binder demo broken

[mbmilligan]

I suspect the binder configuration needs some version pins added somewhere. I tried the binder link today, and while it worked a couple of months ago, now the VNC handshake never completes.

[psychemedia]

MyBinder version runs as of today but requires a password credential from the noVNC connection / login panel?

[mrakitin]

I am experiencing the same problem. Any clue what's the default password?

[ryanlovett]

Hi all, sorry for the silence. This extension broke when binder updated the base container to be Ubuntu Bionic.

I'm actually working on updating this extension to be based on jupyter-server-proxy which is a renamed and upgraded nbserverproxy. I'll update the README to indicate the status of this project. I'm happy to keep the bug open until everything is working once more.

[mrakitin]

Thank you, @ryanlovett!

[psychemedia]

Just to clarify on the README as regards the password, you can set the password inside a running MyBinder instance by opening a Jupyter terminal and entering the command: vncpasswd.

As suggested though, things seem to be broken even then — entering a password seems to result in a broken connection, in MyBinder at least.