Omniverse Kit Remote Client show python script visuals

I am pretty new to Omniverse toolkit. I am tryin to reproduce this reinforcement learning example with my own tweaks: https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/app_isaacsim/app_isaacsim/sample_training_rl.html
I am able the set up the remote client since my container is running AWS EC2 instance, and able to run all of the interactive examples successfully. I am also able to run headless python examples. I am wondering, however, is there a way to launch a python example such as the following:

./python.sh python_samples/jetbot_soccer/jetbot_train.py 

And show the visual through remote client? Because I want to observe my RL model at the beginning of the training to make sure it is behaving as expected. Any help is appreciated!

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Hi Yuxin,

Did you try these steps to connect the Remote Client to the AWS and not passed in the headless option when you train if you want to see?
https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/app_isaacsim/app_isaacsim/setup.html#kit-remote-client-requirements

parser.add_argument(“-H”, “–headless”, help=“run in headless mode (no GUI)”, action=“store_true”)

This talk shows the steps to set up AWS for streaming Isaac Sim 2020: Deep Dive - YouTube

If I run without --headless argument, the training script fails with the following script. Here is the step I followed:

  1. SSH into my instance which is running my container with remote client entry point.
  2. Bash into this container:
docker exec -it 7cd7a685240c bash
  1. Run my python training scrip by running:
./python.sh python_samples/jetbot/jetbot_train.py
  1. The script exits with the following error message:
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [402ms] [Error] [carb.windowing-glfw.plugin] GLFW initialization failed.
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [402ms] [Error] [carb] Failed to startup plugin carb.windowing-glfw.plugin (interfaces: [carb::windowing::IGLContext v0.1],[carb::windowing::IWindowing v1.1]) (impl: carb.windowing-glfw.plugin)
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [402ms] [Error] [carb.windowing-glfw.plugin] GLFW initialization failed.
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [402ms] [Error] [carb] Failed to startup plugin carb.windowing-glfw.plugin (interfaces: [carb::windowing::IGLContext v0.1],[carb::windowing::IWindowing v1.1]) (impl: carb.windowing-glfw.plugin)
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [403ms] [Error] [omni.appwindow.plugin] Failed to acquire IWindowing interface
[0.417s] [ext: omni.kit.renderer.core-0.0.0] startup

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Driver Version: 460.73      | Graphics API: Vulkan
|=============================================================================================|
| GPU | Name                             | Active | LDA | GPU Memory | Vendor-ID | LUID       |
|     |                                  |        |     |            | Device-ID | UUID       |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 0   | Tesla T4                         | Yes    |     | 15606   MB | 10de      | 0          |
|     |                                  |        |     |            | 1eb8      | b58943f9.. |
|=============================================================================================|
| OS: Linux ip-172-31-21-181, Version: 5.4.0-1048-aws
| Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8259CL CPU @ 2.50GHz | Cores: Unknown | Logical: 64
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Total Memory (MB): 255000 | Free Memory: 194038
| Total Page/Swap (MB): 0 | Free Page/Swap: 0
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [714ms] [Warning] [carb.cudainterop.plugin] NVML could not be loaded. GPU Utilization stats will be unavailable. Error: libnvidia-ml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [724ms] [Error] [carb.windowing-glfw.plugin] GLFW initialization failed.
2021-08-23 19:42:25 [724ms] [Error] [carb] Failed to startup plugin carb.windowing-glfw.plugin (interfaces: [carb::windowing::IGLContext v0.1],[carb::windowing::IWindowing v1.1]) (impl: carb.windowing-glfw.plugin)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,066ms] [Error] [carb.windowing-glfw.plugin] GLFW initialization failed.
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,066ms] [Error] [carb] Failed to startup plugin carb.windowing-glfw.plugin (interfaces: [carb::windowing::IGLContext v0.1],[carb::windowing::IWindowing v1.1]) (impl: carb.windowing-glfw.plugin)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,067ms] [Error] [carb.windowing-glfw.plugin] GLFW initialization failed.
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,067ms] [Error] [carb] Failed to startup plugin carb.windowing-glfw.plugin (interfaces: [carb::windowing::IGLContext v0.1],[carb::windowing::IWindowing v1.1]) (impl: carb.windowing-glfw.plugin)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,492ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libcarb.events.plugin.so!carbOnPluginStartup
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,493ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libcarb.tasking.plugin.so!std::thread::_State_impl<std::thread::_Invoker<std::tuple<void (carb::tasking::Scheduler::*)(unsigned int, int, carb::cpp20::latch*), carb::tasking::Scheduler*, unsigned int, int, carb::cpp20::latch*> > >::_M_run()
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,496ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpthread.so.0!funlockfile
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,497ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.appwindow.plugin.so!std::string __gnu_cxx::__to_xstring<std::string, char>(int (*)(char*, unsigned long, char const*, __va_list_tag*), unsigned long, char const*, ...)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,497ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.kit.renderer.plugin.so!void std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> >::_M_realloc_insert<unsigned long const&>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<unsigned long*, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > >, unsigned long const&)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,498ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.kit.renderer.plugin.so!carbOnPluginRegisterEx
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,498ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.kit.renderer.plugin.so!carbOnPluginRegisterEx
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,499ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.kit.renderer.plugin.so!carbOnPluginRegisterEx
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,499ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.kit.renderer.ext.plugin.so!carbOnPluginPostShutdown
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,500ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.ext.plugin.so!void std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string>>::_M_realloc_insert<std::string&>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<std::string*, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > >, std::string&)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,502ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.ext.plugin.so!carbOnPluginShutdown
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,503ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.ext.plugin.so!void std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> >::_M_realloc_insert<unsigned long>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<unsigned long*, std::vector<unsigned long, std::allocator<unsigned long> > >, unsigned long&&)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,505ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.ext.plugin.so!void std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string>>::_M_realloc_insert<std::string&>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<std::string*, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > >, std::string&)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,506ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.ext.plugin.so!void std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string>>::_M_realloc_insert<std::string&>(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<std::string*, std::vector<std::string, std::allocator<std::string> > >, std::string&)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,507ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.ext.plugin.so!std::_Hashtable<std::string, std::string, std::allocator<std::string>, std::__detail::_Identity, std::equal_to<std::string>, std::hash<std::string>, std::__detail::_Mod_range_hashing, std::__detail::_Default_ranged_hash, std::__detail::_Prime_rehash_policy, std::__detail::_Hashtable_traits<true, true, true> >::operator=(std::_Hashtable<std::string, std::string, std::allocator<std::string>, std::__detail::_Identity, std::equal_to<std::string>, std::hash<std::string>, std::__detail::_Mod_range_hashing, std::__detail::_Default_ranged_hash, std::__detail::_Prime_rehash_policy, std::__detail::_Hashtable_traits<true, true, true> > const&)
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,509ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libomni.kit.app.plugin.so!_init
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,511ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] _app.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so!PyInit__app
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,513ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] _app.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so!std::basic_stringbuf<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::~basic_stringbuf()
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,516ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyMethodDef_RawFastCallKeywords
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,520ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyCFunction_FastCallKeywords
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,523ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,526ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_init
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,529ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,532ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyEval_EvalCodeWithName
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,535ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyFunction_FastCallDict
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2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,550ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_PyEval_EvalFrameDefault
2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,553ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_init
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2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,577ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] libpython3.7m.so.1.0!_Py_UnixMain
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2021-08-23 19:42:26 [1,580ms] [Fatal] [carb.crashreporter-breakpad.plugin] python3!_start
./python.sh: line 27:  4758 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $python_exe $@
There was an error running python

