Newbie question, I keep getting a dead kernel warning when trying to run pandas

Hi, I’m trying to learn python, and can’t get notebook to run pandas, from my research its probably a python conflict but I can’t work out how to fix it?

really grateful for any help thanks in advance

I have put my jupyter troubleshooter below

$PATH:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/bin
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/condabin
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

sys.path:
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/bin
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/lib/python37.zip
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aeosa

sys.executable:
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/bin/python

sys.version:
3.7.6 (default, Jan 8 2020, 13:42:34)
[Clang 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)]

platform.platform():
Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

which -a jupyter:
/Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3/bin/jupyter

pip list:
Package Version
---------------------------------- -------------------
alabaster 0.7.12
anaconda-client 1.7.2
anaconda-navigator 1.9.12
anaconda-project 0.8.3
applaunchservices 0.2.1
appnope 0.1.0
appscript 1.0.1
argh 0.26.2
asn1crypto 1.3.0
astroid 2.3.3
astropy 4.0
atomicwrites 1.3.0
attrs 19.3.0
autopep8 1.4.4
Babel 2.8.0
backcall 0.1.0
backports.functools-lru-cache 1.6.1
backports.shutil-get-terminal-size 1.0.0
backports.tempfile 1.0
backports.weakref 1.0.post1
beautifulsoup4 4.8.2
bitarray 1.2.1
bkcharts 0.2
bleach 3.1.0
bokeh 1.4.0
boto 2.49.0
Bottleneck 1.3.2
certifi 2019.11.28
cffi 1.14.0
chardet 3.0.4
Click 7.0
cloudpickle 1.3.0
clyent 1.2.2
colorama 0.4.3
conda 4.8.2
conda-build 3.18.11
conda-package-handling 1.6.0
conda-verify 3.4.2
contextlib2 0.6.0.post1
cryptography 2.8
cycler 0.10.0
Cython 0.29.15
cytoolz 0.10.1
dask 2.11.0
decorator 4.4.1
defusedxml 0.6.0
diff-match-patch 20181111
distributed 2.11.0
docutils 0.16
entrypoints 0.3
et-xmlfile 1.0.1
fastcache 1.1.0
filelock 3.0.12
flake8 3.7.9
Flask 1.1.1
fsspec 0.6.2
future 0.18.2
gevent 1.4.0
glob2 0.7
gmpy2 2.0.8
greenlet 0.4.15
h5py 2.10.0
HeapDict 1.0.1
html5lib 1.0.1
hypothesis 5.5.4
idna 2.8
imageio 2.6.1
imagesize 1.2.0
importlib-metadata 1.5.0
intervaltree 3.0.2
ipykernel 5.1.4
ipython 7.12.0
ipython-genutils 0.2.0
ipywidgets 7.5.1
isort 4.3.21
itsdangerous 1.1.0
jdcal 1.4.1
jedi 0.14.1
Jinja2 2.11.1
joblib 0.14.1
json5 0.9.1
jsonschema 3.2.0
jupyter 1.0.0
jupyter-client 5.3.4
jupyter-console 6.1.0
jupyter-core 4.6.1
