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`conda info` points to a different base path while called from within Python

Time:11-05

I have observed a strange behaviour:

  1. In my shell I activate a conda environment abc with conda activate abc.
  2. I run conda info --base and obtain a proper path where I installed conda, I get: $HOME/miniconda3.
  3. I start a python interpreter with python
  4. In the interpreter I run: import os and os.system("conda info --base") and this time I get: $HOME/miniconda3/envs/abc, as if the shell from within python believes that the environment which started the interpreter is base now.

Why is this happening? Is there any way to obtain path to the real base environment from within Python?

Comment replies

I just created a the env once again and now the problem is gone... abc is a clean env:

(base) [maciek]$ conda list -n abc
# packages in environment at ***/miniconda3/envs/abc:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel

However, the problematic env had:

# packages in environment at ***/miniconda3/envs/abc-old:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
_libgcc_mutex             0.1                 conda_forge    conda-forge
_openmp_mutex             4.5                       2_gnu    conda-forge
_r-mutex                  1.0.0               anacondar_1    conda-forge
alsa-lib                  1.2.6.1              h7f98852_0    conda-forge
anyio                     3.6.1            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
argon2-cffi               21.3.0             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
argon2-cffi-bindings      21.2.0           py39hb9d737c_2    conda-forge
arpack                    3.7.0                hdefa2d7_2    conda-forge
asttokens                 2.0.5              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
atk-1.0                   2.36.0               h3371d22_4    conda-forge
attrs                     21.4.0             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
babel                     2.9.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
backcall                  0.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
bash                      5.0.018              h14c3975_0    anaconda
bash_kernel               0.7.2            py39hf3d152e_4    conda-forge
beautifulsoup4            4.11.1             pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
binutils_impl_linux-64    2.36.1               h193b22a_2    conda-forge
binutils_linux-64         2.36                hf3e587d_10    conda-forge
black                     22.6.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
bleach                    4.1.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
boa                       0.11.0             pyha770c72_4    conda-forge
brotlipy                  0.7.0           py39hb9d737c_1004    conda-forge
bwidget                   1.9.14               ha770c72_1    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                h7b6447c_0    anaconda
c-ares                    1.18.1               h7f98852_0    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2022.9.24            ha878542_0    conda-forge
cairo                     1.16.0            ha12eb4b_1010    conda-forge
certifi                   2022.9.24          pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
cffi                      1.15.1           py39he91dace_0    conda-forge
chardet                   5.0.0            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
charset-normalizer        2.0.4              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
chrpath                   0.16              h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
clang_variant             1.0                  cling_v0.7    conda-forge
clangdev                  5.0.0             ha35fd46_1011    conda-forge
click                     8.1.3            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
cling                     0.7                  hf817b99_3    conda-forge
colorama                  0.4.5              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
commonmark                0.9.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
conda                     4.14.0           py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
conda-build               3.22.0           py39hf3d152e_2    conda-forge
conda-package-handling    1.9.0            py39hb9d737c_0    conda-forge
coverage                  6.4.2            py39hb9d737c_0    conda-forge
cppzmq                    4.7.1                hf7cf922_2    conda-forge
cryptography              37.0.4           py39hd97740a_0    conda-forge
curl                      7.83.1               h7bff187_0    conda-forge
dataclasses               0.8                pyh6d0b6a4_7    anaconda
dbus                      1.13.18              hb2f20db_0    anaconda
debugpy                   1.6.0            py39h5a03fae_0    conda-forge
decorator                 5.1.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
defusedxml                0.7.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
entrypoints               0.4                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
executing                 0.8.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
expat                     2.4.8                h27087fc_0    conda-forge
fftw                      3.3.10          nompi_h77c792f_102    conda-forge
filelock                  3.8.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
flake8                    4.0.1              pyhd8ed1ab_2    conda-forge
fltk                      1.3.8                h83e168f_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-dejavu-sans-mono 2.37                 hab24e00_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-inconsolata      3.000                h77eed37_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-source-code-pro  2.038                h77eed37_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-ubuntu           0.83                 hab24e00_0    conda-forge