I think the fatal message comes from:

[omni.appwindow.plugin] Failed to acquire IWindowing interface

Seems like it is able to connect to my remote client server and launch the window there?

Sorry, i mixed this up. Remote client still works with headless on.

Could you add these extra lines to your jetbot_train.py after creating the OmniKitHelper, with headless on?

Start the omniverse application

kit = OmniKitHelper(config=CONFIG)

Enable Livestream extension

ext_manager = omni.kit.app.get_app().get_extension_manager()
kit.set_setting(“/app/window/drawMouse”, True)
kit.set_setting(“/app/livestream/proto”, “ws”)
ext_manager.set_extension_enabled_immediate(“omni.kit.livestream.core”, True)
ext_manager.set_extension_enabled_immediate(“omni.kit.livestream.native”, True)

https://docs.omniverse.nvidia.com/app_isaacsim/app_isaacsim/sample_python_basic.html#livestream-py

We have an example livestream.py there as well.

I am getting following error when I run the livestream example:

[7.160s] [ext: omni.kit.window.console-0.0.0] startup
[7.163s] [ext: omni.isaac.motion_planning-0.1.4] startup
[7.172s] [ext: omni.isaac.occupancy_map-0.1.0] startup
[7.179s] [ext: omni.kit.widget.prompt-1.0.0] startup
[7.183s] [ext: omni.kit.asset_converter-1.1.22] startup
[7.220s] [ext: omni.kit.window.script_editor-1.5.0] startup
[7.221s] [ext: omni.kit.window.status_bar-0.0.0] startup
[7.223s] [ext: omni.rtx.window.settings-0.6.0] startup
[7.230s] [ext: omni.isaac.synthetic_utils-0.1.0] startup
[7.244s] [ext: omni.kit.widget.graph-1.1.2] startup
[7.252s] [ext: omni.kit.window.profiler-1.0.0] startup
[7.258s] [ext: omni.rtx.settings.core-0.5.4] startup
[7.264s] [ext: omni.isaac.dr-0.1.6] startup
[7.271s] [ext: omni.kit.window.extensions-1.0.2] startup
[7.277s] [ext: omni.isaac.urdf-0.1.4] startup
[7.289s] [ext: omni.isaac.contact_sensor-0.1.0] startup
[7.295s] [ext: omni.isaac.python_app-0.0.0] startup
[7.297s] [ext: omni.isaac.sim.python-2021.1.1] startup
[7.297s] app started
OmniKitHelper Starting up …
OmniKitHelper Startup Complete
[96.676s] [ext: omni.kit.livestream.core-0.0.0] startup
[96.685s] [ext: omni.kit.livestream.native-0.0.0] startup

Active user not found. Using default user [kiosk]2021-08-23 21:40:31 [96,894ms] [Error] [carb.livestream.plugin] Stream Server: starting the server failed, 0x800B1002
2021-08-23 21:40:31 [96,894ms] [Error] [carb.livestream.plugin] Could not initialize streaming components

And it is stuck here.

Have you seen this error before?

Any updates?

Hi. The livestream server error could be caused by a running process of already opened ports.
Can you try kill the docker container and try again or reboot your EC2 instance?

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Yes! I was able to run this after I stopped the ./runheadless.kitremote.sh remote client script. It is running smoothly now.

Thanks a lot for your help!

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