TLT Launcher show docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version

Hi, I am trying to run LPR demo.
(https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/creating-a-real-time-license-plate-detection-and-recognition-app).

I had a problem with preparing the dataset.
(tlt detectnet_v2 dataset_convert -d /workspace/openalpr/SPECS_tfrecord.txt -o /workspace/openalpr/lpd_tfrecord/lpd)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 677, in urlopen
chunked=chunked,
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 392, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1281, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1327, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1276, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1042, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 980, in send
self.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py”, line 43, in connect
sock.connect(self.unix_socket)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 449, in send
timeout=timeout
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 727, in urlopen
method, url, error=e, _pool=self, _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2]
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py”, line 403, in increment
raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/packages/six.py”, line 734, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 677, in urlopen
chunked=chunked,
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 392, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1281, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1327, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1276, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 1042, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/http/client.py”, line 980, in send
self.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py”, line 43, in connect
sock.connect(self.unix_socket)
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: (‘Connection aborted.’, FileNotFoundError(2, ‘No such file or directory’))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 205, in _retrieve_server_version
return self.version(api_version=False)[“ApiVersion”]
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/api/daemon.py”, line 181, in version
return self._result(self._get(url), json=True)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/utils/decorators.py”, line 46, in inner
return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 228, in _get
return self.get(url, **self._set_request_timeout(kwargs))
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 543, in get
return self.request(‘GET’, url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 530, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 643, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 498, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: (‘Connection aborted.’, FileNotFoundError(2, ‘No such file or directory’))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/tlt”, line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tlt/entrypoint/entrypoint.py”, line 114, in main
args[1:]
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tlt/components/instance_handler/local_instance.py”, line 250, in launch_command
docker_handler = self.handler_map[
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tlt/components/instance_handler/local_instance.py”, line 107, in handler_map
docker_digest=map_val.docker_digest
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tlt/components/docker_handler/docker_handler.py”, line 44, in init
self._docker_client = docker.from_env()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/client.py”, line 85, in from_env
timeout=timeout, version=version, **kwargs_from_env(**kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/client.py”, line 40, in init
self.api = APIClient(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 188, in init
self._version = self._retrieve_server_version()
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/docker/api/client.py”, line 213, in _retrieve_server_version
‘Error while fetching server API version: {0}’.format(e)
docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: (‘Connection aborted.’, FileNotFoundError(2, ‘No such file or directory’))

It shows the same problem when I run
tlt detectnet_v2 (-h)

I test my tlt version.
Configuration of the TLT Instance
dockers: [‘nvcr.io/nvidia/tlt-streamanalytics’, ‘nvcr.io/nvidia/tlt-pytorch’]
format_version: 1.0
tlt_version: 3.0
published_date: 02/02/2021

My container is
nvcr.io/nvidia/tlt-streamanalytics:v3.0-dp-py3

I run everything inside a container.
I don’t know what’s wrong?

If you run everything inside a docker, please refer to Error when trying to run gazenet notebook - #18 by Morganh

I tied the same way and logged successfully but the problem isn’t solved.

Can you share all the log?

  • How did you trigger the container? What is the command?
  • How did you install TLT 3 in the container?

You mention that you run everything on a container. What is the container? As mentioned above, it is possible to run TLT 3 launcher inside another docker.

I trigger the container:
sudo docker run -it -v /data/data1/name/tlt-experiments:/workspace/tlt-experiments -v /data/data1/name/openalpr:/workspace/openalpr nvcr.io/nvidia/tlt-streamanalytics:v3.0-dp-py3 /bin/bash

Then install TLT 3 launcher:
pip3 install nvidia-pyindex
pip3 install nvidia-tlt

I do these in orders and make sure the container version and TLT 3 launcher matches.

As mentioned in Error when trying to run gazenet notebook - #18 by Morganh, please add
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock