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conda 23.11 breaks Windows shortcuts, e.g. to Spyder #167

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schtandard opened this issue Dec 7, 2023 · 8 comments · Fixed by #168
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conda 23.11 breaks Windows shortcuts, e.g. to Spyder #167

schtandard opened this issue Dec 7, 2023 · 8 comments · Fixed by #168
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os::windows relevant to Windows severity::1 blocker; broken functionality with no workaround source::community catch-all for issues filed by community members type::bug describes erroneous operation, use severity::* to classify the type

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schtandard commented Dec 7, 2023 •
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What happened?

After updating to conda 23.11 the shortcut to open Spyder in the Windows start menu (automatically placed there by conda install spyder) does not work anymore. I assume that this applies to similar shortcuts of other packages to, though I tested it only with Spyder.

How to reproduce

  • Download the miniconda installer from here and install it on Windows. It currently installs conda version 23.10.
  • Add the conda-forge channel: conda config --add channels conda-forge.
  • Create an environment with Spyder: conda create -n testenv spyder.
  • This will create a shortcut "Spyder (testenv)" in the Windows start menu.
  • Click that shortcut, it will open Spyder.
  • Close Spyder.
  • Update conda: conda update --all (in base environment). This should update to conda version 23.11.
  • Click the Spyder shortcut again.
  • Nothing happens.

Note that the update does not change the Spyder version or even anything in testenv, so this can't be an issue on their end, I think. Also you can still start Spyder from the command line (conda activate testenv && spyder), so Spyder itself is not broken by the update. I assume that something in the commands called by the shortcut is broken.

Conda Details

conda info 
active environment : None
       user config file : C:\Users\username\.condarc
 populated config files : C:\Users\username\.condarc
          conda version : 23.11.0
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.11.5.final.0
                 solver : libmamba (default)
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=x86_64
                          __conda=23.11.0=0
                          __win=0=0
       base environment : C:\Users\username\miniconda3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : C:\Users\username\miniconda3\etc\conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/win-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
          package cache : C:\Users\username\miniconda3\pkgs
                          C:\Users\username\.conda\pkgs
                          C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       envs directories : C:\Users\username\miniconda3\envs
                          C:\Users\username\.conda\envs
                          C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
               platform : win-64
             user-agent : conda/23.11.0 requests/2.31.0 CPython/3.11.5 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19045 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/23.11.1 libmambapy/1.5.4
          administrator : False
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False
conda config 
==> C:\Users\username\.condarc <==
channels:
  - conda-forge
  - defaults
conda list 
# packages in environment at C:\Users\username\miniconda3:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
archspec                  0.2.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
boltons                   23.0.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
brotli-python             1.1.0           py311h12c1d0e_1    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                hcfcfb64_5    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2023.11.17           h56e8100_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2023.11.17         pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
cffi                      1.16.0          py311ha68e1ae_0    conda-forge
charset-normalizer        3.3.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
colorama                  0.4.6              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda                     23.11.0         py311h1ea47a8_1    conda-forge
conda-content-trust       0.2.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda-libmamba-solver     23.11.1            pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
conda-package-handling    2.2.0              pyh38be061_0    conda-forge
conda-package-streaming   0.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
console_shortcut_miniconda 0.1.1                haa95532_1
cryptography              41.0.7          py311h7cb4080_1    conda-forge
distro                    1.8.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
fmt                       10.1.1               h181d51b_1    conda-forge
idna                      3.6                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jsonpatch                 1.33               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jsonpointer               2.4             py311h1ea47a8_3    conda-forge
krb5                      1.21.2               heb0366b_0    conda-forge
libarchive                3.7.2                h6f8411a_0    conda-forge
libcurl                   8.5.0                hd5e4a3a_0    conda-forge
libffi                    3.4.4                hd77b12b_0
libiconv                  1.17                 h8ffe710_0    conda-forge
libmamba                  1.5.4                h3f09ed1_0    conda-forge
libmambapy                1.5.4           py311h0317a69_0    conda-forge
libsolv                   0.7.27               h12be248_0    conda-forge
libsqlite                 3.44.2               hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
libssh2                   1.11.0               h7dfc565_0    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.11.6               hc3477c8_0    conda-forge
libzlib                   1.2.13               hcfcfb64_5    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.9.4                hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
lzo                       2.10              he774522_1000    conda-forge
menuinst                  2.0.0           py311h12c1d0e_1    conda-forge
openssl                   3.2.0                hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
packaging                 23.2               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pcre2                     10.42                h17e33f8_0    conda-forge
pip                       23.3.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
platformdirs              4.1.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pluggy                    1.3.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
powershell_shortcut_miniconda 0.0.1                haa95532_1
pybind11-abi              4                    hd8ed1ab_3    conda-forge
pycosat                   0.6.6           py311ha68e1ae_0    conda-forge
pycparser                 2.21               pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pyopenssl                 23.3.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.7.1              pyh0701188_6    conda-forge
python                    3.11.5               he1021f5_0
python_abi                3.11                    2_cp311    conda-forge
reproc                    14.2.4.post0         hcfcfb64_1    conda-forge
reproc-cpp                14.2.4.post0         h63175ca_1    conda-forge
requests                  2.31.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml               0.18.5          py311ha68e1ae_0    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml.clib          0.2.7           py311ha68e1ae_2    conda-forge
setuptools                68.2.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
sqlite                    3.44.2               hcfcfb64_0    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.13               h5226925_1    conda-forge
tqdm                      4.66.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
truststore                0.8.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tzdata                    2023c                h71feb2d_0    conda-forge
ucrt                      10.0.22621.0         h57928b3_0    conda-forge
urllib3                   2.1.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
vc                        14.3                h64f974e_17    conda-forge
vc14_runtime              14.36.32532         hdcecf7f_17    conda-forge
vs2015_runtime            14.36.32532         h05e6639_17    conda-forge
wheel                     0.42.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
win_inet_pton             1.1.0              pyhd8ed1ab_6    conda-forge
xz                        5.4.2                h8cc25b3_0
yaml-cpp                  0.8.0                h63175ca_0    conda-forge
zlib                      1.2.13               hcfcfb64_5    conda-forge
zstandard                 0.22.0          py311he5d195f_0    conda-forge
zstd                      1.5.5                h12be248_0    conda-forge
@schtandard schtandard added the type::bug describes erroneous operation, use severity::* to classify the type label Dec 7, 2023
@kenodegard kenodegard transferred this issue from conda/conda Dec 7, 2023
@kenodegard kenodegard added source::community catch-all for issues filed by community members severity::1 blocker; broken functionality with no workaround labels Dec 7, 2023
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What happens if you reinstall spyder conda install -n testenv --force-reinstall spyder or recreate the env?

