[FIXED] Jupyter Notebook dead Kernel after Anaconda update

Issue

I got the following problem. After update Anaconda because I got an error to import skimage.io to a project in Jupyter Notebook an even a greater error appear - Dead Kernel. Right now I could not ever start a project because the Jupyter gives the following error is:

Copy/paste this URL into your browser when you connect for the first time,
to login with a token:
    http://localhost:8888/? 
token=aaf85a5e18489792c87cce65d7a53a0263cd5c08cc7248b 6
[I 00:55:13.451 NotebookApp] Accepting one-time-token-authenticated 
connection from ::1
[I 00:55:31.607 NotebookApp] Kernel started: 608d2190-59e6-4888-b09a- 
e616f67bd5b4
Traceback (most recent call last):
ERROR:tornado.general:Uncaught exception in ZMQStream callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\zmq\eventloop\zmqstream.py", line 432, in _run_callback
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\tornado\stack_context.py", line 276, in null_wrapper
return fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelbase.py", 
line 283, in dispatcher
return self.dispatch_shell(stream, msg)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelbase.py", 
line 233, in dispatch_shell
self.pre_handler_hook()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelbase.py", 
line 248, in pre_handler_hook
self.saved_sigint_handler = signal(SIGINT, default_int_handler)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\signal.py", line 47, in signal
handler = _signal.signal(_enum_to_int(signalnum), _enum_to_int(handler))
ValueError: signal only works in main thread  File "C:\Program 
Files\Anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)

File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel_launcher.py", 
line 16, in <module>
app.launch_new_instance()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 658, in launch_instance
app.start()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelapp.py", 
line 477, in start
ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\tornado\platform\asyncio.py", line 112, in start
self.asyncio_loop.run_forever()
ERROR:tornado.general:Uncaught exception in zmqstream callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\zmq\eventloop\zmqstream.py", line 450, in _handle_events
self._handle_recv()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\zmq\eventloop\zmqstream.py", line 480, in _handle_recv
self._run_callback(callback, msg)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\zmq\eventloop\zmqstream.py", line 432, in _run_callback
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site- 
packages\tornado\stack_context.py", line 276, in null_wrapper
return fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelbase.py", 
line 283, in dispatcher
return self.dispatch_shell(stream, msg)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelbase.py", 
line 233, in dispatch_shell
self.pre_handler_hook()
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\kernelbase.py", 
line 248, in pre_handler_hook
self.saved_sigint_handler = signal(SIGINT, default_int_handler)
File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\signal.py", line 47, in signal
handler = _signal.signal(_enum_to_int(signalnum), _enum_to_int(handler))
ValueError: signal only works in main thread  File "C:\Program   
Files\Anaconda3\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 409, in run_forever

Solution

After trying a lot of "quick fixes" - uninstall and install Jupyter packages and etc., the only way was to uninstall and install Anaconda from the beginning. If you are not afraid to install all the packages from scratch (in my case was not necessary) this solution is the best.

Answered By - default_settings