Anaconda Navigator tries to open second window, then won't quit and prevents computer from shutting down

[tamjazad]

Actual Behavior

I had Anaconda Navigator running in the background of my computer with JupyterLab running on a custom conda environment; I forgot that I had it running in the background, and went to my Mac's Launchpad to launch Anaconda Navigator. Instead of going to the open window, it showed a second Anaconda-Navigator icon starting right next to the already running icon on my Mac's bottom taskbar, and then proceeded to give a message that the application was not responding. The already running JupyterLab was fully operative during this time. Then, I closed JupyterLab and the original Anaconda-Navigator window, and quit the app from the original icon, but the second icon stayed there and still said application not responding. I tried to force quit the app/icon (even though the original window was closed and gone) and it would not disappear. I tried shutting my Mac off, and this was not possible because this Anaconda-Navigator app was preventing it shutting down because it was unable to quit. I eventually force shut down my Mac using its power button, and when I turned it back on the icon was gone and Anaconda Navigator was operative again.

Expected Behavior

Nothing should happen when I click launch from the apple launchpad with an already running app except to go to an open window of the app or just go to the app in the apple start screen.

Steps to Reproduce

This was largely explained in the "actual behavior section"

Anaconda or Miniconda version:

Anaconda3-2019.10

Operating System:

macOS Catalina 10.15.4

conda info

``` active environment : base active env location : /Users/tamjeedazad/anaconda3 shell level : 1 user config file : /Users/tamjeedazad/.condarc populated config files : /Users/tamjeedazad/.condarc conda version : 4.8.2 conda-build version : 3.18.11 python version : 3.7.6.final.0 virtual packages : __osx=10.15.4 base environment : /Users/tamjeedazad/anaconda3 (writable) channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/osx-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/osx-64 https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch package cache : /Users/tamjeedazad/anaconda3/pkgs /Users/tamjeedazad/.conda/pkgs envs directories : /Users/tamjeedazad/anaconda3/envs /Users/tamjeedazad/.conda/envs platform : osx-64 user-agent : conda/4.8.2 requests/2.22.0 CPython/3.7.6 Darwin/19.4.0 OSX/10.15.4 UID:GID : 501:20 netrc file : None offline mode : False ```

conda list --show-channel-urls

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[jdretz]

I am using conda 4.8.3 and am running macOS Catalina 10.15.6.

I had the same issue. Opened Anaconda Navigator from the terminal despite already having Anaconda Navigator running. I was still able to use my Jupyter Notebooks but then couldn't shut down my laptop. I tried to force quit and looked for an easy process to kill, but couldn't find one.

I wasn't able to force a shutdown, but I was able to restart my laptop. After the restart, Anaconda Navigator was no longer running or in a frozen state.