Anaconda 4.7.5 - Warning about conda-build <3.18.3 and issues with python packages

conda activate base  # or just conda deactivate
conda update conda-build

(Or simply conda update -n base -c defaults conda-build)

If this doesn't fix, try rolling back to before your update to 4.7.5, as @LeninGF suggests, then removing conda metadata, cleaning up conda, then try the update again i.e.

conda list --revisions  # find number, x, before the update
conda install --revision x
rm -rf ~/.conda
conda clean --all
conda update conda

I just ran into the same problem by updating. The following helped me to recover base environment. I am testing in another environment to see if it works.

conda list --revisions
conda install --revision  dd

Where dd is the number of the revision you wish to go back to

For instance:

conda install --revision 8

This helped me to recover my base conda environment. Unfortunately for the tensorflow environment I had created, I had to re-install. It is also advisable to create a yaml file of your environment once you get it working so you can reinstall anytime. This is done with

conda env export > name.yaml

You need to activate your anaconda environment for that to work and point to a location in your disk where you want to store the file.

For creating the environment from the yaml file just use:

conda env create -f name.yaml

In order to make it easy I attach here the result I get for my tensorflow-gpu environment (you can see I have up to 11 revisions). Not an expert on conda but it seems that revisions work as git, recording your changes and letting you go back to them. However It seems also that it depends on weather you have the back up files of installations in conda environment which probably get lost when you run conda clean command:

(base) leninml@Lenin:~$ conda activate tf_gpu_10
(tf_gpu_10) leninml@Lenin:~$ conda list --revisions
2019-06-26 12:50:10  (rev 0)

2019-06-26 12:59:19  (rev 1)
    +_tflow_select-2.1.0 (anaconda)
    +absl-py-0.7.1 (anaconda)
    +astor-0.7.1 (anaconda)
    +blas-1.0 (anaconda)
    +c-ares-1.15.0 (anaconda)
    +ca-certificates-2019.5.15 (anaconda)
    +certifi-2019.6.16 (anaconda)
    +cudatoolkit-10.0.130 (anaconda)
    +cudnn-7.6.0 (anaconda)
    +cupti-10.0.130 (anaconda)
    +gast-0.2.2 (anaconda)
    +grpcio-1.16.1 (anaconda)
    +h5py-2.9.0 (anaconda)
    +hdf5-1.10.4 (anaconda)
    +intel-openmp-2019.4 (anaconda)
    +keras-applications-1.0.8 (anaconda)
    +keras-preprocessing-1.1.0 (anaconda)
    +libedit-3.1.20181209 (anaconda)
    +libffi-3.2.1 (anaconda)
    +libgcc-ng-9.1.0 (anaconda)
    +libgfortran-ng-7.3.0 (anaconda)
    +libprotobuf-3.8.0 (anaconda)
    +libstdcxx-ng-9.1.0 (anaconda)
    +markdown-3.1.1 (anaconda)
    +mkl-2019.4 (anaconda)
    +mkl_fft-1.0.12 (anaconda)
    +mkl_random-1.0.2 (anaconda)
    +mock-3.0.5 (anaconda)
    +ncurses-6.1 (anaconda)
    +numpy-1.16.4 (anaconda)
    +numpy-base-1.16.4 (anaconda)
    +openssl-1.1.1 (anaconda)
    +pip-19.1.1 (anaconda)
    +protobuf-3.8.0 (anaconda)
    +python-3.7.3 (anaconda)
    +readline-7.0 (anaconda)
    +scipy-1.2.1 (anaconda)
    +setuptools-41.0.1 (anaconda)
    +six-1.12.0 (anaconda)
    +sqlite-3.28.0 (anaconda)
    +tensorboard-1.13.1 (anaconda)
    +tensorflow-1.13.1 (anaconda)
    +tensorflow-base-1.13.1 (anaconda)
    +tensorflow-estimator-1.13.0 (anaconda)
    +tensorflow-gpu-1.13.1 (anaconda)
    +termcolor-1.1.0 (anaconda)
    +tk-8.6.8 (anaconda)
    +werkzeug-0.15.4 (anaconda)
    +wheel-0.33.4 (anaconda)
    +xz-5.2.4 (anaconda)
    +zlib-1.2.11 (anaconda)