@kenodegard kenodegard added the os::windows relevant to Windows label Dec 7, 2023
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Still doesn't work. I also tried updating conda first and only then creating the environment, which gave the same result.

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jezdez commented Dec 8, 2023

This is probably related to menuinst 2.x being dependend on in 23.11.0. @jaimergp Please take a look at this.

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pythonic2020 commented Dec 8, 2023 •
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Not sure if this is related, but menuinst 2.0.0 removed the _legacy package which is called by cwp.py from miniconda.

cwp.py:

from menuinst._legacy.knownfolders import FOLDERID, get_folder_path

When menuinst 2.0.0 is installed, change the above to:

from menuinst.knownfolders import FOLDERID, get_folder_path

All shoftcuts that use cwp.py will be broken until this change is made to cwp.py.

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@pythonic2020 good catch! I've opened #168 to address this issue

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2.0.1 will be cut soon, addressing this issue. Thanks for the report, investigation and patience!

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Has it been verified that the import error is the only cause of this issue? I was about to start a new issue with the same problem (but with shortcuts to my own packages) reporting that I think the error is related to the switch to argparse when I found this.

I have not been the best about keeping conda up to date so this presented itself to my when I went to set up a new machine with our software thus I don't know exactly when it was introduced. I created shortcuts as I have on other machines, but they didn't work. I then attempted to run the shortcut command manually on the terminal (using python instead of pythonw:python [Anaconda install location]\cwp.py [environment prefix] [environment prefix]pythonw -m [my.module]) and got this error:

usage: cwp.py [-h] [--no-console] prefix [args ...] cwp.py: error: unrecognized arguments: -m [my.module]

I know cwp.py was switched to argparse back in March of 2023 and this issue wasn't reported until December, but I don't know how long those changes would take to propagate to users to be reported and thus if I have the same issue as here or a new one. If this constitutes it's own issue, let me know and I will make one.

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Yes, might be due to the change to argparse. Please open a new issue so we can investigate. Thanks!

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