if I look at the code of the clearml controller.py, I see that it expects additional code at a relative folder
I created the pipeline on another machine via interactive python shell. The pipeline is picked up by clearml, as I see it on the web ui.
Initially, I had only one queue and one worker set-up. If the pipeline 'default execution queue' is the same as the queue used in pipe.start('the queue'), it gets into sort of a dead-lock and waits forever
my worker node is not a docker, but linux in conda environment
if I go to the folder as mentioned in the error and than one level up, I see no other packages present
but the behavior is different if you kick it off from a jupyter notebook (local) or a python script
Full console log of the worker:
No tasks in Queues, sleeping for 5.0 seconds
No tasks in queue b5fe1e72614247f7a77e5f6cdac35580
No tasks in Queues, sleeping for 5.0 seconds
task 30ad27a7a1244b6e8aa722d81cb6015c pulled from b5fe1e72614247f7a77e5f6cdac35580 by worker NLEIN-315GNH2:0
Running task '30ad27a7a1244b6e8aa722d81cb6015c'
Storing stdout and stderr log to '/tmp/.clearml_agent_out.sppvun4p.txt', '/tmp/.clearml_agent_out.sppvun4p.txt'
Current configuration (clearml_agent v1.4.1, location: /tmp/.clearml_agent.gss2zozj.cfg):
sdk.storage.cache.default_base_dir = ~/.clearml/cache
sdk.storage.cache.size.min_free_bytes = 10GB
sdk.storage.direct_access.0.url = file://*
sdk.metrics.file_history_size = 100
sdk.metrics.matplotlib_untitled_history_size = 100
sdk.metrics.images.format = JPEG
sdk.metrics.images.quality = 87
sdk.metrics.images.subsampling = 0
sdk.metrics.tensorboard_single_series_per_graph = false
sdk.network.metrics.file_upload_threads = 4
sdk.network.metrics.file_upload_starvation_warning_sec = 120
sdk.network.iteration.max_retries_on_server_error = 5
sdk.network.iteration.retry_backoff_factor_sec = 10
sdk.aws.s3.key =
sdk.aws.s3.region =
sdk.aws.boto3.pool_connections = 512
sdk.aws.boto3.max_multipart_concurrency = 16
sdk.log.null_log_propagate = false
sdk.log.task_log_buffer_capacity = 66
sdk.log.disable_urllib3_info = true
sdk.development.task_reuse_time_window_in_hours = 72.0
sdk.development.vcs_repo_detect_async = true
sdk.development.store_uncommitted_code_diff = true
sdk.development.support_stopping = true
sdk.development.default_output_uri =
sdk.development.force_analyze_entire_repo = false
sdk.development.suppress_update_message = false
sdk.development.detect_with_pip_freeze = false
sdk.development.worker.report_period_sec = 2
sdk.development.worker.ping_period_sec = 30
sdk.development.worker.log_stdout = true
sdk.development.worker.report_global_mem_used = false
agent.worker_id = NLEIN-315GNH2:0
agent.worker_name = NLEIN-315GNH2
agent.force_git_ssh_protocol = false
agent.python_binary =
agent.package_manager.type = pip
agent.package_manager.pip_version = <20.2
agent.package_manager.system_site_packages = false
agent.package_manager.force_upgrade = false
agent.package_manager.conda_channels.0 = pytorch
agent.package_manager.conda_channels.1 = conda-forge
agent.package_manager.conda_channels.2 = defaults
agent.package_manager.priority_optional_packages.0 = pygobject
agent.package_manager.torch_nightly = false
agent.venvs_dir = /home/thermo/.clearml/venvs-builds
agent.venvs_cache.max_entries = 10
agent.venvs_cache.free_space_threshold_gb = 2.0
agent.vcs_cache.enabled = true
agent.vcs_cache.path = /home/thermo/.clearml/vcs-cache
agent.venv_update.enabled = false
agent.pip_download_cache.enabled = true
agent.pip_download_cache.path = /home/thermo/.clearml/pip-download-cache
agent.translate_ssh = true
agent.reload_config = false
agent.docker_pip_cache = /home/thermo/.clearml/pip-cache
agent.docker_apt_cache = /home/thermo/.clearml/apt-cache
agent.docker_force_pull = false
agent.default_docker.image = nvidia/cuda:10.2-cudnn7-runtime-ubuntu18.04
agent.enable_task_env = false
agent.hide_docker_command_env_vars.enabled = true
agent.hide_docker_command_env_vars.parse_embedded_urls = true
agent.abort_callback_max_timeout = 1800
agent.docker_internal_mounts.sdk_cache = /clearml_agent_cache
agent.docker_internal_mounts.apt_cache = /var/cache/apt/archives
agent.docker_internal_mounts.ssh_folder = ~/.ssh
agent.docker_internal_mounts.ssh_ro_folder = /.ssh
agent.docker_internal_mounts.pip_cache = /root/.cache/pip
