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conda installation of lsst-sims-photUtils deleted conda binary #68

Closed rhiannonlynne closed 8 years ago

rhiannonlynne commented 8 years ago

Matthew Graham (@doccosmos) tried to install lsst-sims-photUtils on a mac running Yosemite (10.10.5), with a relatively recent version of anaconda2 (python 2.7.10).

The install did some terribly bad things, rendering the anaconda installation unusable. He reports it deleted his ~/anaconda/bin/conda binary (and ~/anaconda/bin/python link).

The instructions he was following to install lsst-sims-photUtils are pretty standard: conda config --add channels http://eupsforge.net/conda/dev conda install lsst-sims-photUtils conda install lsst-sims-maps

I haven't heard of this happening before, but I guess most people install lsst-sims or lsst-sims-maf. I tried to reproduce it on my yosemite mac, downloading a new version of anaconda and then doing - conda install lsst-sims-photUtils but was unable to reproduce the failure.

Any ideas? What other information do we need to try to diagnose the problem? Rendering anaconda itself unusable is not a desirable outcome.

mjuric commented 8 years ago

@doccosmos: was there anything peculiar with your install of Anaconda? E.g., is there anything in this issue you may think is relevant to your system?

mjuric commented 8 years ago

Also, could you paste the contents of your anaconda2/pkgs directory (we're trying to reproduce the problem).

doccosmos commented 8 years ago

Unfortunately I had to wipe the whole old anaconda installation to get a new one in place and so do not have this information any more. One of the tasks conda suggested when I did: conda install lsst-sims-photUtils - was an update of conda itself.

mjuric commented 8 years ago

What about https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/1685? Did you ever do any tarball installs, or anything else tha would be out of the ordinary?

Right now my thinking is that this is more likely to be a conda bug than something on our end -- conda is fully in control of the install process. I'd still like to understand what happened.

mjuric commented 8 years ago

Also, did you try installing with the new version of Anaconda that you installed after this mess?

doccosmos commented 8 years ago

I've never initiated a tarball install myself but it's always possible that conda has done this itself when doing an update. I have not yet tried installing the LSST stuff on the new anaconda - I'll try that tomorrow when I'm back in office.

mjuric commented 8 years ago

I'm closing this, assuming it was an upstream Anaconda problem. But do reopen if there's more for us to investigate.