Spyder failed to launch

[spyder-bot]

From lyfjx...@gmail.com on 2014-10-04T09:32:27Z

Please note that reporting bugs from Spyder's help menu ("?" > "Report
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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Spyder worked well.
2. Spyder was terminated when computer power was suddenly off.
3. "D:\Program Files\Python27\pythonw.exe" "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Spyder did not start.

"D:\Program Files\Python27\pythonw.exe" "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder", line 3, in \<module>
    start_app.main()
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\start_app.py", line 85, in main
    if not lock.lock():
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\utils\external\lockfile.py", line 174, in lock
    kill(int(pid), 0)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: invalid decimal Unicode string

"D:\Program Files\Python27\pythonw.exe" "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder" --light
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder", line 3, in \<module>
    start_app.main()
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\start_app.py", line 85, in main
    if not lock.lock():
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\utils\external\lockfile.py", line 174, in lock
    kill(int(pid), 0)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: invalid decimal Unicode string

"D:\Program Files\Python27\pythonw.exe" "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder" --reset
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\scripts\spyder", line 3, in \<module>
    start_app.main()
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\start_app.py", line 85, in main
    if not lock.lock():
  File "D:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\utils\external\lockfile.py", line 174, in lock
    kill(int(pid), 0)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'decimal' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: invalid decimal Unicode string

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? - spyder-2.3.1.win-amd64-py2.7.exe

• Win7 SP1 64-bit
• Python 2.7.8 (default, Jun 30 2014, 16:08:48) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

• pip list
  backports.ssl-match-hostname (3.4.0.2)
  certifi (14.05.14)
  docutils (0.12)
  ipython (2.1.0)
  jinja2 (2.7.3)
  markupsafe (0.23)
  matplotlib (1.4.0)
  numpy (1.9.0)
  Pillow (2.6.0)
  pip (1.5.6)
  Pygments (1.6)
  pyparsing (2.0.2)
  pyreadline (2.0)
  python-dateutil (2.2)
  pytz (2014.7)
  pyzmq (14.3.1)
  scipy (0.14.0)
  setuptools (6.0.2)
  six (1.8.0)
  Sphinx (1.2.3)
  spyder (2.3.1)
  sympy (0.7.5)
  tornado (4.0.2)

Please provide any additional information below

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Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1995

[spyder-bot]

From lyfjx...@gmail.com on 2014-10-05T02:19:39Z

Okay... I solved this issue

by removing the directory: %userprofile%.spyder2\spyder.lock

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2014-11-18T15:23:00Z

Glad to know.

Status: WontFix

[ccordoba12]

This is a duplicate of issue #2363