Re: Conda installation on Windows broken, both minconda & radioconda installer (Was: Please help out a new guy)

[Dave Borch]

Ryan,
You nailed it!  I uninstalled the Pothos SDR environment and when I
reinstalled radioconda I noticed that the installation reset the
Pothos registry settings.  That fixed it.
I really appreciate your help.
Best regards,
Dave

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM Ryan Volz <ryan.volz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I see you've found the relevant GitHub issue for this:
> https://github.com/ryanvolz/radioconda/issues/78
>
> It's still unclear to me exactly what is going wrong here, but it is
> certainly some form of having multiple versions of a library on your
> system (probably Qt, probably installed with other software) and those
> conflicting with each other. Conda environments try to isolate these
> things, but clearly it doesn't always work. Windows, in particular, is
> harder with how it handles DLLs.
>
> The best advice I can give is to try uninstalling other software that
> might make use of Qt.
>
> I won't have a lot of time over the next month to look into this
> further, so sorry ahead of time. It's a high priority issue though that
> I plan on tackling further at some point. Maybe someone else who can
> reproduce can step in and help out until then.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
>
> On 2/29/24 9:53 AM, Dave Borch wrote:
> > Marcus,
> > Many thanks for giving it a shot.
> > Best regards,
> > Dave
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 9:25 AM Marcus Müller <marcus.mueller@ettus.com> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Good Morning!
> >>
> >> I'm looping the mailing list back in, so that more people can look at it!
> >>
> >> So, this looks generally pretty good; you have exactly one environment. 
> >> But: that might
> >> mean when you said you were using miniforge, you might have installed 
> >> things into the same
> >> environment, so that problems stemming from that might persist.
> >>
> >> Hm; aside from trying to make a new environment, activating it and 
> >> installing GNU Radio in
> >> there, my honest assessment is that I'm out of my conda depth!
> >>
> >> I hope someone else on the list has a clever idea.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Marcus
> >>
> >> On 29.02.24 14:54, Dave Borch wrote:
> >>> Good morning, Marcus.
> >>> Here is the result of my query:
> >>>
> >>> (base) C:\Users\Dave>conda info --envs
> >>> # conda environments:
> >>> #
> >>> base                  *  C:\Users\Dave\radioconda
> >>>
> >>> Does this shed any light on the problem?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM Marcus Müller <marcus.mueller@ettus.com> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Dave,
> >>>>
> >>>> welcome to the GNU Radio community! We certainly try to make it 
> >>>> entry-friendly; and the
> >>>> good news is that the errors you're seeing don't seem to be UNIX-related 
> >>>> :)
> >>>>
> >>>> So, I'd have to guess a lot here, but the error you're describing could 
> >>>> mean there's a
> >>>> wrong version of a library being found – which is supporting, usually 
> >>>> *conda installations
> >>>> are quite self-contained!
> >>>>
> >>>> This is but a stab in the dark, but: Is it possible you set up 
> >>>> radioconda, and used the
> >>>> same conda prefix as you used for miniforge? Don't really understand how 
> >>>> that would break,
> >>>> but it's my best guess for now.
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe there's multiple conda environments? Does `conda info --envs` say 
> >>>> something to that end?
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>> Marcus
> >>>>
> >>>> On 27.02.24 22:22, Dave Borch wrote:
> >>>>> Friends,
> >>>>> I'm brand new to Gnu Radio and haven't really used Unix for years. So
> >>>>> please be patient with me here. I loaded Gnu Radio Companion onto my
> >>>>> Windows 10 system and whenever I try to execute a flow graph involving
> >>>>> any of the QT tools I get the following message:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> DLL load failed while importing qtgui_python: The specified procedure
> >>>>> could not be found.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Listed below are the packages that didn't load properly:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Failed \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\
> >>>>> Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\volk.dll
> >>>>> Failed 
> >>>>> \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\Qt5Gui_conda.dll
> >>>>> Failed 
> >>>>> \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\Qt5Gui_conda.dll
> >>>>> Failed 
> >>>>> \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\icuuc73.dll
> >>>>> Failed 
> >>>>> \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\icudt73.dll
> >>>>> Failed 
> >>>>> \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Dave\radioconda\Library\bin\libomp.dll
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I get the same error whether I load radioconda using the radioconda
> >>>>> installer from github or by using miniforge.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Running Gnu Radio Companion on a laptop, also running Windows 10, I
> >>>>> don't experience this problem. I don't experience the problem on my
> >>>>> Raspberry Pi either.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'd be grateful for any help, and please direct me to the appropriate
> >>>>> forum if I'm here in error.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Dave
> >>>>>
> >