wandb: Error while calling W&B API: permission denied

Hello,

I am training a model on a remote server and I got this error after running on the terminal wandb login and running the training script itself.

wandb: Tracking run with wandb version 0.8.15
wandb: Run data is saved locally in wandb/run-20191107_074736-rjih2419
wandb: ERROR Error while calling W&B API: permission denied (<Response [403]>)
wandb: ERROR Launch exception: Permission denied to access wandb/Dressyou Recommender system/rjih2419
wandb: ERROR To disable wandb syncing set WANDB_MODE=dryrun
wandb: ERROR W&B process (PID 19599) did not respond
wandb: ERROR W&B process failed to launch, see: wandb/debug.log
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "script/train.py", line 168, in <module>
    wandb.init(entity="wandb", project="Dressyou Recommender system")
  File "/home/amal/miniconda3/envs/all_dep_cuda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wandb/__init__.py", line 1051, in init
    _init_headless(run)
  File "/home/amal/miniconda3/envs/all_dep_cuda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wandb/__init__.py", line 288, in _init_headless
    "W&B process failed to launch, see: {}".format(path))
wandb.run_manager.LaunchError: W&B process failed to launch, see: wandb/debug.log

Do you have an idea how to solve this please ?

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Hey @bamal it looks like you’re trying to launch runs into the “wandb” team. The quickest fix is to set entity=“bamal” (or your wandb username) when you call wandb.init

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vanpelt on Nov 20, 2019

Hey @radoye that’s a permission error. You’re trying to save results to entity="wandb", project="set-run-name-to-id" which you don’t have permission to. In your call to init, add entity="YOUR_USERNAME" and try again.

vanpelt on Apr 15, 2020

@vanpelt This indeed solves the problem. It is a bit confusing when the sample-project instructions fail, though. Maybe mention this there?

radoye on Apr 14, 2020

to anyone who has stumbled upon this topic, ensure that your program isn’t setting your “entity” somewhere in your code. It will default to your account when you are logged in, but if it is set somewhere else it will still show you as logged in successfully but will deny you (because your account doesn’t have access to this other entity)

balloch on Jan 10, 2024

@copperwiring what’s your wandb username? The code is specifying wandb.init(project="image", entity="viewmaker") which means you must be on the viewmaker team.

Hi @vanpelt , I am having a similar issue. However, in my case, I am part of more than one teamwork. My wandb keeps logging in to only one of them. I have tried deleting the old entry from my .netrc file and deleting the wandb/settings file as well. And then redoing the wandb login with the correct API_KEY, but it still shows wandb: Currently logged in as: old-team . Any advices? I tried setting the entity as my user and as the team name, but the two solutions find the old team.

stelais on Nov 30, 2021

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