2019-06-26 13:00:52  (rev 2)
    +backcall-0.1.0 (anaconda)
    +decorator-4.4.0 (anaconda)
    +ipython-7.5.0 (anaconda)
    +ipython_genutils-0.2.0 (anaconda)
    +jedi-0.13.3 (anaconda)
    +parso-0.4.0 (anaconda)
    +pexpect-4.7.0 (anaconda)
    +pickleshare-0.7.5 (anaconda)
    +prompt_toolkit-2.0.9 (anaconda)
    +ptyprocess-0.6.0 (anaconda)
    +pygments-2.4.2 (anaconda)
    +traitlets-4.3.2 (anaconda)
    +wcwidth-0.1.7 (anaconda)

2019-06-26 13:05:42  (rev 3)
     blas  {1.0 (anaconda) -> 2.7 (conda-forge)}
     ca-certificates  {2019.5.15 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     grpcio  {1.16.1 (anaconda) -> 1.16.1}
     mkl_fft  {1.0.12 (anaconda) -> 1.0.13 (conda-forge)}
     mkl_random  {1.0.2 (anaconda) -> 1.0.4 (conda-forge)}
     numpy  {1.16.4 (anaconda) -> 1.16.4}
     numpy-base  {1.16.4 (anaconda) -> 1.16.4}
     openssl  {1.1.1 (anaconda) -> 1.1.1b (conda-forge)}
     scipy  {1.2.1 (anaconda) -> 1.3.0 (conda-forge)}
    +joblib-0.13.2 (conda-forge)
    +libblas-3.8.0 (conda-forge)
    +libcblas-3.8.0 (conda-forge)
    +liblapack-3.8.0 (conda-forge)
    +liblapacke-3.8.0 (conda-forge)
    +libopenblas-0.3.6
    +openblas-0.3.5 (conda-forge)
    +scikit-learn-0.21.2 (conda-forge)

2019-06-26 13:08:05  (rev 4)
     tk  {8.6.8 (anaconda) -> 8.6.9 (conda-forge)}
    +cycler-0.10.0 (conda-forge)
    +dbus-1.13.6 (conda-forge)
    +expat-2.2.5 (conda-forge)
    +fontconfig-2.13.1 (conda-forge)
    +freetype-2.10.0 (conda-forge)
    +gettext-0.19.8.1 (conda-forge)
    +glib-2.58.3 (conda-forge)
    +gst-plugins-base-1.14.5 (conda-forge)
    +gstreamer-1.14.5 (conda-forge)
    +icu-58.2 (conda-forge)
    +jpeg-9c (conda-forge)
    +kiwisolver-1.1.0 (conda-forge)
    +libiconv-1.15 (conda-forge)
    +libpng-1.6.37 (conda-forge)
    +libuuid-2.32.1 (conda-forge)
    +libxcb-1.13 (conda-forge)
    +libxml2-2.9.9 (conda-forge)
    +matplotlib-3.1.0 (conda-forge)
    +matplotlib-base-3.1.0 (conda-forge)
    +pcre-8.41 (conda-forge)
    +pthread-stubs-0.4 (conda-forge)
    +pyparsing-2.4.0 (conda-forge)
    +pyqt-5.9.2 (conda-forge)
    +python-dateutil-2.8.0 (conda-forge)
    +qt-5.9.7 (conda-forge)
    +sip-4.19.8 (conda-forge)
    +tornado-6.0.3 (conda-forge)
    +xorg-libxau-1.0.9 (conda-forge)
    +xorg-libxdmcp-1.1.3 (conda-forge)

2019-06-26 13:10:31  (rev 5)
     ca-certificates  {2019.6.16 (conda-forge) -> 2019.5.15 (anaconda)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (conda-forge) -> 2019.6.16 (anaconda)}
     openssl  {1.1.1b (conda-forge) -> 1.1.1 (anaconda)}
    +cloudpickle-1.1.1 (anaconda)
    +cytoolz-0.9.0.1 (anaconda)
    +dask-core-1.2.2 (anaconda)
    +imageio-2.5.0 (anaconda)
    +libtiff-4.0.10 (anaconda)
    +networkx-2.3 (anaconda)
    +olefile-0.46 (anaconda)
    +pillow-6.0.0 (anaconda)
    +pywavelets-1.0.3 (anaconda)
    +scikit-image-0.15.0 (anaconda)
    +toolz-0.9.0 (anaconda)
    +zstd-1.3.7 (anaconda)

2019-06-26 13:12:14  (rev 6)
     ca-certificates  {2019.5.15 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     openssl  {1.1.1 (anaconda) -> 1.1.1b (conda-forge)}
    +tensorflow-hub-0.5.0 (conda-forge)

2019-06-26 13:13:00  (rev 7)
     tensorboard  {1.13.1 (anaconda) -> 1.13.1 (conda-forge)}

