gcloud compute tpus list => ERROR: (gcloud.compute.tpus.list) PERMISSION_DENIED

[alexryan]

I was trying to debug an error that I am getting when I try to train with MNIST:
__init__.py:44] file_cache is unavailable when using oauth2client >= 4.0.0 or google-auth

and was following the troubleshooting steps:
https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/troubleshooting

when I got this other strange error:
>gcloud compute tpus list ERROR: (gcloud.compute.tpus.list) PERMISSION_DENIED: Read access to project 'annotator-1286' was denied

I am running running version 1.7 of ctpu on macOS High Sierra

I it unclear to me why I am getting this error.
$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS is set correctly.

The active config is also correct.
`>gcloud config list
[compute]
region = us-central1
zone = us-central1-a
[core]
account = annotator@annotator-1286.iam.gserviceaccount.com
disable_usage_reporting = False
project = annotator-1286

Your active configuration is: [annotator]
`

The only thing I can think of is that the zone tpu was launched in a different zone like so.
ctpu up --zone us-central1-b --preemptible --name alex-tpu

I'm wondering if this auth issue is related to the auth issue that I am getting when I try to train MNIST on the vm?
https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/tutorials/mnist

[chrislarkin]

@alexryan: gcloud is using us-central1-a as its default zone. If you created the TPU in another zone, you need to either update the default or pass the zone manually:

gcloud compute tpus list --zone us-central1-b

[alexryan]

@chrislarkin: That works. Thank you.