Unable to run a C++ ROOTbook

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Dear all,

We are setting up a JupyterLab platform, whose notebooks are currently spawned within a Docker container.

We have installed several ROOT versions which are available from a shared mount on the compute cluster and within the Docker container.

We however experience a few issues running a C++ ROOTbook.

We set up a kernel.json containing the following

{
   "language": "c++",
   "display_name": "ROOT C++",
   "argv": [
      "PATH_TO_THE_HELPER_SCRIPT",
      "-f",
      "{connection_file}"
   ]
}

The helper script is used to set up the required environment required by the ROOT version chosen

#!/bin/bash

SET UP MY ENV
#
exec python -m JupyROOT.kernel.rootkernel "$@"

Doing as describe above, the new kernel is available from the Jupyter notebook, however commands usually hang, and the kernel eventually dies.

I have checked the various recipes, and I don’t see what I am doing wrong.

I did the same for a Python ROOTbook, and it works as a charm (with a similar ‘helper’ script to set up the required environment)!

Do you have any idea of what I am missing to make it work?

Thank you in advance,
Best regards,

Sébastien

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ROOT Version: v6.18.00
Platform: CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908
Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.8.5

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Hi,
Can you try to launch JupyterLab manually from inside the container and check what is the message you get when you spawn a ROOT C++ notebook?

One thing we do in the kernel.json of the ROOT C++ notebook is making sure that the Python you use to run the kernel is the same Python that ROOT was built with. Perhaps you could check that?