diff --git a/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/.prepare.sh.swp b/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/.prepare.sh.swp
index 9d9486d8b..dabbec0d0 100644
Binary files a/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/.prepare.sh.swp and b/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/.prepare.sh.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/prepare.sh b/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/prepare.sh
index b35363b70..f559663bf 100755
--- a/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/prepare.sh
+++ b/egs/LJSpeech/ASR/prepare.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # fix segmentation fault reported in https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/issues/674
 export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
-. ../../../tools/activate_python.sh
+#. ../../../tools/activate_python.sh
 
 set -eou pipefail