GUI not starting - macOS

[candacejohnsonbakerlab]

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Bug description

After typing "pythonw -m deeplabcut" I am receiving an error. "You installed DLC lite, thus GUI's cannot be used. If you need GUI support please: pip install 'deeplabcut[gui]''. After installing that pip the same issue appears. How can I get the GUI to start?

Operating System

operating system MacOS Big Sur

DeepLabCut version

dlc version

DeepLabCut mode

single animal

Device type

CPU

Steps To Reproduce

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Relevant log output

"You installed DLC lite, thus GUI's cannot be used. If you need GUI support please: pip install 'deeplabcut[gui]''.

File ~/opt/anaconda3/envs/DEEPLABCUT/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wx/core.py:2102, in App.__init__(self, redirect, filename, useBestVisual, clearSigInt)
   2099         msg = "Unable to create GUI"
   2100         # TODO: more description is needed for wxMSW...
-> 2102     raise SystemExit(msg)
   2104 # This has to be done before OnInit
   2105 self.SetUseBestVisual(useBestVisual)

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[jeylau]

Hello @candacejohnsonbakerlab, I'm sorry for the delayed answer. Have you fixed it? For some reasons, the package wxpython must be missing from your environment. Could you show the output of conda list once in your environment?

[candacejohnsonbakerlab]

I have not be able to resolve the issue. When I do the output conda list the wxpython is there. Here is the output:

(DEEPLABCUT) candacejohnson@river DeepLabCut % conda list
# packages in environment at /Users/candacejohnson/opt/anaconda3/envs/DEEPLABCUT:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
absl-py                   1.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
aom                       3.4.0                hb486fe8_1    conda-forge
appnope                   0.1.3              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
argon2-cffi               21.3.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
argon2-cffi-bindings      21.2.0           py38hed1de0f_2    conda-forge
asttokens                 2.0.5              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
astunparse                1.6.3                    pypi_0    pypi
attrs                     21.4.0             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
backcall                  0.2.0              pyh9f0ad1d_0    conda-forge
backports                 1.0                        py_2    conda-forge
backports.functools_lru_cache 1.6.4              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
beautifulsoup4            4.11.1             pyha770c72_0    conda-forge
bleach                    5.0.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                h0d85af4_4    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2022.6.15            h033912b_0    conda-forge
cachetools                5.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
certifi                   2022.6.15                pypi_0    pypi
cffi                      1.15.1           py38h86886aa_0    conda-forge
charset-normalizer        2.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
cycler                    0.11.0                   pypi_0    pypi
debugpy                   1.6.0            py38h038c8f4_0    conda-forge
decorator                 5.1.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
deeplabcut                2.2.1.1                  pypi_0    pypi
defusedxml                0.7.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
entrypoints               0.4                pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
executing                 0.9.0              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
expat                     2.4.8                h96cf925_0    conda-forge
ffmpeg                    5.0.1           gpl_h96dde7a_107    conda-forge
filterpy                  1.4.5                    pypi_0    pypi
flatbuffers               1.12                     pypi_0    pypi
flit-core                 3.7.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-dejavu-sans-mono 2.37                 hab24e00_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-inconsolata      3.000                h77eed37_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-source-code-pro  2.038                h77eed37_0    conda-forge
font-ttf-ubuntu           0.83                 hab24e00_0    conda-forge
fontconfig                2.14.0               h676cef8_0    conda-forge
fonts-conda-ecosystem     1                             0    conda-forge
fonts-conda-forge         1                             0    conda-forge
fonttools                 4.34.4                   pypi_0    pypi
freetype                  2.10.4               h4cff582_1    conda-forge
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icu                       70.1                 h96cf925_0    conda-forge
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imageio                   2.19.5                   pypi_0    pypi
imgaug                    0.4.0                    pypi_0    pypi
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ipython                   8.4.0            py38h50d1736_0    conda-forge
ipython_genutils          0.2.0                      py_1    conda-forge
ipywidgets                7.7.1              pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
jedi                      0.18.1           py38h50d1736_1    conda-forge
jinja2                    3.1.2              pyhd8ed1ab_1    conda-forge
joblib                    1.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jpeg                      9e                   hac89ed1_2    conda-forge
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keras-preprocessing       1.1.2                    pypi_0    pypi
kiwisolver                1.4.4                    pypi_0    pypi
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libcxx                    14.0.6               hce7ea42_0    conda-forge
libedit                   3.1.20191231         h0678c8f_2    conda-forge
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mysql-common              8.0.29               h924029e_1    conda-forge
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openssl                   1.1.1q               hfe4f2af_0    conda-forge
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[candacejohnsonbakerlab]

This is another error I receive when trying to launch the GUI:

In [3]: deeplabcut.launch_dlc()
An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

SystemExit: This program needs access to the screen. Please run with a
Framework build of python, and only when you are logged in
on the main display of your Mac.

/Users/candacejohnson/opt/anaconda3/envs/DEEPLABCUT/lib/python3.8/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:3406: UserWarning: To exit: use 'exit', 'quit', or Ctrl-D.
  warn("To exit: use 'exit', 'quit', or Ctrl-D.", stacklevel=1)

In [4]: %tb
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemExit                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Input In [3], in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 deeplabcut.launch_dlc()

File ~/opt/anaconda3/envs/DEEPLABCUT/lib/python3.8/site-packages/deeplabcut/gui/launch_script.py:47, in launch_dlc()
     44 def launch_dlc():
     45     mpl.use("WxAgg")
---> 47     app = wx.App()
     48     app.locale = wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_ENGLISH)
     49     frame = MainFrame().Show()

File ~/opt/anaconda3/envs/DEEPLABCUT/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wx/core.py:2102, in App.__init__(self, redirect, filename, useBestVisual, clearSigInt)
   2099         msg = "Unable to create GUI"
   2100         # TODO: more description is needed for wxMSW...
-> 2102     raise SystemExit(msg)
   2104 # This has to be done before OnInit
   2105 self.SetUseBestVisual(useBestVisual)

SystemExit: This program needs access to the screen. Please run with a
Framework build of python, and only when you are logged in
on the main display of your Mac.

[MMathisLab]

hi @candacejohnsonbakerlab the second error is expected; on MacOS you can't launch from ipython, as it's not a framework build of python. You will need to run pythonw -m deeplabcut directly from the terminal. Your conda env has wxpython, so it should all work, very strange -- can you post the full output of your terminal when you run pythonw -m deeplabcut

[candacejohnsonbakerlab]

Thanks for getting back to me! This is what I receive when I run that command

(DEEPLABCUT) candacejohnson@river ~ % pythonw -m deeplabcut
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: No module named deeplabcut
(DEEPLABCUT) candacejohnson@river ~ % pythonw -m DEEPLABCUT
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: No module named DEEPLABCUT

[jeylau]

For some reasons, pythonw is linked to python 2.7 and not to the one in your environment. Users had found the solution to this very problem here. It should work fine afterwards ☺️.

[MMathisLab]

yep! just need to be sure to use python3, so activate env, and run conda install python.app

[candacejohnsonbakerlab]

Thank you!! It worked!