GSP1200 lab is not working

[sakshi_25]

Hello  everyone , anyone is facing issue in Arcade level 3 (Level up your GenAI skills) lab no. GSP1200 Generative AI for Video Analytics with Vertex AI?

I am facing issue regarding the green tick. After completing all the task it showing that please complete the task or if you completed your task then wait. I wait for more than 30 minutes then also it is not showing the green tick. 

Kindly help me. 

[Suryansh_Rai]

same here bro!!

[janusz_szpilews]

I had the same problem yesterday. When looking at the output of some commands, you may spot errors like:

"TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0.
If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:
1. Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
2. Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower)."

It means that the protocol buffers library was upgraded recently to version 4.* It is not compatible with the used VertexAI library. Probably it will be fixed soon. As a workaround, you may modify the first command line by adding at the top:

!pip install "protobuf==3.20.*"

and append to the existing "!pip install"  the parameter: protobuf==3.20.*

It worked for me, but this is a hack, so let us hope the Qwiklabs team will fix it soon.

[Suryansh_Rai]

Thanks Bro!! It worked... 🙂

[salmankhanpm]

Yes Sir!

please add a new 

!pip install protobuf==3.19.3

in the installation cell below the pip  install google* 

[mykolap]

Now labs affected by that issue are marked as not required