Spyder will not initialize. . . . any ideas

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I’ve got the latest of everything on my computer as far as updates and kernel. I’ve got the Spyder programming app installed and it doesn’t initialize. In Konsole this is what I get. . . . any idea’s?

[richardc@richard-AM3 ~]$ spyder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 568, in _build_master
ws.require(requires)
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 886, in require
needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 777, in resolve
raise VersionConflict(dist, req).with_context(dependent_req)
pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (spyder-kernels 2.2.0 (/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages), Requirement.parse(‘spyder-kernels<2.2.0,>=2.1.1’), {‘spyder’})

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/spyder”, line 33, in
sys.exit(load_entry_point(‘spyder==5.1.5’, ‘gui_scripts’, ‘spyder’)())
File “/usr/bin/spyder”, line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
return next(matches).load()
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py”, line 77, in load
module = import_module(match.group(‘module’))
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 1030, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 1007, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 680, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 850, in exec_module
File “”, line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py”, line 47, in
from spyder.utils.external import lockfile
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spyder/utils/external/lockfile.py”, line 31, in
from spyder.utils.programs import is_spyder_process
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spyder/utils/programs.py”, line 28, in
import pkg_resources
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3243, in
def _initialize_master_working_set():
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3226, in _call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 3255, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 570, in _build_master
return cls._build_from_requirements(requires)
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 583, in _build_from_requirements
dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 772, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘spyder-kernels<2.2.0,>=2.1.1’ distribution was not found and is required by spyder

Today’s update included a kernel for spyder. . . What am I missing here?

Richard :slight_smile:

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Sounds like a partial upgrade to me.

What versions of the spyder packages so you have installed? Current should be:

community/python-spyder-kernels 2.2.0-1
    Jupyter Kernels for the Spyder console
community/spyder 5.1.5-2
    The Scientific Python Development Environment
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I’ve got spyder 5.1.5-2
python-spyder-kernels 2.2.0-1
python-pyls-spyder 0.4.0-1
What files constitute the Scientific Python Development Environment? Maybe these aren’t installed?

Rich :wink:

4

Looks like the package versions are misaligned, related to:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72820

Until this is resolved in the repos, option 1 is to edit the PKGBUILD and see if 5.2.0 will build. Option 2 is to use Anaconda to create a conda environment and install and run spyder from within that.

5

Thankyou for your response. .

Rich :slight_smile:

6

There’s a new bug report for this specifically:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72913

7

you could do:

sudo pacman -S python-pip
pip install spyder-kernels==2.1.3
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Thanks. . … MedB. . . this worked! Program now loads up and runs. . . . .Thanks for your information.

Rich ;:slight_smile:

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9

Hey guys.

I installed Endeavour OS recently. I tried to install spyder from the Arch Linux Package Repositories using the command

sudo pacman -S spyder

The installation was successful but when I try to initialize spyder from the terminal, it doesn’t initialize at all. The following message was displayed.

File "/home/ashwin/miniconda3/bin/spyder", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
File "/home/ashwin/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder/app/start.py", line 248, in main
    from spyder.app import mainwindow
File "/home/ashwin/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/spyder/app/mainwindow.py", line 57, in <module>
    from qtpy import QtWebEngineWidgets  # analysis:ignore
File "/home/ashwin/miniconda3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/qtpy/QtWebEngineWidgets.py", line 29, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEnginePage
ImportError: /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2: undefined symbol: k5_sname_compare, version krb5_3_MIT

How can this error be rectified?

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Welcome to the EndeavourOS forum. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Did you update EndeavourOS before installing spyder? It looks like some python packages may be out of date.

Try

sudo pacman -Syyu spyder

This will update the entire Operating System.

TIP: Always update the OS before installing new packages. Especially one as large as spyder.

HTH

Pudge

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Thanks Pudge. I tried uninstalling Spyder. Then updated EOS. And then reinstalled Spyder.

But the same error (stated in my previous thread) persists.