Error on start.

Description

What steps will reproduce the problem?

When I switch spyder on it always gives this error.

Traceback

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\psutil\_pswindows.py", line 679, in wrapper
    return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\psutil\_pswindows.py", line 868, in send_signal
    cext.proc_kill(self.pid)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\manager.py", line 394, in shutdown_kernel
    self.finish_shutdown()
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\manager.py", line 346, in finish_shutdown
    self._kill_kernel()
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\ipythonconsole\utils\manager.py", line 86, in _kill_kernel
    self.kill_proc_tree(self.kernel.pid)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder\plugins\ipythonconsole\utils\manager.py", line 59, in kill_proc_tree
    child_process.send_signal(sig)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\psutil\__init__.py", line 289, in wrapper
    return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\psutil\__init__.py", line 1218, in send_signal
    self._proc.send_signal(sig)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\psutil\_pswindows.py", line 681, in wrapper
    raise convert_oserror(err, pid=self.pid, name=self._name)
psutil.AccessDenied: psutil.AccessDenied (pid=20712)

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.1.5
• Python version: 3.8.5
• Qt version: 5.9.7
• PyQt5 version: 5.9.2
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0           :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                :  3.0.4 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0            :  1.6.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111    :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree                   :  None (OK)
IPython >=4.0                  :  7.19.0 (OK)
jedi =0.17.1                   :  0.17.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                :  6.0.7 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0               :  1.1.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0               :  2.7.2 (OK)
parso =0.7.0                   :  0.7.0 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4              :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                   :  5.7.2 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                 :  2.7.2 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                   :  2.6.0 (OK)
pyls >=0.34.0;<1.0.0           :  0.35.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.8               :  2.8.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7              :  1.0.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.6.0              :  4.7.7 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                   :  1.9.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                  :  0.9.4 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                 :  3.2.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.9.4;<1.10.0 :  1.9.4 (OK)
watchdog                       :  None (OK)
zmq >=17                       :  19.0.2 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                  :  0.29.21 (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0             :  3.3.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                    :  1.19.2 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1                :  1.1.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                 :  1.5.2 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                  :  1.6.2 (OK)

[Devendra-Umbrajkar]

Thanks for the tip!

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:29 PM Carlos Cordoba @.***> wrote:

I don’t know what happens then. You probably need to wait until the next version of Anaconda to get a more recent Spyder version. Or you can remove and reinstall Anaconda if you want to see if the update is successful after that.

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[ccordoba12]

I don’t know what happens then. You probably need to wait until the next version of Anaconda to get a more recent Spyder version. Or you can remove and reinstall Anaconda if you want to see if the update is successful after that.