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There is an instance of anaconda navigator already running error

Previously my anaconda navigator was not responding so I have rebooted my computer and now when I am trying to open anaconda navigator it pop-ups an error with "there is an instance of anaconda navigator already running".

OS: Windows 10

This is a message on pop up window

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Dipesh Bajgain Avatar asked Apr 28 '18 18:04

Dipesh Bajgain


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2 Answers

I met the same problem a few days ago. I found the anaconda navigator will start a process called pythonw. So the following is my solution:

  1. open a cmd window;
  2. use command tasklist | findstr "pythonw" to find the pid of pythonw, like 37200;
  3. use command tskill 37200 to kill the process.

By the way, my OS is Windows.

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Zhikun Luo Avatar answered Sep 24 '22 09:09

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I got the same error in MAC. logoff & login did not resolve the issue and the below command solved my issue in mac. Restart not required.

killall python 
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Duvaragesh Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 09:09

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