jupyterlab 1.2.6
jupyterlab-server 1.0.6
keyring 21.1.0
kiwisolver 1.1.0
lazy-object-proxy 1.4.3
libarchive-c 2.8
lief 0.9.0
llvmlite 0.31.0
locket 0.2.0
lxml 4.5.0
MarkupSafe 1.1.1
matplotlib 3.1.3
mccabe 0.6.1
mistune 0.8.4
mkl-fft 1.0.15
mkl-random 1.1.0
mkl-service 2.3.0
mock 4.0.1
more-itertools 8.2.0
mpmath 1.1.0
msgpack 0.6.1
multipledispatch 0.6.0
navigator-updater 0.2.1
nbconvert 5.6.1
nbformat 5.0.4
networkx 2.4
nltk 3.4.5
nose 1.3.7
notebook 6.0.3
numba 0.48.0
numexpr 2.7.1
numpy 1.18.1
numpydoc 0.9.2
olefile 0.46
openpyxl 3.0.3
packaging 20.1
pandas 1.0.1
pandocfilters 1.4.2
parso 0.5.2
partd 1.1.0
path 13.1.0
pathlib2 2.3.5
pathtools 0.1.2
patsy 0.5.1
pep8 1.7.1
pexpect 4.8.0
pickleshare 0.7.5
Pillow 7.0.0
pip 20.0.2
pkginfo 1.5.0.1
pluggy 0.13.1
ply 3.11
prometheus-client 0.7.1
prompt-toolkit 3.0.3
psutil 5.6.7
ptyprocess 0.6.0
py 1.8.1
pycodestyle 2.5.0
pycosat 0.6.3
pycparser 2.19
pycrypto 2.6.1
pycurl 7.43.0.5
pydocstyle 4.0.1
pyflakes 2.1.1
Pygments 2.5.2
pylint 2.4.4
pyodbc 4.0.0-unsupported
pyOpenSSL 19.1.0
pyparsing 2.4.6
pyrsistent 0.15.7
PySocks 1.7.1
pytest 5.3.5
pytest-arraydiff 0.3
pytest-astropy 0.8.0
pytest-astropy-header 0.1.2
pytest-doctestplus 0.5.0
pytest-openfiles 0.4.0
pytest-remotedata 0.3.2
python-dateutil 2.8.1
python-jsonrpc-server 0.3.4
python-language-server 0.31.7
pytz 2019.3
PyWavelets 1.1.1
PyYAML 5.3
pyzmq 18.1.1
QDarkStyle 2.8
QtAwesome 0.6.1
qtconsole 4.6.0
QtPy 1.9.0
requests 2.22.0
rope 0.16.0
Rtree 0.9.3
ruamel-yaml 0.15.87
scikit-image 0.16.2
scikit-learn 0.22.1
scipy 1.4.1
seaborn 0.10.0
Send2Trash 1.5.0
setuptools 46.0.0.post20200309
simplegeneric 0.8.1
singledispatch 3.4.0.3
six 1.14.0
snowballstemmer 2.0.0
sortedcollections 1.1.2
sortedcontainers 2.1.0
soupsieve 1.9.5
Sphinx 2.4.0
sphinxcontrib-applehelp 1.0.1
sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.1
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 1.0.2
sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1
sphinxcontrib-qthelp 1.0.2
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.3
sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.2.0
spyder 4.0.1
spyder-kernels 1.8.1
SQLAlchemy 1.3.13
statsmodels 0.11.0
sympy 1.5.1
tables 3.6.1
tblib 1.6.0
terminado 0.8.3
testpath 0.4.4
toolz 0.10.0
tornado 6.0.3
tqdm 4.42.1
traitlets 4.3.3
ujson 1.35
unicodecsv 0.14.1
urllib3 1.25.8
watchdog 0.10.2
wcwidth 0.1.8
webencodings 0.5.1
Werkzeug 1.0.0
wheel 0.34.2
widgetsnbextension 3.5.1
wrapt 1.11.2
wurlitzer 2.0.0
xlrd 1.2.0
XlsxWriter 1.2.7
xlwings 0.17.1
xlwt 1.3.0
xmltodict 0.12.0
yapf 0.28.0
zict 1.0.0
zipp 2.2.0

