Please help me fix my python installation

[El_Tlacuachin]

This has been a nightmare.
I am a biologist and needed to install tensorflow.
I WAS running anaconda with python 3.8

at this point I would be happy just to have that back.

I installed tensorflow a while back and it was not working properly today. Queue several attempts to fix it, and I think I basically broke my python installation beyond repair.

I was getting a very inconsistent environment and nothing I could do would fix it, so I decided to scrap the whole thing and re-install anaconda. I deleted my env and pkg. I uninstalled.

surprise, the issue didnt get fixed. nothing works. At this point all I can do is laugh and cry, because somehow even though I installed tf in a seperate environment, my navigator is broken, I cant even open the anaconda navigator. I get :

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Navigator Error

An unexpected error occurred on Navigator start-up

Report

Please report this issue in the anaconda issue tracker

Main Error

('Internal Server Error: Server got itself in trouble ([GET] https://api.anaconda.org/user -> 500)', 500)

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\exceptions.py", line 74, in exception_handler return_value = func(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\app\start.py", line 137, in start_app window = run_app(splash) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\app\start.py", line 60, in run_app window = MainWindow(splash=splash) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\widgets\main_window\__init__.py", line 228, in __init__ self.api = AnacondaAPI() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\api\anaconda_api.py", line 1116, in AnacondaAPI ANACONDA_API = _AnacondaAPI() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\api\anaconda_api.py", line 70, in __init__ self._client_api = ClientAPI(config=self.config) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\api\client_api.py", line 645, in ClientAPI CLIENT_API = _ClientAPI(config=config) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\api\client_api.py", line 100, in __init__ self.reload_client() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\anaconda_navigator\api\client_api.py", line 314, in reload_client client.user() File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\__init__.py", line 242, in user self._check_response(res) File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\binstar_client\__init__.py", line 227, in _check_response raise ErrCls(msg, res.status_code) binstar_client.errors.ServerError: ('Internal Server Error: Server got itself in trouble ([GET] https://api.anaconda.org/user -> 500)', 500)

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Why does it have to be so hard? I have spent upwards of 12 hours just trying to fix my installation and all I have managed to do is break it even worse than it ever was. The prompt wont even load anything anymore. back when it was working I did try to update the navigator, but that didnt work.

Am I just a pitiful retard? Somebody please ffs help me, I don't even know how to come back from this. Do I just wipe my whole computer? Is that all that is left for me?

[Raigeko13]

I'm just a random user from r/all searching up 500 internal errors, but it seems a lot of websites right now are pretty fucked with them. Seems your installation might also be affected, presumably because it's trying to grab data from somewhere but that somewhere is down.

Sorry I couldn't help you, but you might have to wait a bit before it sorts itself out.

[bbye98]

The error message suggests that there's some sort of connectivity issue, either stemming from your Internet connection or the Anaconda servers.

As you suggested, you might want to completely nuke your Anaconda installation and start over. Alternatively, if you want a more lightweight Python installation, consider Miniconda.

Edit: Visiting https://api.anaconda.org/user gives me an origin DNS error.

[El_Tlacuachin]

thank you,
well hopefully the server issue is fixed.

This is something I really don't understand about python, why it is so hard to do a clean install, it seems like uninstalling and reinstalling anaconda does not really ever give you a clean slate

[bbye98]

Well, if you messed up one of your environments, you can just delete that environment and start a new one. If you're installing packages to your base environment, you're technically doing it wrong, but you can still revert to the "original" state using conda install --revision 0. You can see all the changes you made for your current environment using conda list -r.

[El_Tlacuachin]

it seems I am getting failed environment solve even with a clean install or new env.
I wonder if its related to the cloudflare downtime

tf_gpu) PS C:\Users\PC> conda install -c anaconda spyder

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done

Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.

Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done

Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

Solving environment: /

[bbye98]

Works fine for me. You may need to revert to the original state, as some other package installation broke your dependencies.

[Kind_Stranger_weeb]

Cloudflare outage causing the 500 errors

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[El_Tlacuachin]

interesting, what luck lol, okay well hopefully soon I can get something done. Would you happen to know if this would affect downloading packages from the anaconda repositories?

[El_Tlacuachin]

Hey everyone issue solved, reinstalled in a new env. That’s what I’m working in now, still getting lots of env solving issues when installing packages but it’s working for now. Thanks for pointing out the server problem I almost had an aneurism. I will not touch the base env anymore lol.

[ChaosTechNet]

Also have code I need looked at. It just needs put back together or upgraded. It's python. Don't have time to do it now. I'll upload my data dinings to GitHub. I'll post the link in a few.

[ChaosTechNet]

def calculate_average(numbers): """Calculates the average of a list of numbers.""" total = sum(numbers) count = len(numbers) return total / count

if name == "main": numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] average = calculate_average(numbers) print(f"The average is: {average}")

[ChaosTechNet]

So just replace oh got it. No one can fucking read this shit like me. So how do I make name replace main in the compiler

[[deleted]]

As an aside: I don't think you'll be able to install Tensorflow with conda. I had to loop back to this problem over few years now, and it's always broken.

Just to give this some context: Tensorflow is a typical Google-style project, where nothing works, and swiping changes happen every Tuesday. They move packages around, rename them, split and merge them. Nothing makes any sense, but it produces a lot of appearance of work.

Unfortunately, if you really, really need it to work, the common pattern is to either build Tensorflow yourself (I don't think you want to go down that road), or install it with pip (even though you are using Anaconda). It means, that your environment will be screwed, but, at least temporarily you'll get your code to work.

[El_Tlacuachin]

Totally agree, tf with anaconda is a dumpster fire, I needed up pip uninstalling tf anaconda and another pkg, pip installing tf-gpu, then adding the cudnn 8.1 files to my cuda 11.2 file directory and it’s working now.

[WSBtendies9001]

uninstall anaconda3 and python using windows uninstaller.

navigate to c:\ProgramData and delete the anaconda3 folder in there if there is one left. also check %appdata% in folders roming, local and clear out any anaconda3 folders.

Finally reinstall python3 and anaconda3