Spyder: Just updated Mac to High Sierra and updated Anaconda. Spyder crashes after opening

Issue Report Checklist

• [ x] Searched the issues page for similar reports
• [ x] Read the relevant sections of the Spyder Troubleshooting Guide and followed its advice
• [ x] Reproduced the issue after updating with conda update spyder (or pip, if not using Anaconda)
• [ ] Could not reproduce inside jupyter qtconsole (if console-related)
• [x ] Tried basic troubleshooting (if a bug/error)
  
  
  
  • [ x] Restarted Spyder
  
  
  • [x ] Reset preferences with spyder --reset
  
  
  • [ x] Reinstalled the latest version of Anaconda
  
  
  • [ x] Tried the other applicable steps from the Troubleshooting Guide
  
  
• [ x] Completed the Problem Description, Steps to Reproduce and Version sections below

Problem Description

Today I updated my Mac to High Sierra, Anaconda to 1.8.4, and Spyder to version 3.2.8. Spyder continually crashes ~30 sec after opening.

What steps reproduce the problem?

After upgrading to High Sierra I tried updating Spyder using pip. I'm new to coding and didn't see until after I ran this that this can cause issues. Spyder continues to crash after opening. I've tried restarting my computer, deleting anaconda and the anaconda preferences file, reinstalling Anaconda, and restarting Spyder preferences. I've also ran "export EVENT_NOKQUEUE=1" in the terminal because it was a solution on a similar issue ticket, but this did not work for me.

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

Instead of not crashing I see "Spyder has encountered an internal problem" and the window crashes.

Paste Traceback/Error Below (if applicable)

 File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py", line 956, in update_working_directory
    shellwidget.get_cwd()
  File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/widgets/ipythonconsole/shell.py", line 128, in get_cwd
    self.silent_exec_method(code)
  File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/spyder/widgets/ipythonconsole/shell.py", line 341, in silent_exec_method
    local_uuid = to_text_string(uuid.uuid1())
  File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/uuid.py", line 606, in uuid1
    clock_seq_hi_variant, clock_seq_low, node), version=1)
  File "/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/uuid.py", line 168, in __init__
    raise ValueError('field 6 out of range (need a 48-bit value)')
ValueError: field 6 out of range (need a 48-bit value)

Versions

• Spyder version: 3.2.8
• Python version: 3.6
• qtconsole version: 4.3.1
• Qt version:
• PyQt version:
• Operating System name/version: MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Dependencies

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