GitHub issue #532: File exists error when used with TPU
State: open | Created: 2020-08-25T14:36:38Z

Hi,

I'm getting a "File exists" error when I use [text dataset](https://github.com/huggingface/nlp/tree/master/datasets/text) for pre-training a RoBERTa model using `transformers` (3.0.2) and `nlp`(0.4.0) on a VM with TPU (v3-8).

I modified [line 131 in the original `run_language_modeling.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/language-modeling/run_language_modeling.py#L131) as follows:

```python
# line 131: return LineByLineTextDataset(tokenizer=tokenizer, file_path=file_path, block_size=args.block_size)
dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
dataset = dataset.map(lambda ex: tokenizer(ex["text"], add_special_tokens=True,
                                        truncation=True, max_length=args.block_size), batched=True)
dataset.set_format(type='torch', columns=['input_ids'])
return dataset
```

When I run this with [`xla_spawn.py`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/xla_spawn.py), I get the following error (it produces one message per core in TPU, which I believe is fine).

It seems the current version doesn't take into account distributed training processes as in [this example](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/a573777901e662ec2e565be312ffaeedef6effec/src/transformers/data/datasets/language_modeling.py#L35-L38)?

```
08/25/2020 13:59:41 - WARNING - nlp.builder -   Using custom data configuration default
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
08/25/2020 13:59:43 - INFO - nlp.builder -   Generating dataset text (/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d)
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Exception in device=TPU:6: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Exception in device=TPU:4: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Exception in device=TPU:1: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Exception in device=TPU:7: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Exception in device=TPU:3: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Downloading and preparing dataset text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283 (download: Unknown size, generated: Unknown size, post-processed: Unknown size, total: Unknown size) to /home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/
447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d...
Exception in device=TPU:2: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Exception in device=TPU:0: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
    main()
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
    main()
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
    main()
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 422, in incomplete_dir
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
      main()
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 422, in incomplete_dir
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 422, in incomplete_dir
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
    main()
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 422, in incomplete_dir
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
      File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 422, in incomplete_dir
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
Traceback (most recent call last):
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
    main()
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch_xla/distributed/xla_multiprocessing.py", line 231, in _start_fn
    fn(gindex, *args)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 300, in _mp_fn
    main()
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 240, in main
    train_dataset = get_dataset(data_args, tokenizer=tokenizer) if training_args.do_train else None
  File "/home/*****/huggingface_roberta/run_language_modeling.py", line 134, in get_dataset
    dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files=file_path, split="train")
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/load.py", line 546, in load_dataset
    download_config=download_config, download_mode=download_mode, ignore_verifications=ignore_verifications,
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 450, in download_and_prepare
    with incomplete_dir(self._cache_dir) as tmp_data_dir:
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/nlp/builder.py", line 422, in incomplete_dir
    os.makedirs(tmp_dir)
  File "/anaconda3/envs/torch-xla-1.6/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/*****/.cache/huggingface/datasets/text/default-b0932b2bdbb63283/0.0.0/447f2bcfa2a721a37bc8fdf23800eade1523cf07f7eada6fe661fe4d070d380d.incomplete'
```