conda list:
# packages in environment at /Users/nicksmith/opt/anaconda3:
#
# Name Version Build Channel
_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf 0.1.0 py37_0
alabaster 0.7.12 py37_0
anaconda 2020.02 py37_0
anaconda-client 1.7.2 py37_0
anaconda-navigator 1.9.12 py37_0
anaconda-project 0.8.4 py_0
applaunchservices 0.2.1 py_0
appnope 0.1.0 py37_0
appscript 1.1.0 py37h1de35cc_0
argh 0.26.2 py37_0
asn1crypto 1.3.0 py37_0
astroid 2.3.3 py37_0
astropy 4.0 py37h1de35cc_0
atomicwrites 1.3.0 py37_1
attrs 19.3.0 py_0
autopep8 1.4.4 py_0
babel 2.8.0 py_0
backcall 0.1.0 py37_0
backports 1.0 py_2
backports.functools_lru_cache 1.6.1 py_0
backports.shutil_get_terminal_size 1.0.0 py37_2
backports.tempfile 1.0 py_1
backports.weakref 1.0.post1 py_1
beautifulsoup4 4.8.2 py37_0
bitarray 1.2.1 py37h1de35cc_0
bkcharts 0.2 py37_0
blas 1.0 mkl
bleach 3.1.0 py37_0
blosc 1.16.3 hd9629dc_0
bokeh 1.4.0 py37_0
boto 2.49.0 py37_0
bottleneck 1.3.2 py37h776bbcc_0
bzip2 1.0.8 h1de35cc_0
ca-certificates 2020.1.1 0
certifi 2019.11.28 py37_0
cffi 1.14.0 py37hb5b8e2f_0
chardet 3.0.4 py37_1003
click 7.0 py37_0
cloudpickle 1.3.0 py_0
clyent 1.2.2 py37_1
colorama 0.4.3 py_0
conda 4.8.2 py37_0
conda-build 3.18.11 py37_0
conda-env 2.6.0 1
conda-package-handling 1.6.0 py37h1de35cc_0
conda-verify 3.4.2 py_1
contextlib2 0.6.0.post1 py_0
cryptography 2.8 py37ha12b0ac_0
curl 7.68.0 ha441bb4_0
cycler 0.10.0 py37_0
cython 0.29.15 py37h0a44026_0
cytoolz 0.10.1 py37h1de35cc_0
dask 2.11.0 py_0
dask-core 2.11.0 py_0
dbus 1.13.12 h90a0687_0
decorator 4.4.1 py_0
defusedxml 0.6.0 py_0
diff-match-patch 20181111 py_0
distributed 2.11.0 py37_0
docutils 0.16 py37_0
entrypoints 0.3 py37_0
et_xmlfile 1.0.1 py37_0
expat 2.2.6 h0a44026_0
fastcache 1.1.0 py37h1de35cc_0
filelock 3.0.12 py_0
flake8 3.7.9 py37_0
flask 1.1.1 py_0
freetype 2.9.1 hb4e5f40_0
fsspec 0.6.2 py_0
future 0.18.2 py37_0
get_terminal_size 1.0.0 h7520d66_0
gettext 0.19.8.1 h15daf44_3
gevent 1.4.0 py37h1de35cc_0
glib 2.63.1 hd977a24_0
glob2 0.7 py_0
gmp 6.1.2 hb37e062_1
gmpy2 2.0.8 py37h6ef4df4_2
greenlet 0.4.15 py37h1de35cc_0
h5py 2.10.0 py37h3134771_0
hdf5 1.10.4 hfa1e0ec_0
heapdict 1.0.1 py_0
html5lib 1.0.1 py37_0
hypothesis 5.5.4 py_0
icu 58.2 h4b95b61_1
idna 2.8 py37_0
imageio 2.6.1 py37_0
imagesize 1.2.0 py_0
importlib_metadata 1.5.0 py37_0
intel-openmp 2019.4 233
intervaltree 3.0.2 py_0
ipykernel 5.1.4 py37h39e3cac_0
ipython 7.12.0 py37h5ca1d4c_0
ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py37_0
ipywidgets 7.5.1 py_0
isort 4.3.21 py37_0
itsdangerous 1.1.0 py37_0
jbig 2.1 h4d881f8_0
jdcal 1.4.1 py_0
jedi 0.14.1 py37_0
jinja2 2.11.1 py_0
joblib 0.14.1 py_0
jpeg 9b he5867d9_2
json5 0.9.1 py_0
jsonschema 3.2.0 py37_0
jupyter 1.0.0 py37_7
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keyring 21.1.0 py37_0
kiwisolver 1.1.0 py37h0a44026_0
krb5 1.17.1 hddcf347_0
lazy-object-proxy 1.4.3 py37h1de35cc_0
libarchive 3.3.3 h786848e_5
libcurl 7.68.0 h051b688_0
libcxx 4.0.1 hcfea43d_1
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libffi 3.2.1 h475c297_4