fontconfig                2.13.96              ha180cfb_0    conda-forge
fonts-conda-ecosystem     1                             0    conda-forge
fonts-conda-forge         1                             0    conda-forge
freetype                  2.11.0               h70c0345_0    anaconda
fribidi                   1.0.10               h7b6447c_0    anaconda
future                    0.18.2           py39h06a4308_1    anaconda
gcc_impl_linux-64         9.4.0               h03d3576_16    conda-forge
gcc_linux-64              9.4.0               h391b98a_10    conda-forge
gdk-pixbuf                2.42.8               hff1cb4f_0    conda-forge
gettext                   0.21.0               hf68c758_0    anaconda
gfortran_impl_linux-64    9.4.0               h0003116_16    conda-forge
gfortran_linux-64         9.4.0               hf0ab688_10    conda-forge
ghostscript               9.54.0               h27087fc_2    conda-forge
giflib                    5.2.1                h36c2ea0_2    conda-forge
git                       2.34.1          pl5262hc120c5b_0    anaconda
gl2ps                     1.4.2                h0708190_0    conda-forge
glib                      2.72.1               h6239696_0    conda-forge
glib-tools                2.72.1               h6239696_0    conda-forge
glob2                     0.7                        py_0    anaconda
glpk                      4.65              h9202a9a_1004    conda-forge
gmp                       6.2.1                h58526e2_0    conda-forge
gnuplot                   5.4.3                hedd7fda_0    conda-forge
graphicsmagick            1.3.37               hdc87540_0    conda-forge
graphite2                 1.3.14               h295c915_1    anaconda
gsl                       2.7                  he838d99_0    conda-forge
gst-plugins-base          1.20.3               hf6a322e_0    conda-forge
gstreamer                 1.20.3               hd4edc92_0    conda-forge
gtk2                      2.24.33              h539f30e_1    conda-forge
gxx_impl_linux-64         9.4.0               h03d3576_16    conda-forge
gxx_linux-64              9.4.0               h0316aca_10    conda-forge
harfbuzz                  3.4.0                hb4a5f5f_0    conda-forge
hdf5                      1.12.1          nompi_h2386368_104    conda-forge
icu                       69.1                 h9c3ff4c_0    conda-forge
idna                      3.3                pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
importlib-metadata        4.11.4           py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
importlib_metadata        4.11.4               hd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
importlib_resources       5.8.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
iniconfig                 1.1.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
ipykernel                 6.15.1             pyh210e3f2_0    conda-forge
ipyparallel               8.4.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ipython                   8.4.0            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
ipython_genutils          0.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_1    anaconda
ipywidgets                7.6.5              pyhd3eb1b0_1    anaconda
jedi                      0.18.1           py39hf3d152e_1    conda-forge
jinja2                    3.0.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
joblib                    1.2.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jpeg                      9e                   h7f8727e_0    anaconda
json5                     0.9.6              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
jsonschema                4.7.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyter                   1.0.0            py39hf3d152e_7    conda-forge
jupyter_client            7.3.4              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyter_console           6.4.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
jupyter_core              4.10.0           py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
jupyter_server            1.18.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab                3.4.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab_pygments       0.1.2                      py_0    anaconda
jupyterlab_server         2.15.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jupyterlab_widgets        1.0.0              pyhd3eb1b0_1    anaconda
kernel-headers_linux-64   2.6.32              he073ed8_15    conda-forge
keyutils                  1.6.1                h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
krb5                      1.19.3               h3790be6_0    conda-forge
ld_impl_linux-64          2.36.1               hea4e1c9_2    conda-forge
lerc                      3.0                  h9c3ff4c_0    conda-forge
libarchive                3.5.2                hccf745f_1    conda-forge
libblas                   3.9.0           13_linux64_openblas    conda-forge
libcblas                  3.9.0           13_linux64_openblas    conda-forge
libclang                  13.0.1          default_hc23dcda_0    conda-forge
libcurl                   7.83.1               h7bff187_0    conda-forge
libdeflate                1.12                 h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
libedit                   3.1.20191231         he28a2e2_2    conda-forge
libev                     4.33                 h516909a_1    conda-forge
libevent                  2.1.10               h9b69904_4    conda-forge
libffi                    3.4.2                h295c915_4    anaconda
libflac                   1.3.4                h27087fc_0    conda-forge
libgcc                    7.2.0                h69d50b8_2    anaconda
libgcc-devel_linux-64     9.4.0               hd854feb_16    conda-forge
libgcc-ng                 12.1.0              h8d9b700_16    conda-forge
libgd                     2.3.3                h283352f_2    conda-forge
libgfortran-ng            12.1.0              h69a702a_16    conda-forge
libgfortran5              12.1.0              hdcd56e2_16    conda-forge
