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Permission denied: 'xdg-settings' when executing 'jupyter notebook' from command line #85177

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krishnasai2020 mannequin opened this issue Jun 17, 2020 · 10 comments
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Permission denied: 'xdg-settings' when executing 'jupyter notebook' from command line #85177

krishnasai2020 mannequin opened this issue Jun 17, 2020 · 10 comments
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3.7 (EOL) end of life type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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krishnasai2020 mannequin commented Jun 17, 2020

BPO 41005
Nosy @ronaldoussoren, @ned-deily, @miss-islington, @remilapeyre, @KrishnaSai2020
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  • bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error #20936
  • [3.9] bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936) #21051
  • [3.8] bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936) #21052
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title = "Permission denied: 'xdg-settings' when executing 'jupyter notebook' from command line"
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    krishnasai2020 mannequin commented Jun 17, 2020

    error was caused by the permission problem with 'xdg-settings'. I checked that Google Chrome is my default browser. I tried the following command by changing the c.NotebookApp.allow_root to True in the jupyter_notebook_config.py file, and it can successfully open jupyter notebook in the browser Safari:
    sudo jupyter notebook

    @krishnasai2020 krishnasai2020 mannequin added 3.7 (EOL) end of life type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Jun 17, 2020
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    krishnasai2020 mannequin commented Jun 17, 2020

    error was caused by the permission problem with 'xdg-settings'. I checked that Google Chrome is my default browser. I tried the following command by changing the c.NotebookApp.allow_root to True in the jupyter_notebook_config.py file, and it can successfully open jupyter notebook in the browser Safari:
    sudo jupyter notebook. this is just a workaround however.

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    remilapeyre mannequin commented Jun 20, 2020

    Can you give more information about your issue here. This part of the code was written like this on purpose as the comment says:

        # OS X can use below Unix support (but we prefer using the OS X
    # specific stuff)

    We have to be sure that there is a bug here before changing the code, that changing the code will definitely fix the issue and that it won't create others.

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    krishnasai2020 mannequin commented Jun 21, 2020

    yeah there is a bug as web browsers won't open when you launch them from python code please have a look at this issue posted on jupyternotebook github : jupyter/notebook#3746 It was posted on the wrong place as it was not an issue with Jupiter but an issue with python.

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    I've commented on the attached PR.

    IMHO a correct fix is to catch and ignore PermissionError when calling xdg-settings (on all platforms). An xdg-settings executable that cannot be started due to permission problems is similar to that executable not being available at all.

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    krishnasai2020 mannequin commented Jun 21, 2020

    yeah I've updated the pr please review

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    New changeset 9e27bc0 by Krishna Chivukula in branch 'master':
    bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936)
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    New changeset adf8708 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8':
    bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936) (GH-21052)
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    New changeset d518ed0 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9':
    bpo-41005: Fixed perrmission error (GH-20936) (GH-21051)
    d518ed0

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    @ronaldoussoren The issue seems to be solved. We can close the issue.

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