Hi Prefect Community,
I am currently receiving an ...
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Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 10:59 AMHi Prefect Community,
I am currently receiving an error when using a local (on my pc) prefect agent which pulls from a work queue in the the prefect cloud.
The error only occurs when I try to use the RayTaskRunner:
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(begin_task_run pid=141324) ImportError: cannot import name 'SubprocessFlowRunner' from partially initialized module 'prefect.flow_runners' (most likely due to a circular import) (/home/christian/Documents/ray_and_prefect/env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/prefect/flow_runners/__init__.py)✅ 1
Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 11:00 AMThis is my flow and deployment:
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from prefect import task, flow
from prefect_ray import RayTaskRunner
from prefect.deployments import DeploymentSpec
@task
def say_hello(name):
print(f"hello {name}")
@flow(name="temp-flow-example", task_runner=RayTaskRunner(address="auto"))
def greetings():
say_hello("Ford")
DeploymentSpec(
name="temp-flow-example",
flow=greetings
)Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 11:09 AMWhat confuses me a bit, is the fact, that the flow only fails when pulled from the cloud and seems to work when i run it directly locally via python and a main method.
Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 11:18 AMCould it be related to the fact that I am running my agent in a virtual environment?
Probably in the background the following is executed:
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from prefect_ray import RayTaskRunnera
Anna Geller
07/07/2022, 11:57 AM
do you run your agent in the same virtual environment as you run your local process? perhaps you can explicitly define your flow runner with the virtual environment you use for your agent?
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flow_runner=SubprocessFlowRunner(condaenv="yourcondavenv"),Anna Geller
07/07/2022, 12:07 PM
I was trying to replicate and sth also didn't work for me, even though I got a different error message using the same versions as you did
Anna Geller
07/07/2022, 12:09 PM
my error was:
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Failed to read dashboard log: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/ray/session_2022-07-07_14-08-35_008202_6668/logs/dashboard.log'Anna Geller
07/07/2022, 12:19 PM
wow it took me forever to set this up but this helped https://docs.ray.io/en/master/ray-overview/installation.html#m1-mac-apple-silicon-support
looks like you need to be super careful about your environment with Ray and grpcio package - do you use Conda? on which machine do you run it?
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Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 12:24 PMTried specifying the SubprocessFlowRunner with the virtual env path in my case. but did not help
Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 12:25 PMI am running a venv on a linux ubuntu machine
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Anna Geller
07/07/2022, 12:25 PM
yup you're right, I was able to reproduce your error, thanks for reporting that
@Marvin open "Flow run with Ray and agent throws: `ImportError: cannot import name 'SubprocessFlowRunner' from partially initialized module 'prefect.flow_runners'`"
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Marvin
07/07/2022, 12:26 PMc
Christian Vogel
07/07/2022, 12:48 PMthanks for the quick support as always
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