Multiple sequential actions cause asyncio TimeoutError

Rasa version: 1.2.4 Rasa SDK version: 1.2.0 Python version: Python 3.6.9 (Anaconda 4.5.13) Operating system : Win10, 64bit

Issue: Multiple sequential actions (I would say 4 and more) in row in one story lead to Task exception was never retrieved error (see traceback).

Story:

## FULL 1b
* want_search
    - action_search_start_print_utter
    - action_search_start_print_utter
    - action_search_start_print_utter
    - action_search_start_print_utter    
    - action_search_start_print_utter

Action:

class ActionSearchStartPrintUtter(Action):
    def name(self):
        return "action_search_start_print_utter"

    def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain):
        dispatcher.utter_template("utter_lets_do_it", tracker)
        return []

Command or request that led to error:

[Rasa]
rasa shell --credentials credentials.yml --endpoints endpoints.yml --port 4444  --log-file logs/out.log --debug  --verbose

[SDK]
python -m rasa_sdk --actions action_sdk.actions --verbose --debug

Error (including full traceback):

2019-09-03 21:17:53 INFO     root  - Connecting to channel 'cmdline' which was specified by the '--connector' argument. Any other channels will be ignored. To connect to all given channels, omit the '--connector' argument.  
2019-09-03 21:17:53 INFO     root  - Starting Rasa server on http://localhost:4444
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2019-09-03 21:18:14 WARNING  root  - Could not parse timestamp c1f48ac98a26479687b85d9aa9e1c2ec. Instead current UTC time will be passed to duckling. Error: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'c1f48ac98a26479687b85d9aa9e1c2ec'
Lets do this
Lets do this
Lets do this
2019-09-03 21:18:22 ERROR    asyncio  - Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished coro=<configure_app.<locals>.run_cmdline_io() done, defined at c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\rasa\core\run.py:122> exception=TimeoutError()>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\rasa\core\run.py", line 126, in run_cmdline_io
    server_url=constants.DEFAULT_SERVER_FORMAT.format(port)
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\rasa\core\channels\console.py", line 138, in record_messages
    async for response in bot_responses:
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\async_generator\_impl.py", line 366, in step
    return await ANextIter(self._it, start_fn, *args)
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\async_generator\_impl.py", line 205, in throw
    return self._invoke(self._it.throw, type, value, traceback)
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\async_generator\_impl.py", line 209, in _invoke
    result = fn(*args)
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\rasa\core\channels\console.py", line 103, in send_message_receive_stream
    async for line in resp.content:
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\aiohttp\streams.py", line 40, in __anext__  
    rv = await self.read_func()
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\aiohttp\streams.py", line 329, in readline  
    await self._wait('readline')
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\aiohttp\streams.py", line 297, in _wait     
    await waiter
  File "c:\users\tomas\anaconda3\envs\eqs_chatbot\lib\site-packages\aiohttp\helpers.py", line 585, in __exit__  
    raise asyncio.TimeoutError from None
concurrent.futures._base.TimeoutError

Rasa SDK output (if needed):

2019-09-03 21:16:20 INFO     rasa_sdk.endpoint  - Action endpoint is up and running. on ('0.0.0.0', 5055)       
2019-09-03 21:18:16 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Received request to run 
2019-09-03 21:18:16 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Finished running 'action_search_start_print_utter'
127.0.0.1 - - [2019-09-03 21:18:16] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 200 0.032939
2019-09-03 21:18:18 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Received request to run 
2019-09-03 21:18:18 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Finished running 'action_search_start_print_utter'
127.0.0.1 - - [2019-09-03 21:18:18] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 200 0.019048
2019-09-03 21:18:20 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Received request to run 
2019-09-03 21:18:20 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Finished running 'action_search_start_print_utter'
127.0.0.1 - - [2019-09-03 21:18:20] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 200 0.018976
2019-09-03 21:18:22 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Received request to run 
2019-09-03 21:18:22 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Finished running 'action_search_start_print_utter'
127.0.0.1 - - [2019-09-03 21:18:22] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 200 0.014997
2019-09-03 21:18:24 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Received request to run 
2019-09-03 21:18:24 DEBUG    rasa_sdk.executor  - Finished running 'action_search_start_print_utter'
127.0.0.1 - - [2019-09-03 21:18:24] "POST /webhook HTTP/1.1" 200 200 0.008981

[ShaunHolt]

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:52 AM -0400, “Tobias Wochinger” [e-mail] wrote:

@ShaunHolt This is related to #4606 . There will be fix in the next release #5686

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[tocosastalo]

I would say that generally run mode takes the same action less time than in shell mode in my environment. So users of other channels are not very affected.

Returning to the beginning of the issue, the action was as simple as it could have been - it utters one text-only template:

class ActionSearchStartPrintUtter(Action):
    def name(self):
        return "action_search_start_print_utter"

    def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain):
        dispatcher.utter_template("utter_lets_do_it", tracker)
        return []

Story was also very simple:

* want_search
    - action_search_start_print_utter
    - action_search_start_print_utter
    - action_search_start_print_utter
    - action_search_start_print_utter    
    - action_search_start_print_utter

And it hit the timeout limit in shell mode. In run mode it is done in 1 second. I thought it was a bug, but it would be a problem on my side. I think we can close this.