logs appear and we will investigate why this is happening. Thanks.

cc/ @betatim

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**Author:** ![imrankhan\_binder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecccb3/32.png) [@imrankhan\_binder](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/imrankhan_binder)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 6:22am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/11 "2020-06-09T06:22:24Z")

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Thank you so much for your help. i will notify if having faces any problems.

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/12 "2020-06-09T14:46:05Z")

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> [@imrankhan\_binder](#):
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> I disable the ad-blocker. and it lunch but when I try to re-run the same repo but it’s don’t lunch again. besides, I try to run it on firefox and it’s run fine. is any problem with the chrome browser?

I have run in to this from time to time. I don’t know if it Chrome-specific because I generally use Chrome and then only use anything else when I encounter this problem. Rarely, on a failed launch like you experienced something gets so messed up somewhere on your machine that launching in that browser from that particular repo won’t work for the near term. I don’t know if it is caching or something else(?). What you have done by using another browser seems to be a reasonable work around. Sometime I try on a different computer or device (iPad) to see if it is just my browser. And then usually in a few days it works itself out. (I’ll add that I also never tried as a work around launching with a different URL, such as a specific commit; however, I wonder if that would circumvent the issue.)

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**Author:** ![sgibson91](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sgibson91/32/487_2.png) [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/13 "2020-06-10T14:55:15Z")

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Really, days?! I usually refresh 2-3 times and then the log appears 😕

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**Author:** ![fomightez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/fomightez/32/495_2.png) [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/binder-does-not-start-logs-are-empty/4328/14 "2020-06-10T16:00:53Z")

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> [@sgibson91](#):
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> Really, days?! I usually refresh 2-3 times and then the log appears

When it gets in that state, I refresh the heck out of it with no luck. That is why @imrankhan_binder 's description I quoted above struck a chord with me.  
Well, I’d say it will take at least a few hours if not days to work itself out. I used to go home from work at the end of the day, and so I’d try the computer a day or two later. And it is so rare I haven’t had a lot of opportunities to experiment with it.  
Especially since I am usually trying to do something else when it arises and so investigating isn’t my priority.  
Luckily, I haven’t experienced it lately.