I have just installed Anaconda on my Windows 7 machine. I am now trying to set up a virtual environment to work from for my project. The first problem I think I have already fixed is the proxy settings in the .conarc file. I did this by following the instructions in the following answer to the question Running conda with proxy. However, when I try to create a new environment, I am now running into the following error message "Invalid IPv6 URL". Can anyone advise how to solve this?
Copy of the error report below:
# >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ERROR REPORT <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", lin
e 1062, in __call__
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line
84, in _main
exit_code = do_call(args, p)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\conda_argparse.
py", line 82, in do_call
exit_code = getattr(module, func_name)(args, parser)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main_create.py"
, line 37, in execute
install(args, parser, 'create')
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\install.py", li
ne 256, in install
force_reinstall=context.force_reinstall or context.force,
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", lin
e 112, in solve_for_transaction
force_remove, force_reinstall)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", lin
e 150, in solve_for_diff
force_remove)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", lin
e 249, in solve_final_state
ssc = self._collect_all_metadata(ssc)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\common\io.py", line
88, in decorated
return f(*args, **kwds)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", lin
e 389, in _collect_all_metadata
index, r = self._prepare(prepared_specs)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\solve.py", lin
e 974, in _prepare
self.subdirs, prepared_specs, self._repodata_fn)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\index.py", lin
e 214, in get_reduced_index
repodata_fn=repodata_fn)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py
", line 91, in query_all
result = tuple(concat(executor.map(subdir_query, channel_urls)))
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 586,
in result_iterator
yield fs.pop().result()
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 432,
in result
return self.__get_result()
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\_base.py", line 384,
in __get_result
raise self._exception
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 57,
in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py
", line 87, in <lambda>
package_ref_or_match_spec))
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py
", line 96, in query
self.load()
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py
", line 160, in load
_internal_state = self._load()
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py
", line 234, in _load
repodata_fn=self.repodata_fn)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\core\subdir_data.py
", line 471, in fetch_repodata_remote_request
timeout=timeout)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", li
ne 546, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", li
ne 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", li
ne 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", li
ne 412, in send
conn = self.get_connection(request.url, proxies)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", li
ne 304, in get_connection
proxy = prepend_scheme_if_needed(proxy, 'http')
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\utils.py", line
895, in prepend_scheme_if_needed
scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment = urlparse(url, new_scheme
)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\parse.py", line 368, in urlparse
splitresult = urlsplit(url, scheme, allow_fragments)
File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\urllib\parse.py", line 432, in urlsplit
raise ValueError("Invalid IPv6 URL")
ValueError: Invalid IPv6 URL
`$ C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\conda-script.py create --name py37 python=3.
7`
environment variables:
CIO_TEST=<not set>
CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV=base
CONDA_EXE=C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\condabin\..\Scripts\conda.exe
CONDA_EXES="C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\condabin\..\Scripts\conda.ex
e"
CONDA_PREFIX=C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER=(base)
CONDA_PYTHON_EXE=C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\python.exe
CONDA_ROOT=C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
CONDA_SHLVL=1
HOMEPATH=\Users\a08056114
PATH=C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Libr
ary\mingw-w64\bi
n;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\ProgramD
ata\Anaconda3\Li
brary\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\ProgramD
ata\Anaconda3\bi
n;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Li
brary\mingw-w64\
bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Library\usr\bin;C:\Progra
mData\Anaconda3\
Library\bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\Progra
mData\Anaconda3\
bin;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\condabin;C:\WINDOWS\syste
m32;C:\WINDOWS;C
:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPow
erShell\v1.0;C:\
WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\Sys
tem32\WindowsPow
erShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.
0;C:\WINDOWS\Sys
tem32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Windo
wsPowerShell\v1.
0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Progra
m Files
(x86)\Enterprise Vault\EVClient;C:\Program Files
(x86)\OpenText\Viewer\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Sennh
eiser\SoftphoneS
DK;C:\Users\a08056114\Documents\Software\snap\bin
PLMVIS_82_LIBPATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPgui\Program
PSMODULEPATH=C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\WINDOWS\
system32\Windows
PowerShell\v1.0\Modules
REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=<not set>
SSL_CERT_FILE=<not set>
active environment : base
active env location : C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3
shell level : 1
user config file : C:\Users\a08056114\.condarc
populated config files : C:\Users\a08056114\.condarc
conda version : 4.7.10
conda-build version : 3.18.8
python version : 3.7.3.final.0
virtual packages : __cuda=7.0
base environment : C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3 (read only)
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:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\a08056114\.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\a08056114\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Users\a08056114\.conda\envs
C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs
C:\Users\a08056114\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/4.7.10 requests/2.22.0 CPython/3.7.3 Windows/7 W
indows/6.1.7601
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
An unexpected error has occurred. Conda has prepared the above report.
If submitted, this report will be used by core maintainers to improve
future releases of conda.
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[y/N]:
In case it helps anyone else. I discovered the proxy in fact hadn't been set properly and this was still the cause of the issue. The reason it wasn't set properly is because I had the character # in my password. Once I changed my password to remove all the #'s it worked.