Issue with Starting Jupyter Notebook from WSL

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Hello!

I am hoping someone can help me resolve the following issue. I’d like to be able to start Jupyter from the Windows terminal. I am currently using Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 (WSL1) running Ubuntu. I have a python (version 3.9.5) environment created using conda that includes jupyter version 1.0.0.

Initially when I tried to run jupyter notebook I would get the following error.

tcgetpgrp failed: Not a tty

I followed the recommendation in this discussion and added export BROWSER=/mnt/c/path/to/windows/browser to my .bashrc. That fixed the tcgetpgrp issue. Also if it matters, I am using Firefox.

The issue is that now when I do jupyter notebook Firefox does open a new tab but it is a black screen. The address is file:///home/USERNAME/.local/share/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-23388-open.html. A “workaround” (described here) is to copy/paste http://localhost:8888 into the address bar which then takes me to a jupyter notebook login page where I copy/paste the token so that I can log into the notebook. I can then open and run my notebook file in my browser (so no more black screen). But this process is cumbersome. I am hoping someone can help me find a better way.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

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If you are using Ubuntu WSL, install the wslu package with apt “apt install wslu”. After installing the package, restart the shell and run jupyter again.

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That’s awesome, did not know this even existed.

Just to clarify though - this is intended for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 (WSL1)? (the docs only mention WSL without a number and WSL2, sorry for being so explicit).

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I haven’t tried it in WSL1. It works fine in WSL2.