Hey, I have just installed prefect using pip and pyenv but the Server Type is <Client Error>, can anyone help?

You should first

prefect config set PREFECT_API_URL=<url-of-server>

, otherwise prefect won't be able to get a client here

Which server should I be pointing it to? I am just running it locally. I ran the same commands on a different Mac and it just worked without issue. I was playing around with Dask on this problem Mac, could that be the issue?

by 'it', you mean prefect server, right? Then you should set it to the url you started the server on, which is http://localhost:4200/api by default

The one where i have set in manually as you suggested now just says hosted but I wanted it to look the other one, any thoughts?

Alright, seems like I didn't really understand the code previously. It actually connects to a server if the PREFECT_API_URL is set, and creates a FastAPI instance otherwise. In your case however, it apparently can't manage to start up a fastapi instance. You should definitely do

prefect config unset PREFECT_API_URL

, and you can shut down the local server. But now, I'm not sure. Something in this try-catch block is throwing an exception, so maybe try to call get_client from a python script, so you can see the exception thrown? Do you have all dependencies installed?

I am just running

pip install prefect

and getting no errors there. When I try to run

prefect orion start

I get this error and a similar error when I try

prefect orion database reset

Can you try deleting .prefect/orion.db?

Aye!! That's fixed it!!! Thanks for all your help. Hopefully this thread is useful to anyone else with this problem as well now