my virtual environment cannot be found

Question

I'm on a PC windows 10 and always open git bash, then source activate my-env and open a jupyter notebook; somehow my-env broke and I get this error:

"C:\bld\conda_1565126647711_h_env/etc/profile.d/conda.sh: No such file or directory"

Also, I cannot activate "my-env" in a jupyter notebook and I'm getting a "kernal error" in jupyter; but I am able to activate the environment from command prompt.

I've tried:

• typing the entire file path into bash
• deleting the env in bash
• deleting the env from command prompt (still can activate it from CMD)
• opening jupyter from CMD; still get the kernal error there
• echo ". C:\Users\mngav\Anaconda3\etc\profile.d\conda.sh" >> ~\.bashrc which worked for a colleague but was not successful for me.

Should I just hard reset my comp and set up the environment form scratch?

Answer 1

Ok, so I'm by no means good at this, but I think I figured out a work-around.

In the "activate" file located H:\anaconda3\Scripts\activate I first changed the path in _CONDA_ROOTto point to my conda folder H:\anaconda3 in my case. (I have no idea what the bld paths are for but that's what messed things up for me)

Then in the file H:\anaconda3\etc\profile.d\conda.sh I changed export CONDA_EXE to point to my conda.exe location; H:\anaconda3\Scripts\conda.exe

Then in git bash I was able to use source activate myenv and it seems to be working fine again.

This issue happened to me after updating my anaconda navigator. I was hoping that would not mess up my normal workflow of using git bash for most things but I guess it did.

P.S. I was not able to use source activate in the windows command prompt but conda activate works. Not sure if this is related though.