[CLI]: Wandb agent fails with no log about wandb

[anmolmann]

Hey @arkadiusz-czerwinski , thanks for writing to W&B support. We'll investigate this on our end and get back to you soon.

[arkadiusz-czerwinski]

Thank you for being so cooperative.

[anmolmann]

Hey @arkadiusz-czerwinski ,

1. Job run will be reported as a failure if they don’t include a wandb.init to create a run, which I think might have happened in your case. This was another gap in our documentation--apologies.
2. If you look to the far right of the job run’s view under the queue, do you see an error icon (example in the video below, bottom right)? This should immediately pop an error modal. (We’ve heard from other customers who missed this, so we’re working on making it more prominent and discoverable).

launch_queue_error_modal.mov

Please let me know if this video helps locating the stack trace on your end.

[anmolmann]

Hi @arkadiusz-czerwinski , I wanted to follow up on this request. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance or if your issue has been resolved.

[arkadiusz-czerwinski]

Hi. Thank you for giving me a reminder. In case of our setup, the script starts with wandb init. The error, however, states that the script failed before reaching the wandb init, although highest verbose settings were selected. @anmolmann

[anmolmann]

Hi @arkadiusz-czerwinski , could you share your queue config and the script as well? This will help us in reproducing this issue on our end for further investigation.

In addition to the above, launch jobs in the run queue do not always show the underlying error message especially when the job fails before init - we made progress here in the last few months as seen in the video shared above, however, I wouldn't be able to guarantee that we will extract the exact right failure message each time. We'll keep working on improvements and investigate the case you brought up, though I don't anticipate us achieving perfection in that regard.

[arkadiusz-czerwinski]

Fair point. The code will be visible in this repo.

gpus: all
label:
  - tutorial
volume:
  - /mnt/space:/mnt/space

The error looks as follows:

The main issue is that the error is not very descriptive, and the agent provides no error even after specifying verbose level.

[arkadiusz-czerwinski]

Update: the issue seems to be that during creation of a job from git, entry point is required, but is then not passed forward to the wandb, which caused the error, as it had to be defined in Dockerfile.wandb.

[anmolmann]

I see, thanks for the context @arkadiusz-czerwinski . I will create a feature request to improve the error catching functionality for launch.