Kernel died before replying to kernel_info

[NuclearPowerNerd]

Hello!

I recently discovered Quarto and would really like to give it a try. I am running Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 (WSL1). I have no problem running standalone Jupyter notebooks in VScode.

I took an MWE from the quarto website and when I try to render it I get the following error.

- Kernel connection successful
- Sending execute command to kernel
- Execute command sent, reading response
2022-08-31 22:11:22,459 - root - Level 25 - executing notebook
- Error response received
ERROR:

Kernel died before replying to kernel_info

I found this discussion that seems to be related. But I'm unsure of their solution.

If I understand it (may not) - something is hanging up here because the ipykernel is installed somewhere that needs root permissions? I'm not sure it is though. I have a virtual environment set up and when I check the path it is in my \home directory (see below).

conda env list
# conda environments:
#
MyEnvir          *  /home/USERNAME/anaconda3/envs/MyEnvir          

Should I uninstall ipykernel using conda and then reinstall using pip by doing

pip install ipykernel install --user?

(not sure if that is the same thing as python -m ipykernel install --user)

Or will that screw up my existing notebooks and kernels?