Import error - help wanted

[KronosTheLate]

I am trying to run my first quorto program, but get an error I am unable to understand.
The run command:

quarto preview helloworld.qmd --no-browser --no-watch-inputs

Contents of "helloworld.qmd":

---
title: "Plots Demo"
author: "Norah Jones"
date: "5/22/2021"
format:
  html:
    code-fold: true
jupyter: julia-(auto-threads)-1.8
---

## Parametric Plots

Plot function pair $(x(u), y(u))$. 
See @fig-parametric for an example.

The kernel-name should be good enough, as the URL in the jupyter notebook is http://localhost:8888/notebooks/Untitled.ipynb?kernel_name=julia-(auto-threads)-1.8.

The error:

Starting julia-(auto-threads)-1.8 kernel...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\share\jupyter\jupyter.py", line 21, in <module>
    from notebook import notebook_execute, RestartKernel
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\share\jupyter\notebook.py", line 17, in <module>
    from nbclient import NotebookClient
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\nbclient\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .client import NotebookClient, execute  # noqa: F401
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\nbclient\client.py", line 14, in <module>
    from jupyter_client import KernelManager
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .asynchronous import AsyncKernelClient  # noqa
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\asynchronous\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .client import AsyncKernelClient  # noqa
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\asynchronous\client.py", line 6, in <module>
    from jupyter_client.channels import HBChannel
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\jupyter_client\channels.py", line 12, in <module>
    import zmq.asyncio
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\__init__.py", line 103, in <module>
    from zmq import backend
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
    raise original_error from None       
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\__init__.py", line 27, in <module>
    _ns = select_backend(first)
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\select.py", line 32, in select_backend
    mod = import_module(name)
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\cython\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import (
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing error: The specified module could not be found.

[cscheid]

This doesn't seem like a quarto error, it looks like a bad installation of Cython:

  File "C:\Users\Dennis Bal\.julia\conda\3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\cython\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import (
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing error: The specified module could not be found.

[msarahan]

Are you running Quarto from an activated conda prompt? Something like a the Miniconda prompt or miniforge prompt would be one way, though it appears that julia is somehow using conda for you, rather than you using conda itself.

If you don't activate the conda environment, the DLL search paths go very bad, very quickly.

[KronosTheLate]

Thanks for the really fast answers, sorry about the late reply.

Yes, I let the package IJulia install minipython for me when prompted, and this is the only installation of conda or python. Is there any reason why that should not be good enough?

I will test a manual install of miniconda now ^_^

[KronosTheLate]

I did a seperate install of miniconda, but when I was unable to locate the jupyter executable to link the julia package IJulia to the pre-installed environment. I am now attempting to use Conda.jl, which is what automatically installed miniconda before, to make sure that my Cython installation is fine.

[KronosTheLate]

With a reinstallation of IJulia, it seems like the Cython issue was resolved. I was just able to generate my first quarto document! Thanks for your help, it pointed me in the right direction ^_^