'failed to create process error' after installation

[kechegoyen]

Bug description

I was able to download and install all of the packages for SLEAP, but my GUI will not pop-up when I type the command "sleap-label".

Expected behaviour

GUI opens.

Actual behaviour

Failed to create process.

Your personal set up

SLEAP: 1.2.3
TensorFlow: 2.6.3
Numpy: 1.19.5
Python: 3.7.12
OS: Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0

I actually have Windows 11. I am not sure why it says Windows 10 above.

GPUs: 1/1 available
Device: /physical_device:GPU:0
Available: True
Initalized: False
Memory growth: None
[PhysicalDevice(name='/physical_device:GPU:0', device_type='GPU')]

• SLEAP installation method (listed here):
  • Conda from package

Environment packages

# paste output of `pip freeze` or `conda list` here

packages in environment at C:\Users\Kimberly Echegoyen.conda\envs\sleap:

Name Version Build Channel

absl-py 0.15.0 pypi_0 pypi
astunparse 1.6.3 pypi_0 pypi
attrs 21.2.0 pypi_0 pypi
backports-zoneinfo 0.2.1 pypi_0 pypi
ca-certificates 2022.5.18.1 h5b45459_0 conda-forge
cached-property 1.5.2 hd8ed1ab_1 conda-forge
cached_property 1.5.2 pyha770c72_1 conda-forge
cachetools 4.2.4 pypi_0 pypi
cattrs 1.1.1 pypi_0 pypi
certifi 2021.10.8 pypi_0 pypi
charset-normalizer 2.0.12 pypi_0 pypi
clang 5.0 pypi_0 pypi
colorama 0.4.4 pypi_0 pypi
commonmark 0.9.1 pypi_0 pypi
cuda-nvcc 11.3.58 hb8d16a4_0 nvidia
cudatoolkit 11.3.1 h280eb24_10 conda-forge
cudnn 8.2.1.32 h754d62a_0 conda-forge
cycler 0.11.0 pypi_0 pypi
efficientnet 1.0.0 pypi_0 pypi
ffmpeg 4.3.1 ha925a31_0 conda-forge
flatbuffers 1.12 pypi_0 pypi
fonttools 4.33.3 pypi_0 pypi
freetype 2.10.4 h546665d_1 conda-forge
gast 0.4.0 pypi_0 pypi
geos 3.9.1 h39d44d4_2 conda-forge
google-auth 1.35.0 pypi_0 pypi
google-auth-oauthlib 0.4.6 pypi_0 pypi
google-pasta 0.2.0 pypi_0 pypi
grpcio 1.44.0 pypi_0 pypi
h5py 3.1.0 nompi_py37h19fda09_100 conda-forge
hdf5 1.10.6 nompi_he0bbb20_101 conda-forge
idna 3.3 pypi_0 pypi
image-classifiers 1.0.0 pypi_0 pypi
imageio 2.15.0 pypi_0 pypi
imgaug 0.4.0 pypi_0 pypi
imgstore 0.2.9 pypi_0 pypi
importlib-metadata 4.11.1 pypi_0 pypi
intel-openmp 2022.1.0 h57928b3_3787 conda-forge
joblib 1.1.0 pypi_0 pypi
jpeg 9e h8ffe710_1 conda-forge
jsmin 3.0.1 pypi_0 pypi
jsonpickle 1.2 pypi_0 pypi
keras 2.6.0 pypi_0 pypi
keras-applications 1.0.8 pypi_0 pypi
keras-preprocessing 1.1.2 pypi_0 pypi
kiwisolver 1.4.2 pypi_0 pypi
lcms2 2.12 h2a16943_0 conda-forge
lerc 3.0 h0e60522_0 conda-forge
libblas 3.9.0 15_win64_mkl conda-forge
libcblas 3.9.0 15_win64_mkl conda-forge
libdeflate 1.10 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
liblapack 3.9.0 15_win64_mkl conda-forge
libpng 1.6.37 h1d00b33_2 conda-forge
libtiff 4.3.0 hc4061b1_4 conda-forge
libzlib 1.2.12 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
lz4-c 1.9.3 h8ffe710_1 conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libgfortran 5.3.0 6 conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libs 5.3.0 7 conda-forge
m2w64-gcc-libs-core 5.3.0 7 conda-forge
m2w64-gmp 6.1.0 2 conda-forge
m2w64-libwinpthread-git 5.0.0.4634.697f757 2 conda-forge
markdown 3.3.6 pypi_0 pypi
matplotlib 3.5.2 pypi_0 pypi
mkl 2022.1.0 h6a75c08_874 conda-forge
msys2-conda-epoch 20160418 1 conda-forge
networkx 2.6.3 pypi_0 pypi
numpy 1.19.5 py37h4c2b6ed_3 conda-forge
oauthlib 3.2.0 pypi_0 pypi
olefile 0.46 pyh9f0ad1d_1 conda-forge
opencv-python 4.5.5.62 pypi_0 pypi
opencv-python-headless 4.5.5.62 pypi_0 pypi
openjpeg 2.4.0 hb211442_1 conda-forge
openssl 3.0.3 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
opt-einsum 3.3.0 pypi_0 pypi
packaging 21.3 pypi_0 pypi
pandas 1.3.5 py37h9386db6_0 conda-forge
pillow 8.4.0 py37hd7d9ad0_0 conda-forge
pip 22.0.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
protobuf 3.19.4 pypi_0 pypi
psutil 5.9.0 pypi_0 pypi
pyasn1 0.4.8 pypi_0 pypi
pyasn1-modules 0.2.8 pypi_0 pypi
pygments 2.12.0 pypi_0 pypi
pykalman 0.9.5 pypi_0 pypi
pyparsing 3.0.6 pypi_0 pypi
pyreadline 2.1 py37h03978a9_1005 conda-forge
pyside2 5.14.1 pypi_0 pypi
python 3.7.12 h900ac77_100_cpython conda-forge
python-dateutil 2.8.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python-rapidjson 1.6 pypi_0 pypi
python_abi 3.7 2_cp37m conda-forge
pytz 2022.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pytz-deprecation-shim 0.1.0.post0 pypi_0 pypi
pywavelets 1.3.0 pypi_0 pypi
pyzmq 22.3.0 pypi_0 pypi
qimage2ndarray 1.8.3 pypi_0 pypi
requests 2.27.1 pypi_0 pypi
requests-oauthlib 1.3.1 pypi_0 pypi
rich 10.16.1 pypi_0 pypi
scikit-image 0.19.2 pypi_0 pypi
scikit-learn 1.0.2 pypi_0 pypi
scikit-video 1.1.11 pypi_0 pypi
scipy 1.7.3 py37hb6553fb_0 conda-forge
seaborn 0.11.2 pypi_0 pypi
segmentation-models 1.0.1 pypi_0 pypi
setuptools 59.8.0 py37h03978a9_1 conda-forge
setuptools-scm 6.4.2 pypi_0 pypi
shapely 1.7.1 py37hc520ffa_5 conda-forge
shiboken2 5.14.1 pypi_0 pypi
six 1.15.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
sleap 1.2.3 pypi_0 pypi
sqlite 3.38.5 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
tbb 2021.5.0 h2d74725_1 conda-forge
tensorboard 2.6.0 pypi_0 pypi
tensorboard-data-server 0.6.1 pypi_0 pypi
tensorboard-plugin-wit 1.8.1 pypi_0 pypi
tensorflow 2.6.3 pypi_0 pypi
tensorflow-estimator 2.6.0 pypi_0 pypi
termcolor 1.1.0 pypi_0 pypi
threadpoolctl 3.1.0 pypi_0 pypi
tifffile 2021.11.2 pypi_0 pypi
tk 8.6.12 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
tomli 2.0.1 pypi_0 pypi
typing-extensions 3.10.0.2 pypi_0 pypi
tzdata 2022.1 pypi_0 pypi
tzlocal 4.2 pypi_0 pypi
ucrt 10.0.20348.0 h57928b3_0 conda-forge
urllib3 1.26.8 pypi_0 pypi
vc 14.2 hb210afc_6 conda-forge
vs2015_runtime 14.29.30037 h902a5da_6 conda-forge
werkzeug 2.0.3 pypi_0 pypi
wheel 0.37.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
wrapt 1.12.1 pypi_0 pypi
xz 5.2.5 h62dcd97_1 conda-forge
zipp 3.7.0 pypi_0 pypi
zlib 1.2.12 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
zstd 1.5.2 h6255e5f_1 conda-forge

