Rasa X deployment problem with custom component from Rasa NLU Examples

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Hey there, I hope you can help me fixing my problem. I use Rasa X 0.35.0 on a Ubuntu 18.04 server. It was installed with the docker-compose installation script. My config.yml contains the BytePairFeaturizer from Rasa NLU Examples so I edited the docker-compose.yml and changed the worker-container like this:

rasa-worker:

    hostname: rasa-worker
    extra_hosts:
      - "rasa-x:172.28.0.20"
    <<: *default-rasa-service
    volumes:
       - /rasa-extensions/rasa-nlu-examples/:/app/rasa-nlu-examples
    environment:
      <<: *rasa-credentials
      PYTHONPATH: "/rasa-extensions/rasa-nlu-examples/:/app/rasa-nlu-examples"
      RASA_ENVIRONMENT: "worker"
      DB_DATABASE: "worker_tracker"
      MPLCONFIGDIR: "/tmp/.matplotlib"
      RASA_MODEL_SERVER: "http://rasa-x:5002/api/projects/default/models/tags/production"

I already tried export PYTHONPATH=/rasa-extensions/rasa-nlu-examples/ and

sudo chgrp -R root /etc/rasa/* && sudo chmod -R 770 /etc/rasa/*
sudo chown -R 1001 /etc/rasa/db && sudo chmod -R 750 /etc/rasa/db

But as soon as I hit “train model” in Rasa X I get the following error (even before adding the BytePairFeaturizer to my config):

2021-01-22 14:47:48 WARNING  rasa.utils.common  - Failed to write global config. Error: [Errno 13] 
Permission denied: '/.config'. Skipping.

Changing the docker-compose.yml back to the normal woker script works fine. But then I can’t use my config.yml

2

Hi there! Did you remove any volumes when you added the volume mapping for the rasa-extensions? I believe we map a directory for ./config which would error if it is missing there.

3

Hey, the volume for config is mentioned at default-rasa-service. And the worker is an extension from the default-service, so there was no volume for config mentioned. But I will try to add it, maybe the volumes description here overrides the first volume?