Fairseq: Segmentation fault with Levenshtein Transformer (build issue with libnat)

[xiaoshengjun]

Hi, when I trained a new Levenshtein Transformer in my datasets, and it was processed by process.py by '--joined-dictionary', It will show this error, and I trained the model in two gpus. Could you help me find the reasons, thanks very much.

File "train.py", line 343, in
cli_main()
File "train.py", line 335, in cli_main
nprocs=args.distributed_world_size,
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 171, in spawn
while not spawn_context.join():
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 107, in join
(error_index, name)
Exception: process 1 terminated with signal SIGSEGV

And when I trained the model in 3 gpus, the error is :

170848, 512Traceback (most recent call last):
File "train.py", line 343, in
cli_main()
File "train.py", line 335, in cli_main
nprocs=args.distributed_world_size,
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 171, in spawn
while not spawn_context.join():
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 107, in join
(error_index, name)
Exception: process 2 terminated with signal SIGSEGV
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 105, in spawn_main
exitcode = _main(fd)
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 115, in _main
self = reduction.pickle.load(from_parent)
_pickle.UnpicklingError: pickle data was truncated

[sdll]

Similar issues:

• https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/issues/1308
• https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/issues/1305

[xiaoshengjun]

Oh, thank you.

Similar issues:

• #1308
• #1305

[xiaoshengjun]

hi, @sdll , the issues #1308 and #1305 do not solve the problem.

[myleott]

This should be fixed now, can you please try again?

[xiaoshengjun]

This should be fixed now, can you please try again?

hi, thanks for you replay， and I download the latest version of fairseq， and processed the data ‘--joined-dictionary’， but when I trained a new model， the problem is：

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "train.py", line 337, in
cli_main()
File "train.py", line 329, in cli_main
nprocs=args.distributed_world_size,
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 171, in spawn
while not spawn_context.join():
File "/root/anaconda3/envs/len_transform/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 107, in join
(error_index, name)
Exception: process 3 terminated with signal SIGSEGV

could you help me？

[MultiPath]

seems to be a multi-gpu error? Can you try running on single GPU for debugging?

[xiaoshengjun]

seems to be a multi-gpu error? Can you try running on single GPU for debugging?

hi， I have used in single GPU， when the model loaded the trained data， the code is over, but it does not show anything, and I can the GPU is not used.

[MultiPath]

seems to be a multi-gpu error? Can you try running on single GPU for debugging?

hi， I have used in single GPU， when the model loaded the trained data， the code is over, but it does not show anything, and I can the GPU is not used.

@xiaoshengjun just following up. Is the problem still there in the recent refactored codebase?

[gvskalyan]

@MultiPath this still occurs in recent codebase.
Even without apex. With less no of max tokens and with higher gcc version and nvcc installed.
Installed fairseq via python setup.py build_ext --inplace.
Even on single GPU, it is segmentation fault.
Please recheck.

[myleott]

I just ran the example command in the README and it works fine.

Can you confirm that libnat is built properly? Please try running the following:

$ python -c 'from fairseq import libnat; print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))'

You should see something like: [[[0], [0], [0], [0], [5, 6], [0, 1, 0, 0]]]

[xiaoshengjun]

python -c 'from fairseq import libnat; print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))'

Thanks for your reply, and I have run the command what you said above, and get :

from fairseq import libnat
print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))
Segmentation fault

so something is wrong in my environment?

[xiaoshengjun]

seems to be a multi-gpu error? Can you try running on single GPU for debugging?

hi， I have used in single GPU， when the model loaded the trained data， the code is over, but it does not show anything, and I can the GPU is not used.

@xiaoshengjun just following up. Is the problem still there in the recent refactored codebase?

yes, I also meet the problem.

[myleott]

so something is wrong in my environment?

Yes, libnat has not been built properly. Can you please run python setup.py build_ext --inplace and share the output here?

[xiaoshengjun]

so something is wrong in my environment?

Yes, libnat has not been built properly. Can you please run python setup.py build_ext --inplace and share the output here?

hi, the output is：

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

which: no nvcc in (/root/anaconda3/envs/fq09py12/bin:/root/anaconda3/condabin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/ibutils/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/libexec/git-core:/root/bin)
running build_ext
/root/anaconda3/envs/fq09py12/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/utils/cpp_extension.py:196: UserWarning:

                           !! WARNING !!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your compiler (g++ 4.8.5) may be ABI-incompatible with PyTorch!
Please use a compiler that is ABI-compatible with GCC 4.9 and above.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/abi.html.