Logs

(sleap) PS C:\Users\Kimberly Echegoyen> sleap-label
failed to create process.
(sleap) PS C:\Users\Kimberly Echegoyen> sleap-diagnostic
failed to create process.

Screenshots

How to reproduce

(base) PS C:\Users\Kimberly Echegoyen> conda activate sleap
(sleap) PS C:\Users\Kimberly Echegoyen> sleap-label
failed to create process.

[talmo]

Hi @kechegoyen,

Converting this to a Discussion since it comes up fairly regularly. Paraphrasing from a previous issue:

This is an issue with the Python installation path. This is a common issue on Windows where you'll have problems if there are any spaces in the path to python.exe.

You can check by just trying to run python (should give you the same error) or by typing where python in the commandline and seeing the filename that gets printed.

The fix is to just reinstall Miniconda in C:\Miniconda3 or C:\ProgramFiles\Miniconda3.

Let us know if that still doesn't work for you after reinstalling.

Cheers,

Talmo

[roomrys]

I recently helped a user correct this on their system, and while it is likely not the best solution, we got it working by doing the following:

0. Uninstall miniconda
1. Install miniconda to C:/miniconda3 with the following options selected:

• install for all users
• "Register Anaconda as my default Python"

2. Install sleap in the anaconda terminal using a modified version of the usual command:

• remove the "-n sleap"
• add a new path to store the environment (--prefix <path_without_spaces>, i.e. --prefix C:/Users/Public/sleap)

conda create -y -c sleap -c nvidia -c conda-forge sleap --prefix C:/Users/Public/sleap

By this point things were working. For ease of use, we set the path to the sleap environment as an environment variable (accessible through %<name_of_env_variable>%):

3. Set the path to the conda environment as an environment variable setx sleap C:/Users/Public/sleap
4. Open a new Anaconda terminal! and activate the environment with conda activate %sleap%

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There has to be a way to change where conda is storing environments by default. This post does not include that solution (which is probably the best solution), but proves that where the conda environment is being stored also matters (no spaces)!