External system terminal crashing and weird behavior

[sinisadruzeta]

Issue Report Checklist

• [x] Searched the issues page for similar reports
• [x] Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• [x] Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• [ ] Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
• [x] Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
  • [x] Restarted Spyder
  • [x] Reset preferences with spyder --reset
  • [x] Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
  • [ ] Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
• [x] Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

Running any script in external system terminal results in terminal weird behavior and crashing.

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Set "Execute in an external system terminal" option and optionally the "Interact..." checkbox in Run -> Configuration per file...
2. Run any script with the option(s) set as said above.

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

If the "Interact..." checkbox is NOT checked, the external terminal does not do anything for a couple of seconds and then the prompt waits for further interaction in the working directory. If the "Interact..." checkbox IS checked the terminal also waits a couple of seconds and then crashes.

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.4.3 (conda)
• Python version: 3.11.5 64-bit
• Qt version: 5.15.2
• PyQt5 version: 5.15.7
• Operating System: Windows 10

Dependencies

# Mandatory:
atomicwrites >=1.2.0                             :  1.4.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0                                  :  4.0.0 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0                              :  2.2.1 (OK)
cookiecutter >=1.6.0                             :  1.7.3 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111                      :  20200713 (OK)
intervaltree >=3.0.2                             :  3.1.0 (OK)
IPython >=7.31.1,<9.0.0,!=8.8.0,!=8.9.0,!=8.10.0 :  8.15.0 (OK)
jedi >=0.17.2,<0.19.0                            :  0.18.1 (OK)
jellyfish >=0.7                                  :  1.0.1 (OK)
jsonschema >=3.2.0                               :  4.17.3 (OK)
keyring >=17.0.0                                 :  23.13.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0                                  :  6.5.4 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0                                 :  1.5.0 (OK)
paramiko >=2.4.0                                 :  2.8.1 (OK)
parso >=0.7.0,<0.9.0                             :  0.8.3 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0                                  :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4                                :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=5.3                                     :  5.9.0 (OK)
pygments >=2.0                                   :  2.15.1 (OK)
pylint >=2.5.0,<3.0                              :  2.16.2 (OK)
pylint_venv >=2.1.1                              :  2.3.0 (OK)
pyls_spyder >=0.4.0                              :  0.4.0 (OK)
pylsp >=1.7.2,<1.8.0                             :  1.7.2 (OK)
pylsp_black >=1.2.0                              :  1.2.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=3.0.2,<3.2.0                        :  3.0.2 (OK)
qstylizer >=0.2.2                                :  0.2.2 (OK)
qtawesome >=1.2.1                                :  1.2.2 (OK)
qtconsole >=5.4.2,<5.5.0                         :  5.4.2 (OK)
qtpy >=2.1.0                                     :  2.2.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.9.7                                    :  1.0.1 (OK)
setuptools >=49.6.0                              :  68.0.0 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6                                   :  5.0.2 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=2.4.3,<2.5.0                    :  2.4.4 (OK)
textdistance >=4.2.0                             :  4.2.1 (OK)
three_merge >=0.1.1                              :  0.1.1 (OK)
watchdog >=0.10.3                                :  2.1.6 (OK)
zmq >=22.1.0                                     :  23.2.0 (OK)

# Optional:
cython >=0.21                                    :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=3.0.0                               :  3.7.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                                      :  1.24.3 (OK)
pandas >=1.1.1                                   :  2.0.3 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0                                   :  1.11.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                                    :  1.11.1 (OK)

[sinisadruzeta]

OK, found the problem. I specified pythonw.exe for the interpreter instead of python.exe. Weird that it worked for the consoles in Spyder.