Description of problem:

When logging in to JH to spawn a notebook pod users are presented with the error "Unable to load notebook server configuration options".

The JupyterHub server reports an error when the api fails to initialize an authenticated "user" from a cookie or token

  File "/opt/app-root/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1936, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/opt/app-root/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/connexion/decorators/decorator.py", line 68, in wrapper
    response = function(request)
  File "/opt/app-root/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/connexion/decorators/uri_parsing.py", line 149, in wrapper
    response = function(request)
  File "/opt/app-root/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/connexion/decorators/parameter.py", line 115, in wrapper
    return function(**kwargs)
  File "/opt/app-root/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/jupyterhub_singleuser_profiles/api/api.py", line 50, in decorated
    if for_user and user.get('admin'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

Prerequisites (if any, like setup, operators/versions):

Steps to Reproduce

No known reproducer steps currently

Actual results:

Upon JH login user is presented with an error in the JH Spawner UI "Unable to load notebook server configuration options"

Expected results:

Non-admin user can login to JupyterHub and access the spawner UI

Reproducibility (Always/Intermittent/Only Once):

N/A

Build Details:

RHODS v1.1.1-34

Additional info:

During this error JH admin users can login successfully. The current workaround is to restart all of the Traefik & JupyterHub server pods. The workaround may required deletion and recreation of the JH DeploymentConfig