libglib                   2.72.1               h2d90d5f_0    conda-forge
libglu                    9.0.0             he1b5a44_1001    conda-forge
libgomp                   12.1.0              h8d9b700_16    conda-forge
libiconv                  1.16                 h7f8727e_2    anaconda
liblapack                 3.9.0           13_linux64_openblas    conda-forge
liblapacke                3.9.0           13_linux64_openblas    conda-forge
liblief                   0.12.2               h27087fc_0    conda-forge
libllvm13                 13.0.1               hf817b99_2    conda-forge
libmamba                  0.25.0               hd8a31e3_2    conda-forge
libmambapy                0.25.0           py39hd55135b_2    conda-forge
libnghttp2                1.47.0               h727a467_0    conda-forge
libnsl                    2.0.0                h7f98852_0    conda-forge
libogg                    1.3.4                h7f98852_1    conda-forge
libopenblas               0.3.18          pthreads_h8fe5266_0    conda-forge
libopus                   1.3.1                h7f98852_1    conda-forge
libpng                    1.6.37               hbc83047_0    anaconda
libpq                     14.3                 hd77ab85_0    conda-forge
libsanitizer              9.4.0               h79bfe98_16    conda-forge
libsndfile                1.0.31               h9c3ff4c_1    conda-forge
libsodium                 1.0.18               h7b6447c_0    anaconda
libsolv                   0.7.22               h6239696_0    conda-forge
libssh2                   1.10.0               ha56f1ee_2    conda-forge
libstdcxx-devel_linux-64  9.4.0               hd854feb_16    conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng              12.1.0              ha89aaad_16    conda-forge
libtiff                   4.4.0                hc85c160_1    conda-forge
libuuid                   2.32.1            h7f98852_1000    conda-forge
libvorbis                 1.3.7                h9c3ff4c_0    conda-forge
libwebp                   1.2.2                h3452ae3_0    conda-forge
libwebp-base              1.2.2                h7f8727e_0    anaconda
libxcb                    1.13              h7f98852_1004    conda-forge
libxkbcommon              1.0.3                he3ba5ed_0    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.9.12               h885dcf4_1    conda-forge
libzlib                   1.2.12               h166bdaf_2    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.9.3                h295c915_1    anaconda
lzo                       2.10              h516909a_1000    conda-forge
make                      4.3                  hd18ef5c_1    conda-forge
mamba                     0.25.0           py39hfa8f2c8_2    conda-forge
markupsafe                2.1.1            py39hb9d737c_1    conda-forge
matplotlib-inline         0.1.2              pyhd3eb1b0_2    anaconda
mccabe                    0.6.1                      py_1    conda-forge
metakernel                0.29.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
metis                     5.1.0             h58526e2_1006    conda-forge
mistune                   0.8.4           py39h3811e60_1005    conda-forge
mpfr                      4.1.0                h9202a9a_1    conda-forge
mypy                      0.941            py39hb9d737c_0    conda-forge
mypy_extensions           0.4.3            py39hf3d152e_5    conda-forge
mysql-common              8.0.29               haf5c9bc_1    conda-forge
mysql-libs                8.0.29               h28c427c_1    conda-forge
nbclassic                 0.3.5              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
nbclient                  0.6.4              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
nbconvert                 6.5.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
nbconvert-core            6.5.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
nbconvert-pandoc          6.5.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
nbformat                  5.4.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ncurses                   6.3                  h27087fc_1    conda-forge
nest-asyncio              1.5.5              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
nlohmann_json             3.9.1                h9c3ff4c_1    conda-forge
notebook                  6.4.12             pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
nspr                      4.32                 h9c3ff4c_1    conda-forge
nss                       3.78                 h2350873_0    conda-forge
octave                    7.1.0                h8cb3778_1    conda-forge
octave_kernel             0.34.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
openssl                   1.1.1s               h166bdaf_0    conda-forge
packaging                 21.3               pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pandoc                    2.18                 ha770c72_0    conda-forge
pandocfilters             1.5.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pango                     1.48.10              h4dcc4a0_3    conda-forge
parso                     0.8.3              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
patch                     2.7.6             h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
patchelf                  0.15.0               h58526e2_0    conda-forge
pathspec                  0.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pcre                      8.45                 h295c915_0    anaconda
pcre2                     10.37                h032f7d1_0    conda-forge
perl                      5.32.1          2_h7f98852_perl5    conda-forge
pexpect                   4.8.0              pyhd3eb1b0_3    anaconda
pickleshare               0.7.5           pyhd3eb1b0_1003    anaconda
pip                       22.1.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pixman                    0.40.0               h7f8727e_1    anaconda
pkginfo                   1.8.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
