Still, My problem is calling

pipe.start()

crashes.

is supposed to kill the process
2022-08-19 09:17:56,626 - clearml - WARNING - Terminating local execution processThis is what it writes before killing the local process.
/opt/homebrew/anaconda3/envs/py39/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/resource_tracker.py:216: UserWarning: resource_tracker: There appear to be 16 leaked semaphore objects to clean up at shutdown warnings.warn('resource_tracker: There appear to be %d 'This is a python cleanup warning (you can safely ignore it)

You should replace pipe.start() with pipe.start_locally(run_pipeline_steps_locally=False) it should do what you need (i.e. run the pipeline logic locally but the components remotely)
wdyt?