2019-06-26 13:13:47  (rev 8)
     ca-certificates  {2019.6.16 (conda-forge) -> 2019.5.15 (anaconda)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (conda-forge) -> 2019.6.16 (anaconda)}
     openssl  {1.1.1b (conda-forge) -> 1.1.1 (anaconda)}
    +pandas-0.24.2 (anaconda)
    +pytz-2019.1 (anaconda)

2019-06-26 13:14:36  (rev 9)
     ca-certificates  {2019.5.15 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     openssl  {1.1.1 (anaconda) -> 1.1.1b (conda-forge)}
    +pydicom-1.2.2 (conda-forge)

2019-06-26 13:19:06  (rev 10)
     ca-certificates  {2019.6.16 (conda-forge) -> 2019.5.15 (anaconda)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (conda-forge) -> 2019.6.16 (anaconda)}
     openssl  {1.1.1b (conda-forge) -> 1.1.1 (anaconda)}
    +attrs-19.1.0 (anaconda)
    +bleach-3.1.0 (anaconda)
    +defusedxml-0.6.0 (anaconda)
    +entrypoints-0.3 (anaconda)
    +gmp-6.1.2 (anaconda)
    +ipykernel-5.1.1 (anaconda)
    +ipywidgets-7.4.2 (anaconda)
    +jinja2-2.10.1 (anaconda)
    +jsonschema-3.0.1 (anaconda)
    +jupyter-1.0.0 (anaconda)
    +jupyter_client-5.2.4 (anaconda)
    +jupyter_console-6.0.0 (anaconda)
    +jupyter_core-4.4.0 (anaconda)
    +libsodium-1.0.16 (anaconda)
    +markupsafe-1.1.1 (anaconda)
    +mistune-0.8.4 (anaconda)
    +nbconvert-5.5.0 (anaconda)
    +nbformat-4.4.0 (anaconda)
    +notebook-5.7.8 (anaconda)
    +pandoc-2.2.3.2 (anaconda)
    +pandocfilters-1.4.2 (anaconda)
    +prometheus_client-0.6.0 (anaconda)
    +pyrsistent-0.14.11 (anaconda)
    +pyzmq-18.0.0 (anaconda)
    +qtconsole-4.5.1 (anaconda)
    +send2trash-1.5.0 (anaconda)
    +terminado-0.8.2 (anaconda)
    +testpath-0.4.2 (anaconda)
    +webencodings-0.5.1 (anaconda)
    +widgetsnbextension-3.4.2 (anaconda)
    +zeromq-4.3.1 (anaconda)

2019-06-26 13:33:00  (rev 11)
     ca-certificates  {2019.5.15 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     certifi  {2019.6.16 (anaconda) -> 2019.6.16 (conda-forge)}
     openssl  {1.1.1 (anaconda) -> 1.1.1b (conda-forge)}
    +binutils_impl_linux-64-2.31.1
    +binutils_linux-64-2.31.1
    +gcc_impl_linux-64-7.3.0 (conda-forge)
    +gcc_linux-64-7.3.0 (conda-forge)
    +gxx_impl_linux-64-7.3.0 (conda-forge)
    +gxx_linux-64-7.3.0 (conda-forge)
    +keras-2.2.4 (conda-forge)
    +libgpuarray-0.7.6 (conda-forge)
    +mako-1.0.10 (conda-forge)
    +pygpu-0.7.6 (conda-forge)
    +pyyaml-5.1.1 (conda-forge)
    +theano-1.0.4 (conda-forge)
    +yaml-0.1.7 (conda-forge)

conda update conda-build

Output:

The following packages will be UPDATED:
conda-build                                 3.17.8-py37_0 --> 3.18.5-py37_0

The output of the conda info command (the conda-build has been updated from 3.17.8):

     active environment : None
       user config file : /Users/<user>/.condarc
 populated config files : /Users/<user>/.condarc
          conda version : 4.7.5
    conda-build version : 3.18.5
         python version : 3.7.3.final.0
       virtual packages : 
       base environment : /Users/<user>/anaconda3  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/osx-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/osx-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
          package cache : /Users/<user>/anaconda3/pkgs
                          /Users/<user>/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /Users/<user>/anaconda3/envs
                          /Users/<user>/.conda/envs
               platform : osx-64
             user-agent : conda/4.7.5 requests/2.21.0 CPython/3.7.3 Darwin/18.5.0 OSX/10.14.4
                UID:GID : 501:20
             netrc file : /Users/<user>/.netrc
           offline mode : False