agent.docker_internal_mounts.poetry_cache = /root/.cache/pypoetry
agent.docker_internal_mounts.vcs_cache = /root/.clearml/vcs-cache
agent.docker_internal_mounts.venv_build = ~/.clearml/venvs-builds
agent.docker_internal_mounts.pip_download = /root/.clearml/pip-download-cache
agent.apply_environment = true
agent.apply_files = true
agent.custom_build_script =
agent.git_user = MichaelThermo
agent.default_python = 3.8
agent.cuda_version = 0
agent.cudnn_version = 0
api.version = 1.5
api.verify_certificate = true
api.default_version = 1.5
api.http.max_req_size = 15728640
api.http.retries.total = 240
api.http.retries.connect = 240
api.http.retries.read = 240
api.http.retries.redirect = 240
api.http.retries.status = 240
api.http.retries.backoff_factor = 1.0
api.http.retries.backoff_max = 120.0
api.http.wait_on_maintenance_forever = true
api.http.pool_maxsize = 512
api.http.pool_connections = 512
api.api_server = https://api.clear.ml
api.web_server = https://app.clear.ml
api.files_server = https://files.clear.ml
api.credentials.access_key = HCH1PO3TF2EZY0226XUS
api.host = https://api.clear.ml
Executing task id [30ad27a7a1244b6e8aa722d81cb6015c]:
repository =
branch =
version_num =
tag =
docker_cmd =
entry_point = controller.py
working_dir = .
::: Python virtual environment cache is disabled. To accelerate spin-up time set agent.venvs_cache.path=~/.clearml/venvs-cache :::
created virtual environment CPython3.8.0.final.0-64 in 239ms
creator CPython3Posix(dest=/home/thermo/.clearml/venvs-builds/3.8, clear=False, no_vcs_ignore=False, global=False)
seeder FromAppData(download=False, pip=bundle, setuptools=bundle, wheel=bundle, via=copy, app_data_dir=/home/thermo/.local/share/virtualenv)
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Adding venv into cache: /home/thermo/.clearml/venvs-builds/3.8
Running task id [30ad27a7a1244b6e8aa722d81cb6015c]:
[.]$ /home/thermo/.clearml/venvs-builds/3.8/bin/python -u /home/thermo/.clearml/venvs-builds/3.8/code/controller.py
Summary - installed python packages:
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Environment setup completed successfully
Starting Task Execution:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/thermo/.clearml/venvs-builds/3.8/code/controller.py", line 20, in <module>
from .job import LocalClearmlJob, RunningJob, BaseJob
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package
Leaving process id 1273
DONE: Running task '30ad27a7a1244b6e8aa722d81cb6015c', exit status 1
Process failed, exit code 1No tasks in queue b5fe1e72614247f7a77e5f6cdac35580
No tasks in Queues, sleeping for 5.0 seconds
No tasks in queue b5fe1e72614247f7a77e5f6cdac35580
The notebook behavior is indeed how I expect it to work, the behavior via the script is strange
(the 'remo2' task is an existing experiment)
So when you run it standalone it works fine? How are you creating the pipeline?
FYI: this is my pipeline script
from clearml import PipelineController
pipe = PipelineController(name="My Pipe", project="Gridsquare-Training", version="0.0.5")
pipe.add_step(name="pipe step 1", base_task_project="Gridsquare-Training", base_task_name="remo2")
pipe.add_step(name="pipe step 2", base_task_project="Gridsquare-Training", base_task_name="remo2", parents=["pipe step 1"])
pipe.set_default_execution_queue("myqueue")
pipe.start("service")
Can you add a larger piece of the error/log? Do you have a code snippet that also reproduces this?
when I set-up two queues and two workers, set the default-execution-queue to one queue and use the other queue for pipe.start, it all works
I do not get more information than I just showed
but if I run exactly the same code from a python script (which also calls start on te pipeline), the worker node tries to check out the script and runs that (or fails if you didn't check it into git yet)
Can you add the full log & the dependencies detected in original code? How are you building the pipeline?
in case of the local jupyter notebook, I create the pipeline and when I start it, it all works without the necessity to add the jupyter notebook to git
Hi John, I've done more experiments and found that this only happens if you try to run the pipeline remotely directly from the python interpreter
the error occurs in the worker node when it tries to initialize the environment for the pipeline
