[FIXED] Unable to start Jupyter notebook on VS Code

Issue

(Using latest miniconda + VS Code on 64-bit Windows10:) After clean reinstalling VS Code, I can no longer launch jupyter notebook from within it. When I tried to create a new jupyter file for the first time, the Python extension installed ipykernel in my virtual environment "da38" (my main working environment). Then it stays on Connecting to IPython kernel: Connecting to kernel for an unusually long time, and stops with the error message Unable to start session for kernel Python 3.8.5 64-bit ('da38':conda) (images pasted below). I also removed and re-created da38 environment just in case. Used jupyter many times before with no issues until this new VS Code install today, and an identical setup is working on my other computer. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Solution

This issue also occurs on my computer. The solution is to restore the version number of a dependency package "traitlets" of ipython kernel to 4.3.3.

You could try to use "conda list" to view the version of the module traitlets in the current conda environment. If it shows version 5.0, it is recommended that you use version 4.3.3.

Reference: Unable to start session for kernel Python.

Answered By - Jill Cheng