Terminal Activates the Wrong Conda Environment

[yonaroz]

Type: Bug

Behaviour

• Selecting a conda env as the default interpreter of a python project enables it, but after a day or two, the selected environment turns to "base".
• Hovering the shell tab shows the correct path of the env, but for some reason the prompt shows "base" is activated.
• which python also returns the unexpected path.
• Also in the drop down menu selecting the python env, the name of the env with the currect path disaplys "base".
• Clicking "Show Environment Contribution" opens the editor and displays wrong paths and names for the conda env.
• Currently the only resolution for me is to recreate the env untill next time it happens.

Steps to reproduce:

(Working on remote ssh)

1. Create a conda env using conda create -n hello-world python=3.10.
2. Select it in a pyton project.
3. Wait a while (probably something unwanted happens).
4. Open a new shell and all of the above explained unexpected is now shown.
5. A notification pops up every time I open a new shell with this message: "Selected conda environment was successfully activated, even though "(base)" indicator may not be present in the terminal prompt. Learn more."

Diagnostic data

Output for Python in the Output panel (View→Output, change the drop-down the upper-right of the Output panel to Python)

2025-01-06 11:04:24.496 [info] Experiment 'pythonRecommendTensorboardExt' is active
2025-01-06 11:04:24.496 [info] Experiment 'pythonTerminalEnvVarActivation' is active
2025-01-06 11:04:24.496 [info] Experiment 'pythonTestAdapter' is active
2025-01-06 11:04:24.496 [info] Native locator: Refresh started
2025-01-06 11:04:24.496 [info] Native locator: Refresh started
2025-01-06 11:04:25.678 [info] > pyenv which python
2025-01-06 11:04:25.679 [info] cwd: .
2025-01-06 11:04:26.340 [info] > conda info --json
2025-01-06 11:04:26.902 [info] Conda environment manager found at: /usr/local/conda/bin/conda
2025-01-06 11:04:26.940 [info] Conda environment manager found at: /opt/mepy37/bin/conda
2025-01-06 11:04:26.944 [info] Conda environment manager found at: /home/********/yonatanr/.conda/envs/hello-world/bin/conda
2025-01-06 11:04:26.953 [info] Python interpreter path: /home/********/yonatanr/.conda/envs/hello-world/bin/python
2025-01-06 11:04:27.115 [info] > conda info --json
2025-01-06 11:04:27.115 [info] shell: zsh
2025-01-06 11:04:27.521 [info] Native locator: Refresh finished in 4099 ms
2025-01-06 11:04:27.815 [info] > conda run -n base --no-capture-output python ~/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.22.1-linux-x64/python_files/get_output_via_markers.py ~/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.22.1-linux-x64/python_files/printEnvVariables.py
2025-01-06 11:04:27.815 [info] shell: zsh
2025-01-06 11:04:28.580 [info] > python ~/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.22.1-linux-x64/python_files/printEnvVariables.py
2025-01-06 11:04:28.580 [info] shell: zsh
2025-01-06 11:04:28.603 [info] Setting environment variable XML_CATALOG_FILES in collection to file:///usr/local/conda/etc/xml/catalog file:///etc/xml/catalog {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.603 [info] Setting environment variable CONDA_ROOT in collection to /usr/local/conda {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.603 [info] Setting environment variable CONDA_PREFIX in collection to /usr/local/conda {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.604 [info] Setting environment variable CONDA_PROMPT_MODIFIER in collection to (base)  {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.604 [info] Setting environment variable CONDA_SHLVL in collection to 1 {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.604 [info] Setting environment variable CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV in collection to base {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.604 [info] Prepending environment variable PATH in collection with /usr/local/conda/bin: {"applyAtShellIntegration":true,"applyAtProcessCreation":true}
2025-01-06 11:04:28.604 [info] Send text to terminal: python /homes/yonatanr/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.22.1-linux-x64/python_files/printEnvVariablesToFile.py /homes/yonatanr/.vscode-server/extensions/ms-python.python-2024.22.1-linux-x64/python_files/deactivate/zsh/envVars.txt
2025-01-06 11:04:37.702 [info] Starting Pylance language server.

Extension version: 2024.22.1
VS Code version: Code 1.96.2 (fabdb6a30b49f79a7aba0f2ad9df9b399473380f, 2024-12-19T10:22:47.216Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Modes:
Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.15.0-88-generic

• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.10.16
• Type of virtual environment used (e.g. conda, venv, virtualenv, etc.): Conda
• Value of the python.languageServer setting: Default

User Settings

languageServer: "Pylance"

Installed Extensions

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EDIT:
I think it is somehow related to the fact I have a conda bin installed in the hello-world env. It was installed as a dependency of the conda-build package I installed there.

[karthiknadig]

Duplicate of microsoft/python-environment-tools#184

@yonaroz You identified the issue correctly. This occuress due to nested conda. Workaround is to use python.locator as js. The native locator is a new locator that we are switching to, it seems to detect environments that have conda in it as base