`conda activate ` messes up prompt

Question

Recently my prompt gets messed up when activating a conda environment.

It basically removes everything except the environment name. After deactivating the environment again there is no prompt left, i.e. $PS1 is empty.

I expect something like

[<standard prompt>] $

[<standard prompt>] $ conda activate <env>

(<env>) [<standard prompt>] $ conda deactivate

[<standard prompt>] $

However recently this changed to the following

[<standard prompt>] $

[<standard prompt>] $ conda activate <env>

(<env>) conda deactivate

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '22 at 09:49

Turns out that this is due to the recent conda version 22.9.0 (see also https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/11885).

As mentioned in the bug report, this is solved by running

conda init bash

This will modify (next to other files) the following

<conda base>/condabin/conda
<conda base>/bin/conda
<conda base>/bin/conda-env

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