platformdirs              2.4.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pluggy                    1.0.0            py39hf3d152e_3    conda-forge
ply                       3.11                       py_1    conda-forge
portalocker               2.5.1            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
portaudio                 19.6.0               h57a0ea0_5    conda-forge
prometheus_client         0.13.1             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
prompt-toolkit            3.0.20             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
prompt_toolkit            3.0.20               hd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
psutil                    5.9.1            py39hb9d737c_0    conda-forge
pthread-stubs             0.4               h36c2ea0_1001    conda-forge
ptyprocess                0.7.0              pyhd3eb1b0_2    anaconda
pugixml                   1.11.4               h295c915_1    anaconda
pure_eval                 0.2.2              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
py                        1.11.0             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
py-lief                   0.12.2           py39h5a03fae_0    conda-forge
pybind11-abi              4                    hd8ed1ab_3    conda-forge
pycodestyle               2.8.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pycosat                   0.6.3           py39hb9d737c_1010    conda-forge
pycparser                 2.21               pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pydocstyle                6.1.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pyflakes                  2.4.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pygments                  2.11.2             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pyopenssl                 22.0.0             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pyparsing                 3.0.4              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
pyqt                      5.12.3           py39hf3d152e_7    conda-forge
pyqt-impl                 5.12.3           py39h0fcd23e_7    conda-forge
pyqt5-sip                 4.19.18          py39he80948d_7    conda-forge
pyqtchart                 5.12             py39h0fcd23e_7    conda-forge
pyqtwebengine             5.12.1           py39h0fcd23e_7    conda-forge
pyrsistent                0.18.1           py39hb9d737c_1    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.7.1            py39hf3d152e_5    conda-forge
pytest                    7.1.2            py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
python                    3.9.13          h9a8a25e_0_cpython    conda-forge
python-dateutil           2.8.2              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
python-fastjsonschema     2.15.1             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
python-libarchive-c       4.0              py39hf3d152e_1    conda-forge
python_abi                3.9                      2_cp39    conda-forge
pytz                      2022.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
pyyaml                    6.0              py39hb9d737c_4    conda-forge
pyzmq                     23.2.0           py39headdf64_0    conda-forge
qhull                     2020.2               h4bd325d_2    conda-forge
qscintilla2               2.11.2           py39h5a03fae_6    conda-forge
qt                        5.12.9               h1304e3e_6    conda-forge
qtconsole                 5.3.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
qtconsole-base            5.3.1              pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
qtpy                      2.0.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
r-base                    4.1.2                hde4fec0_0    conda-forge
r-base64enc               0.1_3           r41hcfec24a_1004    conda-forge
r-cli                     3.3.0             r41h7525677_0    conda-forge
r-crayon                  1.5.1             r41hc72bb7e_0    conda-forge
r-digest                  0.6.29            r41h03ef668_0    conda-forge
r-ellipsis                0.3.2             r41hcfec24a_0    conda-forge
r-evaluate                0.15              r41hc72bb7e_0    conda-forge
r-fansi                   1.0.3             r41h06615bd_0    conda-forge
r-fastmap                 1.1.0             r41h03ef668_0    conda-forge
r-glue                    1.6.2             r41h06615bd_0    conda-forge
r-htmltools               0.5.3             r41h7525677_0    conda-forge
r-irdisplay               1.1               r41hd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
r-irkernel                1.3               r41hc72bb7e_0    conda-forge
r-jsonlite                1.8.0             r41h06615bd_0    conda-forge
r-lifecycle               1.0.1             r41hc72bb7e_0    conda-forge
r-magrittr                2.0.3             r41h06615bd_0    conda-forge
r-pbdzmq                  0.3_7             r41h42bf92c_0    conda-forge
r-pillar                  1.8.0             r41hc72bb7e_0    conda-forge
r-repr                    1.1.4             r41h785f33e_0    conda-forge
r-rlang                   1.0.4             r41h7525677_0    conda-forge
r-rzmq                    0.9.8             r41h42bf92c_0    conda-forge
r-stringi                 1.7.6             r41h337692f_1    conda-forge
r-stringr                 1.4.0             r41hc72bb7e_2    conda-forge
r-utf8                    1.2.2             r41hcfec24a_0    conda-forge
r-uuid                    1.1_0             r41h06615bd_0    conda-forge
r-vctrs                   0.4.1             r41h7525677_0    conda-forge
readline                  8.1                  h46c0cb4_0    conda-forge
reproc                    14.2.4               h295c915_1    anaconda
reproc-cpp                14.2.4               h295c915_1    anaconda
requests                  2.28.1             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
rich                      12.6.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
