english spaCy models not found in spacy-en docker image

[Syndace]

Rasa version: latest (1.5.0a1), also tested on 1.4.5 (most recent stable release)

Operating system (windows, osx, ...): running docker-ce on debian 10

Issue: When using the rasa/rasa:latest-spacy-en docker image, starting the HTTP API and trying to train NLU, the server reports that the spaCy models are not installed/linked. (Note: I also tried version 1.4.5). When using the rasa/rasa:latest-full docker image instead, there are no issues.

Error (including full traceback):

{"version":"1.5.0a1","status":"failure","message":"An unexpected error occurred during training. Error: Model 'en' is not a linked spaCy model.  Please download and\/or link a spaCy model, e.g. by running:\npython -m spacy download en_core_web_md\npython -m spacy link en_core_web_md en","reason":"TrainingError","details":{},"help":null,"code":500}

Command or request that led to error:

$ docker run -p 5005:5005 rasa/rasa:latest-spacy-en run --enable-api
$ curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --request POST \
    --data '{"config": "language: en\npipeline: pretrained_embeddings_spacy", "nlu": "## intent:test\n- Please run the tests\n", "force": true, "save_to_default_model_directory": true}' \
    http://localhost:5005/model/train

Content of configuration file (config.yml) (if relevant):

language: "en"
pipeline: "pretrained_embeddings_spacy"

[Syndace]

I'm sorry, it looks like latest-full in fact has the same issue. It works as expected in version 1.4.1-full. Im going to test a few more tags and report my results by editing this comment.

EDIT: My results

Following tags work as expected:

• 1.4.1-spacy-en
• 1.4.1-full
• 1.4.2-spacy-en
• 1.4.2-full
• 1.4.3-spacy-en
• 1.4.3-full

Following tags don't:

• 1.4.5-spacy-en
• 1.4.5-full
• latest-spacy-en
• latest-full

So it looks like the spaCy model installation broke in 1.4.5, for all docker tags.

[sara-tagger]

Thanks for raising this issue, @erohmensing will get back to you about it soon✨

Please also check out the docs and the forum in case your issue was raised there too 🤗

[erohmensing]

Thanks for the detailed write up of what works! I'm looking into it. Seems that the linking in the docker build says that it works fine, but I can replicate the error with your training request (thanks for that btw)

[Syndace]

The issue is fixed in the current latest-image, thanks!