I am using Anaconda to conduct data analysis in Python using Spyder. I've been doing so with no trouble for while now, installing packages, updating packages/Spyder/etc., but after updating Spyder, I now receive an error message when launching Spyder from within Anaconda.
C:\Users\jdoe>chcp 1252
Active code page: 1252
C:\Users\jdoe>call C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3
(base) C:\Users\jdoe>spyder 1>nul 2>nul
This terminal window appears, then closes itself and Spyder along with it.
If I open a terminal window from within Anaconda and type spyder, I am able to launch the app successfully. But launching from Anaconda Navigator fails, and I don't understand this error message or how to fix it, nor have I been able to find anything relating to this issue in searching. Any help understanding what is going on and how to correct this would be appreciated.
conda info report if useful:
(base) C:\Users\jdoe>conda info
active environment : base
active env location : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3
shell level : 1
user config file : C:\Users\jdoe\.condarc
populated config files : C:\Users\jdoe\.condarc
conda version : 4.10.1
conda-build version : 3.18.11
python version : 3.8.3.final.0
virtual packages : __win=0=0
__archspec=1=x86_64
base environment : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\etc\conda
conda av metadata url : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main
channel URLs : 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\jdoe\Anaconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\jdoe\.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\jdoe\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Users\jdoe\Anaconda3\envs
C:\Users\jdoe\.conda\envs
C:\Users\jdoe\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/4.10.1 requests/2.25.1 CPython/3.8.3 Windows/10 Windows/10.0.19041
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : False