# Running action server throws error

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/running-action-server-throws-error/11105>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/running-action-server-throws-error/11105 "2019-06-06T21:38:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![agrawal-mohit](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/agrawal-mohit/32/2717_2.png) [@agrawal-mohit](https://forum.rasa.com/u/agrawal-mohit)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/running-action-server-throws-error/11105/1 "2019-06-06T21:38:14Z")

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`rasa run actions.py`

WARNING: The TensorFlow contrib module will not be included in TensorFlow 2.0. For more information, please see:

- [community/20180907-contrib-sunset.md at master · tensorflow/community · GitHub](https://github.com/tensorflow/community/blob/master/rfcs/20180907-contrib-sunset.md)
- [GitHub - tensorflow/addons: Useful extra functionality for TensorFlow 2.0 maintained by SIG-addons](https://github.com/tensorflow/addons) If you depend on functionality not listed there, please file an issue.

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/mohit/work/env/anaconda3/bin/rasa”, line 11, in load\_entry\_point(‘rasa’, ‘console\_scripts’, ‘rasa’)() File “/Users/mohit/work/research/Chatbot/Rasa/rasa/rasa/ **main**.py”, line 70, in main cmdline\_arguments.func(cmdline\_arguments) File “/Users/mohit/work/research/Chatbot/Rasa/rasa/rasa/cli/run.py”, line 70, in run rasa.run(\*\*vars(args)) File “/Users/mohit/work/research/Chatbot/Rasa/rasa/rasa/run.py”, line 40, in run model\_path = get\_model(model) File “/Users/mohit/work/research/Chatbot/Rasa/rasa/rasa/model.py”, line 59, in get\_model return unpack\_model(model\_path) File “/Users/mohit/work/research/Chatbot/Rasa/rasa/rasa/model.py”, line 144, in unpack\_model tar = tarfile.open(model\_file) File “/Users/mohit/work/env/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/tarfile.py”, line 1578, in open raise ReadError(“file could not be opened successfully”) tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully

The models do exist in the folder.

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**Author:** ![erohmensing](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/erohmensing/32/1789_2.png) [@erohmensing](https://forum.rasa.com/u/erohmensing)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/running-action-server-throws-error/11105/2 "2019-06-13T16:56:29Z")

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@agrawal-mohit the correct command for running the action server is `rasa run actions`. does that work for you?

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**Author:** ![agrawal-mohit](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/agrawal-mohit/32/2717_2.png) [@agrawal-mohit](https://forum.rasa.com/u/agrawal-mohit)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/running-action-server-throws-error/11105/3 "2019-07-16T08:13:31Z")

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Hi @erohmensing yes that works , thanks