Binder not working in a sub-directory

[HarshCasper]

Bug description

Hi 👋

I am working on developing a Jupyter Wrapper Kernel for the MetaCall Core library. We have a Dockerfile specified here that allows us to spin a Binder where we can try out the examples.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the sub-directories like examples where we host all of our example notebooks. It just displays Kernel starting.. and asks us to wait. This leads to a bad UX since most users would employ the use of example notebooks to try out the kernel.

Expected behaviour

The notebooks in the examples sub-directory should work and execute the code.

Actual behaviour

The notebooks in the examples sub-directory do not work and do not execute the code.

How to reproduce

• Start the Binder instance here.
• Go to the examples sub-directory and try executing a notebook.
• Kernel starting, please wait would be shown.

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[manics]

Sorry for the slow response. Have you tried reproducing the error locally with repo2docker?

This sounds like a problem specific to your kernel rather than a bug in binder or repo2docker, but if you can demonstrate a bug please open a new issue with specific details.

If you need more help would you mind posting on the community forum where more people hang out, and the rest of the community can benefit from these discussions 😀.