Anaconda2: cannot import name md5 - anaconda

Question

I just did a clean install of anaconda2 and conda always throws this error:
ERROR:root:code for hash md5 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in <module>
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type md5
ERROR:root:code for hash sha1 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in <module>
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha1
ERROR:root:code for hash sha224 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in <module>
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha224
ERROR:root:code for hash sha256 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in <module>
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha256
ERROR:root:code for hash sha384 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in <module>
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha384
ERROR:root:code for hash sha512 was not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 147, in <module>
globals()[__func_name] = __get_hash(__func_name)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/hashlib.py", line 97, in __get_builtin_constructor
raise ValueError('unsupported hash type ' + name)
ValueError: unsupported hash type sha512
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niid/.bin/conda", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main.py", line 182, in main
return conda_exception_handler(_main, *args)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 644, in conda_exception_handler
return handle_exception(e)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 634, in handle_exception print_unexpected_error_message(e)
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/exceptions.py", line 596, in print_unexpected_error_message
stderrlogger.info(get_main_info_str(get_info_dict()))
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/cli/main_info.py", line 162, in get_info_dict
from ..connection import user_agent
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/conda/connection.py", line 12, in <module>
from requests import Session, __version__ as REQUESTS_VERSION
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
import urllib3
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
from .connectionpool import (
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 29, in <module>
from .connection import (
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 39, in <module>
from .util.ssl_ import (
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
from .ssl_ import (
File "/home/niid/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py", line 7, in <module>
from hashlib import md5, sha1, sha256
ImportError: cannot import name md5
The first instance of this error happens when conda is called during installation.
It can be reproduced by manually calling conda or by calling
$HOME/anaconda2/python -c "import md5"
I was unable to find any fixes related to this problem so far. It is very strange since I just did
rm -rf $HOME/anaconda2
and then did a clean reinstall.
EDIT:
The problem seems to be only with Anaconda 5. I reinstalled Anaconda 4.4.0 and the problem does not occur. I will try the anaconda forums.

Answer 1

I was having the exact same problem, I believe Anaconda got it fixed in their latest release 25 Oct 2017 (Anaconda 5.0.1).
Now it worked for me.
https://www.anaconda.com/download/#linux