Still getting "Model not found" error instead of static figure when saving and re-opening the notebook

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#473 opened on Jun 29, 2022 16 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: jupyter-notebook, matplotlib
Domain: data-visualization

Research direction

Start by reproducing the save-and-reopen workflow in JupyterLab with the versions listed in the issue, then inspect the Chrome console output shown in the report. The issue is resolved when reopening the notebook renders the figure without the “Model not found” error.

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Description

Hi, unfortunately, I am still seeing this error after re-opening the notebook.
Screenshot at 2022-06-29 16-31-42

The console log from Chrome:
Screenshot at 2022-06-29 16-33-54

Versions:

jupyter_client            7.3.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyter_core              4.10.0           py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
jupyter_server            1.17.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab                3.4.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab_pygments       0.2.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab_server         2.14.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab_widgets        1.1.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge

matplotlib                3.5.2            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
matplotlib-base           3.5.2            py39h700656a_0    conda-forge
matplotlib-inline         0.1.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge

ipydatawidgets            4.3.1.post1        pyhc268e32_0    conda-forge
ipykernel                 6.13.0           py39hef51801_0    conda-forge
ipympl                    0.9.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ipython                   8.4.0            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
ipython_genutils          0.2.0                      py_1    conda-forge
ipywidgets                7.7.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge

Thanks for any help!

Originally posted by @nvaytet in https://github.com/matplotlib/ipympl/issues/343#issuecomment-1170066433

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