# No output.npy in tfc\_end2end\_example

**URL:** <https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 29, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500 "2022-07-29T20:33:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![julienmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@julienmas](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/julienmas)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/1 "2022-07-29T20:33:08Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m working with PYNQ 2.7 on a ZCU104. I’m trying to run the tfc\_end2end\_example notebook from the FINN docker container. On cell 37

```auto
import numpy as np
from finn.core.onnx_exec import execute_onnx

input_dict = {iname: x.reshape(ishape)}
ret = execute_onnx(model, input_dict)

```

I encounter the following error:

```auto
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
FileNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-37-6dc8c038df07> in <module>
      3 
      4 input_dict = {iname: x.reshape(ishape)}
----> 5 ret = execute_onnx(model, input_dict)

/home/julien/finn/src/finn/core/onnx_exec.py in execute_onnx(model, input_dict, return_full_exec_context, start_node, end_node)
     99 elif model_exec_mode == "remote_pynq":
    100 # use remote exec metadata built into model to execute on a remote PYNQ
--> 101 remote_exec(model, execution_context)
    102 elif model_exec_mode == "rtlsim":
    103 # use stitched IP for rtlsim

/home/julien/finn/src/finn/core/remote_exec.py in remote_exec(model, execution_context)
    116 process_scp_out = subprocess.Popen(bash_command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    117 process_scp_out.communicate()
--> 118 outp = np.load("{}/output.npy".format(deployment_dir))
    119 execution_context[model.graph.output[0].name] = outp

/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/numpy/lib/npyio.py in load(file, mmap_mode, allow_pickle, fix_imports, encoding)
    388 own_fid = False
    389 else:
--> 390 fid = stack.enter_context(open(os_fspath(file), "rb"))
    391 own_fid = True
    392 

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_jremieh0/output.npy'

```

I have seen on another topic to try to execute driver.py via a ssh connexion ([output.npy not found in End-to-end-flow notebook · Issue #46 · Xilinx/finn · GitHub](https://github.com/Xilinx/finn/issues/46)). When I do so I have the following error:

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_isqt422a$ sudo python3 driver.py 
[sudo] password for xilinx: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "driver.py", line 34, in <module>
    from driver_base import FINNExampleOverlay
  File "/home/xilinx/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_isqt422a/driver_base.py", line 32, in <module>
    from pynq import Overlay, allocate
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pynq'

```

So I tried to install pynq (even tho it sounded weird):

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_isqt422a$ pip3 install pynq
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pynq in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (2.7.0)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pynq) (1.14.5)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pynq) (1.20.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pandas in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pynq) (1.3.3)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=24.2.0 in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from pynq) (44.0.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from cffi->pynq) (2.19)
Requirement already satisfied: pytz>=2017.3 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pandas->pynq) (2019.3)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.7.3 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from pandas->pynq) (2.7.3)
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.1; however, version 22.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/share/pynq-venv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

```

Does anyone know what could I do to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,  
Julien

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**Author:** ![julienmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@julienmas](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/julienmas)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/2 "2022-08-01T16:31:18Z")

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Hi,

After more research I found these Github issues but their solutions didn’t work for me :

- [execute\_onnx() in cnv\_end2end\_example throws error · Issue #282 · Xilinx/finn · GitHub](https://github.com/Xilinx/finn/issues/282)
- [execute\_onnx() in tfc\_end2end\_example throws error · Issue #275 · Xilinx/finn · GitHub](https://github.com/Xilinx/finn/issues/275)

bistring and setuptools are installed on my board:

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~$ pip3 install bitstring setuptools
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: bitstring in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (3.1.9)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (44.0.0)
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.1; however, version 22.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/share/pynq-venv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

```

I don’t know if pip3 has to be updated, I tried to update it, it threw this error:

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~$ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages (21.2.1)
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-22.2.1-py3-none-any.whl (2.0 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 2.0 MB 3.8 MB/s 
ERROR: Will not install to the user site because it will lack sys.path precedence to pip in /usr/local/share/pynq-venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.1; however, version 22.2.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/share/pynq-venv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

```

Also I noticed that the notebook tries to reach `/tmp/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_1g5ct2f0/output.npy`, but I can’t see this folder on my board, only `/home/xilinx/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_1g5ct2f0`, I don’t know if this is normal. Anyway, `output.npy` doesn’t exist there either:

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_1g5ct2f0$ ls
driver_base.py finn qonnx resizer.hwh validate.py
driver.py input.npy resizer.bit runtime_weights

```

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**Author:** ![marioruiz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.pynq.io/marioruiz/32/2177_2.png) [@marioruiz](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/marioruiz)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/3 "2022-08-02T19:14:03Z")

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Hi @julienmas,

Welcome to our community.

pynq is installed in a venv, which is not available in the xilinx user by default. I would recommend you login as sudo. To source the venv, please check this

> [@How to use Kria-PYNQ from the command line?](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/how-to-use-kria-pynq-from-the-command-line/3723/2):
>
> Hi there, This is probably because from v2.7 we are running inside a virtual environment. Instead of running python in sudo try: sudo -i source /etc/profile.d/pynq\_venv.sh python3 Thanks Shawn

Mario

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**Author:** ![julienmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@julienmas](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/julienmas)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/4 "2022-08-03T16:24:23Z")

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Hi Mario,

Thanks for your answer. When I log as root I can’t find `driver.py`:

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for xilinx: 
root@pynq:~# ls
root@pynq:~#

```

I used the the venv with the xilinx user, it didn’t help me either:

```auto
xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_599kb_zv$ source /etc/profile.d/pynq_venv.sh
(pynq-venv) xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_599kb_zv$ sudo python3 driver.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "driver.py", line 34, in <module>
    from driver_base import FINNExampleOverlay
  File "/home/xilinx/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_599kb_zv/driver_base.py", line 32, in <module>
    from pynq import Overlay, allocate
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pynq'
(pynq-venv) xilinx@pynq:~/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_599kb_zv$

```

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**Author:** ![marioruiz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.pynq.io/marioruiz/32/2177_2.png) [@marioruiz](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/marioruiz)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/5 "2022-08-03T16:43:50Z")

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Have you tried to run your script from a terminal inside JupyterLab?

> When I log as root I can’t find `driver.py`

You need to move to the directory where the file is.

Mario

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**Author:** ![julienmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@julienmas](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/julienmas)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/6 "2022-08-03T18:04:06Z")

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Thanks, I’ve been able to run `driver.py` from a terminal inside JupyterLab:

```auto
(pynq-venv) root@pynq:/home/xilinx/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_599kb_zv# python3 driver.py
(pynq-venv) root@pynq:/home/xilinx/finn_dev_julien/pynq_deployment_599kb_zv#

```

However, it didn’t solved my initial problem: I’m still unable to run `execute_onnx()` from the FINN Jupyter Notebook.

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**Author:** ![marioruiz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.pynq.io/marioruiz/32/2177_2.png) [@marioruiz](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/marioruiz)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2022, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/7 "2022-08-04T07:26:34Z")

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I would suggest you seek support in the FINN forums.

Mario

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**Author:** ![julienmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@julienmas](https://discuss.pynq.io/u/julienmas)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.pynq.io/t/no-output-npy-in-tfc-end2end-example/4500/8 "2022-08-05T20:24:02Z")

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It now works, using PYNQ 2.6. I’m not sure what I’ve done, but I think it started to worked after I did a `git pull` from FINN Github repo, on dev branch.
