ERROR: Abnormal program exit

wandb --0.10.0 && python --3.6.12

• Weights and Biases version: 0.10.0
• Python version: 3.6
• Operating System: Linux Ubuntu 18.06

Description

Cannot run wandb.init()

What I Did

(kg) junhao@compute006:~$ python
Python 3.6.12 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Sep  8 2020, 23:10:56)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import wandb
>>> wandb.init()
wandb: (1) Create a W&B account
wandb: (2) Use an existing W&B account
wandb: (3) Don't visualize my results
wandb: Enter your choice: 2
wandb: You chose 'Use an existing W&B account'
wandb: You can find your API key in your browser here: https://app.wandb.ai/authorize
wandb: Paste an API key from your profile and hit enter:
wandb: Appending key for api.wandb.ai to your netrc file: /home/junhao/.netrc
Problem at: <stdin> 1 <module>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_init.py", line 479, in init
    run = wi.init()
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_init.py", line 358, in init
    _backend=backend, _disable_warning=True, _settings=self.settings
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_login.py", line 95, in _login
    res = _backend.interface.communicate_login(key, anonymous)
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/interface/interface.py", line 438, in communicate_login
    "Couldn't communicate with backend after %s seconds" % timeout
wandb.errors.error.Error: Couldn't communicate with backend after 5 seconds
wandb: ERROR Abnormal program exit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_init.py", line 479, in init
    run = wi.init()
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_init.py", line 358, in init
    _backend=backend, _disable_warning=True, _settings=self.settings
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_login.py", line 95, in _login
    res = _backend.interface.communicate_login(key, anonymous)
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/interface/interface.py", line 438, in communicate_login
    "Couldn't communicate with backend after %s seconds" % timeout
wandb.errors.error.Error: Couldn't communicate with backend after 5 seconds

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/junhao/anaconda3/envs/kg/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wandb/sdk/wandb_init.py", line 513, in init
    six.raise_from(Exception("problem"), error_seen)
  File "<string>", line 3, in raise_from
Exception: problem
>>> B

[michelkok]

To me downgrading wandb to 0.9.7 mitigated the problem. It seems to be a problem with the newest version only.

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