See https://gist.github.com/goldsborough/d466f43e8ffc948ff92de7486c5216d6
for instructions on how to install GCC 4.9 or higher.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          !! WARNING !!

warnings.warn(ABI_INCOMPATIBILITY_WARNING.format(compiler))
skipping 'fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'fairseq/data/token_block_utils_fast.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date)
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/fairseq/libbleu.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq/data
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/fairseq/data/token_block_utils_fast.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq/data
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.6/fairseq/libnat.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq

[myleott]

Please follow the instructions in the warning message :)

[gvskalyan]

so something is wrong in my environment?

Yes, libnat has not been built properly. Can you please run python setup.py build_ext --inplace and share the output here?

My output:
running build_ext
skipping 'fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date)
skipping 'fairseq/data/token_block_utils_fast.cpp' Cython extension (up-to-date)
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/fairseq/libbleu.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq/data
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/fairseq/data/token_block_utils_fast.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq/data
copying build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7/fairseq/libnat.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -> fairseq

And the snippet python -c 'from fairseq import libnat; print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))' gives Segmentation fault.

Recloned the Repo and tried installing and it gives the following error ::
Complete output (12 lines):
running develop
running egg_info
writing fairseq.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to fairseq.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to fairseq.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing requirements to fairseq.egg-info/requires.txt
writing top-level names to fairseq.egg-info/top_level.txt
reading manifest file 'fairseq.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'fairseq.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
running build_ext
cythoning fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.pyx to fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.cpp
error: /home/workspace/nat/fairseq/fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.pyx

[gvskalyan]

Steps ::

1. conda create -n nat python=3.7 && conda activate nat
2. git clone https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq.git && cd fairseq
3. conda install -c psi4 gcc-5
4. conda install libgcc -y
5. pip install torch && pip install cython
6. python setup.py build_ext
7. python setup.py install --user

[myleott]

Can you install gcc from the main channel instead? Something like:

conda install gcc_linux-64 gxx_linux-64

There should be versions for other platforms/architectures too.

Here's what I just ran and it works as expected:

1. conda create -n nat python=3.7 && conda activate nat
2. git clone https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq.git && cd fairseq
3. conda install gcc_linux-64 gxx_linux-64
4. pip install torch && pip install cython
5. python setup.py build_ext --inplace
6. python -c 'from fairseq import libnat; print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))'

[xiaoshengjun]

Please follow the instructions in the warning message :)

The problem has been solved after I update the version of gcc, thanks.

[gvskalyan]

Can you install gcc from the main channel instead? Something like:

conda install gcc_linux-64 gxx_linux-64

There should be versions for other platforms/architectures too.

Here's what I just ran and it works as expected:

1. conda create -n nat python=3.7 && conda activate nat

2. git clone https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq.git && cd fairseq

3. conda install gcc_linux-64 gxx_linux-64

4. pip install torch && pip install cython

5. python setup.py build_ext --inplace

6. python -c 'from fairseq import libnat; print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))'

Solved Thanks.

[gvskalyan]

@myleott when I run scaling-nmt translation example, https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/blame/master/examples/scaling_nmt/README.md#L40 in the above conda environment along with --encoder-layerdrop 0.2 the gpu utilisation amounts to 100 and training does not start and is stuck but with the --ddp-backend no_c10d it is working fine.
Whereas without --encoder/decoder-layerdrop it works with/without ddp-backend.
Is this intended behaviour?

[myleott]

Yes, no_c10d is required when some of the model parameters are not used in the forward pass, as is the case with LayerDrop.

[luofuli]

Can you install gcc from the main channel instead? Something like:

conda install gcc_linux-64 gxx_linux-64

There should be versions for other platforms/architectures too.

Here's what I just ran and it works as expected:

1. conda create -n nat python=3.7 && conda activate nat
2. git clone https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq.git && cd fairseq
3. conda install gcc_linux-64 gxx_linux-64
4. pip install torch && pip install cython
5. python setup.py build_ext --inplace
6. python -c 'from fairseq import libnat; print(libnat.suggested_ed2_path([[1, 2, 3, 4]], [[1, 3, 4, 5, 6]], 0))'

great! It works!!!!!!!!