libgfortran 3.0.1 h93005f0_2
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libpng 1.6.37 ha441bb4_0
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mccabe 0.6.1 py37_1
mistune 0.8.4 py37h1de35cc_0
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mkl_fft 1.0.15 py37h5e564d8_0
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mock 4.0.1 py_0
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mpmath 1.1.0 py37_0
msgpack-python 0.6.1 py37h04f5b5a_1
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navigator-updater 0.2.1 py37_0
nbconvert 5.6.1 py37_0
nbformat 5.0.4 py_0
ncurses 6.2 h0a44026_0
networkx 2.4 py_0
nltk 3.4.5 py37_0
nose 1.3.7 py37_2
notebook 6.0.3 py37_0
numba 0.48.0 py37h6c726b0_0
numexpr 2.7.1 py37hce01a72_0
numpy 1.18.1 py37h7241aed_0
numpy-base 1.18.1 py37h6575580_1
numpydoc 0.9.2 py_0
olefile 0.46 py37_0
openpyxl 3.0.3 py_0
openssl 1.1.1d h1de35cc_4
packaging 20.1 py_0
pandas 1.0.1 py37h6c726b0_0
pandoc 2.2.3.2 0
pandocfilters 1.4.2 py37_1
parso 0.5.2 py_0
partd 1.1.0 py_0
path 13.1.0 py37_0
path.py 12.4.0 0
pathlib2 2.3.5 py37_0
pathtools 0.1.2 py_1
patsy 0.5.1 py37_0
pcre 8.43 h0a44026_0
pep8 1.7.1 py37_0
pexpect 4.8.0 py37_0
pickleshare 0.7.5 py37_0
pillow 7.0.0 py37h4655f20_0
pip 20.0.2 py37_1
pkginfo 1.5.0.1 py37_0
pluggy 0.13.1 py37_0
ply 3.11 py37_0
prometheus_client 0.7.1 py_0
prompt_toolkit 3.0.3 py_0
psutil 5.6.7 py37h1de35cc_0
ptyprocess 0.6.0 py37_0
py 1.8.1 py_0
py-lief 0.9.0 py37h1413db1_2
pycodestyle 2.5.0 py37_0
pycosat 0.6.3 py37h1de35cc_0
pycparser 2.19 py37_0
pycrypto 2.6.1 py37h1de35cc_9
pycurl 7.43.0.5 py37ha12b0ac_0
pydocstyle 4.0.1 py_0
pyflakes 2.1.1 py37_0
pygments 2.5.2 py_0
pylint 2.4.4 py37_0
pyodbc 4.0.30 py37h0a44026_0
pyopenssl 19.1.0 py37_0
pyparsing 2.4.6 py_0
pyqt 5.9.2 py37h655552a_2
pyrsistent 0.15.7 py37h1de35cc_0
pysocks 1.7.1 py37_0
pytables 3.6.1 py37h5bccee9_0
pytest 5.3.5 py37_0
pytest-arraydiff 0.3 py37h39e3cac_0
pytest-astropy 0.8.0 py_0
pytest-astropy-header 0.1.2 py_0
pytest-doctestplus 0.5.0 py_0
pytest-openfiles 0.4.0 py_0
pytest-remotedata 0.3.2 py37_0
python 3.7.6 h359304d_2
python-dateutil 2.8.1 py_0
python-jsonrpc-server 0.3.4 py_0
python-language-server 0.31.7 py37_0
python-libarchive-c 2.8 py37_13
python.app 2 py37_10
pytz 2019.3 py_0
pywavelets 1.1.1 py37h1de35cc_0
pyyaml 5.3 py37h1de35cc_0
pyzmq 18.1.1 py37h0a44026_0
qdarkstyle 2.8 py_0
qt 5.9.7 h468cd18_1
qtawesome 0.6.1 py_0
qtconsole 4.6.0 py_1
qtpy 1.9.0 py_0
readline 7.0 h1de35cc_5
requests 2.22.0 py37_1
ripgrep 11.0.2 he32d670_0
rope 0.16.0 py_0
rtree 0.9.3 py37_0
ruamel_yaml 0.15.87 py37h1de35cc_0
scikit-image 0.16.2 py37h6c726b0_0
scikit-learn 0.22.1 py37h27c97d8_0
scipy 1.4.1 py37h9fa6033_0
seaborn 0.10.0 py_0
send2trash 1.5.0 py37_0
setuptools 46.0.0 py37_0
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sip 4.19.8 py37h0a44026_0
six 1.14.0 py37_0
snappy 1.1.7 he62c110_3
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sortedcollections 1.1.2 py37_0
sortedcontainers 2.1.0 py37_0
soupsieve 1.9.5 py37_0
sphinx 2.4.0 py_0
sphinxcontrib 1.0 py37_1
sphinxcontrib-applehelp 1.0.1 py_0
sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.1 py_0
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 1.0.2 py_0
sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1 py_0
sphinxcontrib-qthelp 1.0.2 py_0
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.3 py_0
sphinxcontrib-websupport 1.2.0 py_0
spyder 4.0.1 py37_0
spyder-kernels 1.8.1 py37_0
sqlalchemy 1.3.13 py37h1de35cc_0
sqlite 3.31.1 ha441bb4_0
statsmodels 0.11.0 py37h1de35cc_0
sympy 1.5.1 py37_0
tbb 2020.0 h04f5b5a_0
tblib 1.6.0 py_0
terminado 0.8.3 py37_0
testpath 0.4.4 py_0
tk 8.6.8 ha441bb4_0
toolz 0.10.0 py_0
tornado 6.0.3 py37h1de35cc_3
tqdm 4.42.1 py_0
traitlets 4.3.3 py37_0
ujson 1.35 py37h1de35cc_0
unicodecsv 0.14.1 py37_0
unixodbc 2.3.7 h1de35cc_0
urllib3 1.25.8 py37_0
watchdog 0.10.2 py37h1de35cc_0
wcwidth 0.1.8 py_0
webencodings 0.5.1 py37_1
werkzeug 1.0.0 py_0
wheel 0.34.2 py37_0
widgetsnbextension 3.5.1 py37_0
wrapt 1.11.2 py37h1de35cc_0
wurlitzer 2.0.0 py37_0
xlrd 1.2.0 py37_0
xlsxwriter 1.2.7 py_0
xlwings 0.17.1 py37_0
xlwt 1.3.0 py37_0
xmltodict 0.12.0 py_0
xz 5.2.4 h1de35cc_4
yaml 0.1.7 hc338f04_2
yapf 0.28.0 py_0
zeromq 4.3.1 h0a44026_3
zic 1.0.0 py_0
zipp 2.2 py_0
zlib 1.2.11 h1de35cc_3
zstd 1.3.7 h5bba6e5_0

@PNSmith actually this is less a newbie question than you might think. When a kernel dies without any warning, this often means that your hardware is not supported or misconfigured. This happened for me when I was working in a virtual machine what I have discussed with the developers on github. In this forum I discussed a similar issue when somebody was working with an Apple user who’s hardware allegedly was not supported anymore.

Therefore, please tell more about your hardware. What type of CPU do you use? Are you on a virtual machine? Anything else noteworthy?

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Hello, I am having a similar problem with trying to import numpy. I use a MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010). currently running the mac OS High Sierra (version 10.13.6)

I have been trying to “downgrade” the numpy version on the anaconda UI to version 1.17.4, But It doesn’t seem to work. It just keeps loading for hours.

Is there any other way of solving this issue ?

Thanks

Hi, I actually solve the problem by uninstalling numpy and then using the terminal in pycharm to reload it!
I’m using the same device and OS
Hope this helps

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FYI Oftentimes the dead kernel issue is tied to running out of memory, where the OS kills the kernel process. Monitor your memory usage while running and see if you’re exhausting the machine memory. Additionally think carefully about how much data you’re trying to load into a dataframe. Sometimes it’s bigger than you expected or not the contents you intended to try loading.

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