ripgrep                   13.0.0               h2f28480_2    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml               0.17.21          py39hb9d737c_1    conda-forge
ruamel.yaml.clib          0.2.6            py39h7f8727e_0    anaconda
ruamel_yaml               0.15.80         py39hb9d737c_1007    conda-forge
sed                       4.8                  he412f7d_0    conda-forge
send2trash                1.8.0              pyhd3eb1b0_1    anaconda
seshat                    0.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
setuptools                63.2.0           py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
shellingham               1.3.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
sip                       6.6.2            py39h5a03fae_0    conda-forge
six                       1.16.0             pyhd3eb1b0_1    anaconda
sniffio                   1.2.0            py39hf3d152e_3    conda-forge
snowballstemmer           2.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
soupsieve                 2.3.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
sqlite                    3.38.5               hc218d9a_0    anaconda
stack_data                0.2.0              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
suitesparse               5.10.1               h9e50725_1    conda-forge
sundials                  6.2.0                h1b77dab_0    conda-forge
sysroot_linux-64          2.12                he073ed8_15    conda-forge
tbb                       2021.5.0             h924138e_1    conda-forge
terminado                 0.15.0           py39hf3d152e_0    conda-forge
testpath                  0.6.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
texinfo                   6.8             pl5321h46c0cb4_1    conda-forge
tinycss2                  1.1.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.12               h1ccaba5_0    anaconda
tktable                   2.10                 hb7b940f_3    conda-forge
toml                      0.10.2             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tomli                     2.0.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
toolz                     0.12.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
tornado                   6.2              py39hb9d737c_0    conda-forge
tqdm                      4.64.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
traitlets                 5.1.1              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
typed-ast                 1.5.4            py39hb9d737c_0    conda-forge
typer                     0.4.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
types-toml                0.10.8             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
typing-extensions         4.1.1                hd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
typing_extensions         4.1.1              pyh06a4308_0    anaconda
tzdata                    2022a                hda174b7_0    anaconda
urllib3                   1.26.10            pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
watchgod                  0.8.2              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
wcwidth                   0.2.5              pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
webencodings              0.5.1                      py_1    conda-forge
websocket-client          1.3.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
wheel                     0.37.1             pyhd3eb1b0_0    anaconda
widgetsnbextension        3.5.2            py39hf3d152e_1    conda-forge
xeus                      0.25.3               h78d96c3_1    conda-forge
xeus-cling                0.11.0               h5a79028_0    conda-forge
xorg-fixesproto           5.0               h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
xorg-kbproto              1.0.7             h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
xorg-libice               1.0.10               h7f98852_0    conda-forge
xorg-libsm                1.2.3             hd9c2040_1000    conda-forge
xorg-libx11               1.7.2                h7f98852_0    conda-forge
xorg-libxau               1.0.9                h7f98852_0    conda-forge
xorg-libxdmcp             1.1.3                h7f98852_0    conda-forge
xorg-libxext              1.3.4                h7f98852_1    conda-forge
xorg-libxfixes            5.0.3             h7f98852_1004    conda-forge
xorg-libxrender           0.9.10            h7f98852_1003    conda-forge
xorg-libxt                1.2.1                h7f98852_2    conda-forge
xorg-renderproto          0.11.1            h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
xorg-xextproto            7.3.0             h7f98852_1002    conda-forge
xorg-xproto               7.0.31            h7f98852_1007    conda-forge
xtl                       0.6.23               h4bd325d_1    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.5                h7f8727e_1    anaconda
yaml                      0.2.5                h7f98852_2    conda-forge
yaml-cpp                  0.7.0                h295c915_1    anaconda
zeromq                    4.3.4                h2531618_0    anaconda
zipp                      3.8.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
zlib                      1.2.12               h7f8727e_2    anaconda
zstd                      1.5.2                ha4553b6_0    anaconda

CodePudding user response:

I can only reproduce this behavior in the case that the abc environment has the conda package installed.

$ mamba create -yn foo python
$ mamba run -n foo python -c 'import os; os.system("conda info --base")'
/Users/mfansler/miniconda3

$ mamba create -yn bar conda
$ mamba run -n bar python -c 'import os; os.system("conda info --base")'
/Users/mfansler/miniconda3/envs/bar

The conda package should only ever be installed in base. One should generally not use base for development, and subsequently, it shouldn't really be used to conda clone new environments. which may be how abc was created in OP.

Removing the conda package should end this aberrant behavior.

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