Sorry, forgot to mention. I used the command with --foreground tag. It is the same. Terminal just sits at a new line, no logs, no worker in UI

@<1523701087100473344:profile|SuccessfulKoala55>
So, I did it with debug and got this stacktrace error:
type_checker=validator.TYPE_CHECKER.redefine_many({
AttributeError: type object 'Draft4Validator' has no attribute 'TYPE_CHECKER'

Also services agent is not related to regular agent executions

CostlyOstrich36 Seems like on my server agent-services container is missing. It's not running. Could it be the issue?

CostlyOstrich36 Am I right I should also provide this URLS in agent-services section in docker-compose file?
CLEARML_HOST_IP: ${CLEARML_HOST_IP:-}
CLEARML_WEB_HOST: ${CLEARML_WEB_HOST:-}
CLEARML_API_HOST: http://apiserver:8008

BoredBat47 what did you provide in the docker-compose to the services agent?
Also, you said that clearml-init worked but clearml-agent init did not - did you run both from the same place?

I think so, yes

I looked through agent-services logs and found new error I haven't seen before:
clearml_agent: ERROR: Connection Error: it seems *api_server* is misconfigured. Is this the ClearML API server http://<my_ip>:8008 ?

It works like I mentioned before: the terminal jumps on a new line and sits there, no output after that, nothing is happening in the console. But if you go to UI you see that "Last used" is updating

Can you please attached the console output again?

BoredBat47 , can you add the logs?

@<1523701070390366208:profile|CostlyOstrich36>
Should I leave as is or fill the values in docker-compose for agent-services? I set it to localhost since agent-services is running together with other clearml containers on one machine. Not sure why do you have to fill those values.
CLEARML_HOST_IP: "<my_clearml_server_ip>"
CLEARML_WEB_HOST: " None "
CLEARML_API_HOST: " None "
CLEARML_FILES_HOST: " None "

@<1523701070390366208:profile|CostlyOstrich36>
What agent-services is doing on start up? Seems like something is preventing it from properly working. I already added a command to entrypoint to configure pip.conf since we have to use a trusted mirror to download python packages. Also I managed to connect local agent to ClearML server by using 127.0.0.1 host in credentials. Still no luck with remote agent

@<1523701087100473344:profile|SuccessfulKoala55>
When I run clearml-agent init I don't have a file prior to this. I tried running agent daemon with clearml.conf created by clearml-init but that doesn't work since it has no agent section, right? I know I can add it myself but I think clearml-agent init should function too

CostlyOstrich36 Yep, it seems it was the case. I did not provide credentials for API in docker compose. I did that but now agent-services just keeps restarting. I looked into containers logs and it seems to be a proxy error. Why this container is trying to connect somewhere?

clearml 1.9.0
clearml-agent 1.5.1
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"

but without -d

The strange thing also is that I see that the credentials are being used in web UI: last used timestamp is updated constantly to present time. So apparently daemon is trying to do something but can't launch properly all the way

Actually the agent will use the default values for the agent section if you have a clearml.init file - what do you get if you run the agent like that?

Console output of clearml-agent init with no clearml.conf:
...
ClearML Hosts configuration:
Web App: None
API: None
File Store: None

Verifying credentials ...
Error: could not verify credentials: key=ak secret=sk
...
Console output of clearml-agent daemon --foreground with clearml.conf created by clearml-init is missing. No output.
...

But from what you're saying it seems like the agent simply cannot communicate with the server and what you see is simply the agent waiting indefinitely

Console output of clearml-agent daemon --foreground ?

The terminal hangs on the command

Sorry for bothering but I am really lost, I think I exhausted all my options. I really have no clue what is going on.

Is clearml-init also has to connect to the ClearML server to successfully finish?

Yes, it verifies the credentials in the same way, and creates a clearml.conf file when done

do you have this file in your home folder?

@<1523701087100473344:profile|SuccessfulKoala55> I provided following env vars:
CLEARML_HOST_IP: "<my_ip>"
CLEARML_WEB_HOST: " http://<my_ip>:8080 "
CLEARML_API_HOST: " http://<my_ip>:8008 "
CLEARML_FILES_HOST: " http://<my_ip>:8081 "
CLEARML_API_ACCESS_KEY: <my_access_key>
CLEARML_API_SECRET_KEY: <my_secret_key>
also I changed IP in entrypoint from apiserver:8008 to <my_ip>:8008

Yes, I run both commands from the same place — dedicated user on my worker machine. Is clearml-init also has to connect to the ClearML server to successfully finish?

Also, previous problem was in incorrect proxy configuration on agent machine

Can you try running clearml-agent --debug daemon --foreground ?

@<1523701087100473344:profile|SuccessfulKoala55>
I managed to create clearml.conf file with clearml-agent init after fixing proxy problem. And now trying to run daemon with this conf file. I suspect something is missing from it since request validator fails with missing attribute