# Trainer.train stalls when using tutorial example on GCP instance

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/trainer-train-stalls-when-using-tutorial-example-on-gcp-instance/29132>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [January 7, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/trainer-train-stalls-when-using-tutorial-example-on-gcp-instance/29132 "2023-01-07T19:44:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![stormrye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@stormrye](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/stormrye)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/trainer-train-stalls-when-using-tutorial-example-on-gcp-instance/29132/1 "2023-01-07T19:44:32Z")

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Hi,  
I have used HF for quite some time, tried using the Trainer interface following the example at [Fine-tune a pretrained model](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/training)  
It runs fine on Google Colab, however when I try to run it on a Google Cloud instance it stalls at the very beginning after printing:

```auto
*****Running training*****
  Num examples = 1000
  Num Epochs = 3
  Instantaneous batch size per device = 8
  Total train batch size (w. parallel, distributed & accumulation) = 8
  Gradient Accumulation steps = 1
  Total optimization steps = 375
  Number of trainable parameters = 108314117

```

No error, nothing happens.

Steps to reproduce:

- Create a compute instance on Google Cloud Platform (e.g. with V100 GPU) with PyTorch 1.13 image
- pip install transformers datasets evaluate
- Try to run this script [example.py - JustPaste.it](https://justpaste.it/bb99f) (example code from the tutorial)

Maybe someone has an idea what’s wrong?

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**Author:** ![underM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bcef8e/32.png) [@underM](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/underM)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/trainer-train-stalls-when-using-tutorial-example-on-gcp-instance/29132/2 "2023-02-09T15:53:32Z")

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I also encountered the same problem.  
Did you resolve this issue?

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**Author:** ![underM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bcef8e/32.png) [@underM](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/underM)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/trainer-train-stalls-when-using-tutorial-example-on-gcp-instance/29132/3 "2023-02-15T07:25:34Z")

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@stormrye  
I solved this issue.  
please uninstall `torch_xla`

```auto
pip uninstall torch_xla
pip3 uninstall torch_xla

```