Unable to start Spyder 5.5.1 on latest Anaconda version

[Mitternacht]

Issue Report Checklist

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

Problem Description

Unable to start spyder on latest Anaconda version. Tried on multiple machines, all attempts failed. The only solution is to change back to version 5.4.3 from 5.5.1

Error Message

The available OpenGL surface format was either not version 3.2 or higher or not a Core Profile.
Chromium on macOS will fall back to software rendering in this case.
Hardware acceleration and features such as WebGL will not be available.
fromIccProfile: failed minimal tag size sanity
/opt/anaconda3/bin/pythonw: line 3: 2719 Segmentation fault: 11 /opt/anaconda3/python.app/Contents/MacOS/python "$@"

Note: There were similar past reports which recommended to reinstall python.app. In this case, it does not fix the issue

Versions

• Spyder version: 5.5.1
• Python version: 3.12.4
• Qt version: 5.15.2
• PyQt version: 5.15.10
• Operating System name/version: MacOS Sonoma 14.5

[ccordoba12]

Hey @Mitternacht, thanks for reporting. I saw that you posted your problem also on issue #22144. So I'm going to close this one ion favor of that.