[Q] UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 0: invalid start byte about wandb HOT 11 CLOSED

Hi, I found that the issue with the initialization of wandb was due to its inability to retrieve the GPU model and CPU model during initialization. However, when I commented out that part of the code, wandb was able to initialize normally. It might be because I am using the latest version of the Nvidia driver, version 555.99, and wandb cannot get the corresponding GPU model from the driver, causing the error.

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Hi，My solution is to avoid using pynvml to get GPU information. The downside is that you won't be able to see GPU and CPU-related information on the wandb website. In the code, you can comment out the code I showed in the probe function of the library file wandb/sdk/internal/system/assets, and then wandb will work normally.

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I'm seeing this today after upgrading to the v555 of the NVIDIA drivers. I can confirm commenting out this block bypasses the error for now.

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same problem, how to fix it?

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Can concur the same problem occurring with driver ver 555.99

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Thank you for surfacing this. I will raise with our engineering team and we will keep you posted with the progress

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WandB Internal User commented:
zzk2021 commented:

same problem, how to fix it?

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WandB Internal User commented:
Wissotsky commented:
Can concur the same problem occurring with driver ver 555.99

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WandB Internal User commented:
CYYJL commented:
@Wissotsky @zzk2021
Hi，My solution is to avoid using pynvml to get GPU information. The downside is that you won't be able to see GPU and CPU-related information on the wandb website. In the code, you can comment out the code I showed in the probe function of the library file wandb/sdk/internal/system/assets, and then wandb will work normally.

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Thanks, looks like the fix worked.

In case anyone else is having this issue, make sure you upgrade to 0.17.2

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Please upgrade to version 0.17.2 and turn on our new backend wandb-core with wandb.require("core") after importing wandb. No source code modification should be necessary.

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