Conda activate does not work

[Greedquest]

Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open spyder powershell terminal
2. No env is active (e.g expect (base) PS C:\Users\Username> but just get PS C:\Users\Username> )
3. Run conda activate base - no errors
4. type python to run an interactive session

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

I see this warning:

Python 3.8.8 (default, Apr 13 2021, 15:08:03) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] :: Anaconda, Inc. on win32

Warning:
This Python interpreter is in a conda environment, but the environment has
not been activated.  Libraries may fail to load.  To activate this environment      
please see https://conda.io/activation

Indicating conda activate silently failed.

I would like to use the anaconda prompt from within spyder, or at least to be able to run conda commands/get error info if they fail. My use case is installing new packages to the env or running in python 3.10 env which I can't otherwise since spyder-kernels is <=3.9 so IPython console won't find it.

Versions and main components

• Terminal Version: 1.1.0
• Spyder Version: 5.1.5
• Python Version: 3.9.7
• Operating system: Win 10

[steff456]

Hi @Greedquest,

If you use another backend for the terminal, does the environment activates correctly? I just want to know if this is only happening in powershell or in windows overall.

[Greedquest]

Hey @steff456 no works in cmd just not powershell

[steff456]

I'll try to reproduce this issue on my end