Notebook: Error when trying to launch the notebook (anaconda 2.7)

[neilb01]

Hello so I installed Anaconda Version 2.7 (Prof made us install this version specifically). Anyways I originally had it installed on mac but we had to do some SQL Server stuff so I had to install Anaconda on Windows (I'm using a Macbook Pro and running W8.1 through VMWare Fusion Pro 8).

When I try and launch the notebook from the Anaconda launcher the cmd window pops up and it says

[I 16:45:53.923 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: C:\Anaconda
2\Scripts

[I 16:45:53.923 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels

[I 16:45:53.923 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: http://localhos
t:8888/

[I 16:45:53.923 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all
 kernels (twice to skip confirmation).

and when firefox launches i get this error "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8888"

I tried debugging from the cmd line and heres what I get

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_config in C:\Anaconda2\etc\jupy
ter

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_config in C:\Users\n\.jupyter

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_config in C:\Windows\system32

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_notebook_config in C:\ProgramDa
ta\jupyter

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_notebook_config in C:\Anaconda2
\etc\jupyter

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_notebook_config in C:\Users\n\.
jupiter

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Looking for jupyter_notebook_config in C:\Windows\s
ystem32

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] Config changed:

[D 16:30:11.144 NotebookApp] {'NotebookApp': {'log_level': 10}}

[D 16:30:11.611 NotebookApp] Terminals not available (error was No module named
terminado)

[I 16:30:11.611 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: C:\Windows\
system32

[I 16:30:11.628 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels

[I 16:30:11.628 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at: http://localhos
t:8888/

[I 16:30:11.628 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all
 kernels (twice to skip confirmation).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Edit: Things I've tried

Disabled Firewall

Uninstalled Eset Security Suite

Reinstalled anaconda

Tried with chrome instead

tried using the ip address 127.x.x.x to access the notebook but still no luck

[takluyver]

Are you opening the browser in the Windows VM, or from OS X? It won't be able to see the notebook server from outside the VM.

[neilb01]

I'm opening it from Windows.

[takluyver]

Then maybe there's something odd about the network interfaces in VMware. I'm not familiar with it, hopefully someone else will be...

[willingc]

@neilb01 From within the Windows VM terminal that you are using to run the notebook, are you able to ping 127.0.0.1 or ping localhost? If you are able, can you try starting Jupyter notebook using a port other than the default using jupyter notebook --port 8889 or other unused port. If that doesn't work you may need to configure the VM to use your Mac's IP address instead of 127.0.0.1.

[neilb01]

@willingc Hi yes I can ping both. I have tried other ports, I've tried ip=* nothing seems to be working.

I will look into seeing what IP address the VM is using. Thanks.

[dataplayer]

@neilb01 I seem to be having the same issue you originally posted but in Virtualbox running jupyter in a linux VM. Did you figure what what your problems was?

[djmhunt]

Hi,
I have faced a similar problem on my Windows 10 machine. I just installed Anaconda with python 2.7 and Jupyter and found that the Jupyter notebook server was starting in System32. I found two solutions to this:

• Changing the port to 8889, as you suggested.
• Reinstalling Anaconda with the installer running with admin privileges (I did this as the installer won't create the start menu shortcuts without admin privileges)

Hope that helps!

[takluyver]

the installer won't create the start menu shortcuts without admin privileges)

That sounds like a bug in the Anaconda installer; it should be possible to create start menu shortcuts without admin access.

[swapnilpatel]

I faced similar issue with Anaconda 4.3.0 installaiton. but I couldn't find a root cause for the issue. before facing this issue I updated conda packages via command prompt

I uninstalled and installed Anaconda 4.3.0 with admin previledge which didn't fix the issue. At last the port change method mentioned by @willingc is working fine now.

[willingc]

Thanks @swapnilpatel for sharing your experience.

I'm going to go ahead and close this issue as resolved by using a port other than the default when launching.

[slmingol]

On OSX if I switched to 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost I could access jupyter.