Image found but not launching?

Binder
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I’m having trouble launching. Build seemed to go ok, but shows launching server for a long time, then Launch Attempt 1 failed … but no other log messages.

Any insight?

Hmmm, on the original build page the end of the log showed:

{"aux": {"ID": "sha256:094899f1dc6d0cc4899dfa4f485a2ccb57ee6f039f8cefac1b267c9f19ead601"}}[Warning] One or more build-args [NB_USER NB_UID] were not consumed
Successfully built 094899f1dc6d
Successfully tagged gcr.io/binder-prod/r2d-f18835fd-howisonlab-2dsoftcite-2ddataset-ac023a:a1dd9f72aa3739af9c03c7a239061a11b82c228f
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Successfully pushed gcr.io/binder-prod/r2d-f18835fd-howisonlab-2dsoftcite-2ddataset-ac023a:a1dd9f72aa3739af9c03c7a239061a11b82c228fBuilt image, launching...
Launching server...
Launch attempt 1 failed, retrying...
Launch attempt 2 failed, retrying...
Launch attempt 3 failed, retrying...
Internal Server Error
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It looks like this is your repo:

That Dockerfile is based on rocker/tidyverse, but repo2docker and mybinder have specific requirements:

I noticed the Docker Hub readme for https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/tidyverse/ says there’s a rocker/binder image, maybe worth investigating?

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You could also try installing the tidyverse using an environment.yml file like so https://github.com/betatim/r-conda
Dockerfiles are advanced usage of Binder and can be tricky to debug

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Thanks y’all. I’m coming to understand the options here, where having one’s own Dockerfile is some advanced stuff. I have it because I use it locally on my laptop with this repo, which I’d like to keep doing. I’m looking into repo2docker locally (which seems like a great option anyway!) which would let me take the Dockerfile (and maybe the docker-compose.yml which I use for mounting local folders) out of the repo.

But assuming I can’t take the Dockerfile out, is there any way to have Binder ignore it?

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Assuming I’m looking at the correct bit of code if you’ve got a binder/ or .binder/ directory repo2docker will use that directory instead of the root of the repo.

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Awesome. Found documentation here: https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-put-my-configuration-files-outside-the-root-of-my-repository

Looks like that’s the go! Although i’m really intrigued by repo2docker locally, so probably will pursue both.

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Just linking some docs to confirm the priority order of the directories :slight_smile: https://repo2docker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#where-to-put-configuration-files

If its useful, this repo has a couple of environment configurations. binder contains a Dockerfile that works with mybinder.org and env-configuration contains repo2docker files: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/QUIPP-pipeline This may be useful for you as running r2d locally has a flag to say where the config files are