Could you check to see if this is corrected automatically by running
Pkg.build("IJulia")? If not, we should figure out why.


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Thomas Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> This looks to have solved the problem nicely! When I looked at the last
> line of ~/.ipython/profile_julia/ipython_config.py it was:
>
> c.KernelManager.kernel_cmd = ["/home/thomas/julia/usr/bin/julia", "-F",
> "/home/thomas/.julia/IJulia/src/kernel.jl", "{connection_file}"]
>
> However there was no julia executable in my ~/julia/usr/bin file (it's
> just in ~/julia), and the notebook works if I replace this line with:
>
> c.KernelManager.kernel_cmd = ["/home/thomas/julia/julia", "-F",
> "/home/thomas/.julia/IJulia/src/kernel.jl", "{connection_file}"]
>
> Thanks for you help!
>
>
>
> On Friday, 11 April 2014 23:13:52 UTC+10, Isaiah wrote:
>
>> This error usually means that python can't find the julia executable. Try
>> running Pkg.build("IJulia") and see if there are any errors. If there are
>> no errors, then look in ~/.config/ipython/profile_julia/ipython_config.py.
>> The last line should be "c.KernelManager.kernel_cmd = ...". Does the Julia
>> binary referenced there actually exist? Can you shell out to it directly
>> from IPython?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Thomas Moore <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to get IJulia to work on Ubuntu 12.04 with Julia
>>> Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2057. I installed ipython 2.0.0 using easy_install:
>>>
>>> easy_install ipython[all]
>>>
>>>
>>> and this allows me to run an ipython notebook from the terminal with:
>>>
>>> ipython notebook
>>>
>>>
>>> This all works fine. I then attempted to install IJulia with
>>>
>>> Pkg.add("IJulia")
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> and this all seemed to work well. When I run
>>>
>>> ipython notebook --profile julia
>>>
>>>
>>> a notebook opens with the Julia logo at the top right. However, when I
>>> open a new notebook, the kernel appears permanently busy (I can write in
>>> markdown script and headers, but I can't execute any Julia code) and I get
>>> the following error message in the terminal:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-04-11 18:56:44.881 [NotebookApp] Creating new notebook in /
>>> 2014-04-11 18:56:44.884 [NotebookApp] Writing notebook-signing key to /
>>> home/thomas/.ipython/profile_julia/security/notebook_secret
>>> 2014-04-11 18:56:45.961 [NotebookApp] ERROR | Unhandled error in API
>>> request
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/html/
>>> base/handlers.py", line 286, in wrapper
>>>     result = method(self, *args, **kwargs)
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/html/
>>> services/sessions/handlers.py", line 65, in post
>>>     kernel_id = km.start_kernel(path=path)
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/html/
>>> services/kernels/kernelmanager.py", line 90, in start_kernel
>>>     kernel_id = super(MappingKernelManager, self).start_kernel(**kwargs)
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/
>>> multikernelmanager.py", line 116, in start_kernel
>>>     km.start_kernel(**kwargs)
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/
>>> manager.py", line 217, in start_kernel
>>>     **kw)
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/
>>> manager.py", line 173, in _launch_kernel
>>>     return launch_kernel(kernel_cmd, **kw)
>>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/
>>> launcher.py", line 254, in launch_kernel
>>>     stdin=_stdin, stdout=_stdout, stderr=_stderr, cwd=cwd, env=os.
>>> environ)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
>>>     errread, errwrite)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1249, in _execute_child
>>>     raise child_exception
>>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>>> ERROR:tornado.access:{
>>>   "Origin": "http://127.0.0.1:8998";,
>>>   "Content-Length": "50",
>>>   "Accept-Language": "en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6",
>>>   "Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate,sdch",
>>>   "Connection": "keep-alive",
>>>   "Accept": "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01",
>>>   "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36
>>> (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.152 Safari/537.36",
>>>   "Host": "127.0.0.1:8998",
>>>   "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
>>>   "Referer": "http://127.0.0.1:8998/notebooks/Untitled16.ipynb";,
>>>   "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"
>>> }
>>> ERROR:tornado.access:500 POST /api/sessions (127.0.0.1) 20.67ms referer=
>>> http://127.0.0.1:8998/notebooks/Untitled16.ipynb
>>> 2014-04-11 19:20:45.994 [NotebookApp] Saving notebook at /Untitled16.
>>> ipynb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If instead I run
>>>
>>> ipython console --profile julia
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't even get so far as anything opening at all: I just get the same
>>> error message.
>>>
>>> This error and others similar to it have appeared in a number of places,
>>> for example:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/61
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-users/
>>> MJrSqN1CcDs/SrbQOL2yMTkJ
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-users/
>>> MhTP9T-j5FY/PP_Su47p8RoJ
>>>
>>> The reason for the error and suggested fixes vary considerably. I've
>>> tried deleting ~/.ipython/profile_julia and running Pkg.fixup("IJulia").
>>> I've tried removing IJulia and then running Pkg.add("WinRPM") and then
>>> Pkg.add("IJulia"). So far the error message hasn't changed.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

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