Spyder crashes with Segmentation fault: 11 when Mac goes to sleep

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Hello - I’ve seen some similar issues like, but nothing that exactly fits what I’m experiencing.

Problem Description

spyder crashes when computer goes to sleep. Error message is segmentation fault: 11

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Launch spyder from terminal spyder3
2. Everything is fine all day as I’m using it.
3. Close laptop, computer goes to sleep.
4. Come back the next day, spyder has crashed, with the message Segmentation fault: 11 in the terminal.
5. This happens every day

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect it not to happen

Paste Traceback/Error Below (if applicable)

Since spyder has crashed, there are no logs to copy.

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.1.4
• Python version: 3.7.7
• Qt version: 5.12.9
• PyQt version: 5.12.3
• Operating System name/version: MacOS Catalina 10.15.6

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
applaunchservices >=0.1.7      :  0.2.1 (OK)
atomicwrites >=1.2.0           :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                :  3.0.4 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0            :  1.5.0 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111    :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree                   :  None (OK)
IPython >=4.0                  :  7.16.1 (OK)
jedi =0.17.1                   :  0.17.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                :  5.6.1 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0               :  1.1.0 (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                 :  2.6.1 (OK)
pylint >=1.0                   :  2.5.3 (OK)
pyls >=0.34.0;<1.0.0           :  0.34.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.8               :  2.8.1 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7              :  0.7.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.6.0              :  4.7.5 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                   :  1.9.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                 :  3.1.2 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.9.2;<1.10.0 :  1.9.2 (OK)
watchdog                       :  None (OK)
zmq >=17                       :  19.0.1 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                  :  None (OK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0             :  None (OK)
numpy >=1.7                    :  1.19.0 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1                :  1.0.5 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                 :  1.5.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                  :  None (OK)

[laurajanem]

Sure, that’s fine.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 6:15 PM Carlos Cordoba [e-mail] wrote:

@laurajanem https://github.com/laurajanem, since there’s nothing else we can do at the moment and you’re unable to use Anaconda (which is our recommended installation method), is it ok if we close this issue?

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[ccordoba12]

@laurajanem, since there’s nothing else we can do at the moment and you’re unable to use Anaconda (which is our recommended installation method), is it ok if we close this issue?