[ERROR] Directory submodels does not exist

[maphew]

How did you install WebODM (docker, installer, etc.)?

Windows installer, v2.5.2

What's your browser and operating system? (Copy/paste the output of https://www.whatismybrowser.com/)

Edge 130 on Windows 10

What is the problem?

Processing ~2500 images fails to run after 6 hours (using fast-ortho, split:1250). Log file ends with "[ERROR] Directory submodels does not exist.". Running the command line immediately before this error manually from command prompt yields same message:

C:\>"C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\run" ^
More?   --feature-type hahog --fast-orthophoto --auto-boundary --orthophoto-resolution 2.0 --gltf --orthophoto-cutline ^
More?   --dem-euclidean-map --skip-3dmodel --skip-report --project-path ^
More?   "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\submodels" submodels
[INFO]    Fast orthophoto is turned on, automatically setting --skip-3dmodel
[INFO]    Initializing ODM 3.5.1 - Wed Oct 23 08:46:13  2024
[ERROR]   Directory submodels does not exist.
C:\>

Looking higher up in the WebODM logfile we see that the submodels do exist, but at a different path:

[INFO] C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels\submodel_0031\reconstruction.aligned.json is now C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels\submodel_0031\reconstruction.json

The folders are at 2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels not 2f644fd5679a\submodels of the command line.

Extended log tail:

[INFO]    C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels\submodel_0030\reconstruction.aligned.json is now C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels\submodel_0030\reconstruction.json
[INFO]    C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels\submodel_0031\reconstruction.aligned.json is now C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels\submodel_0031\reconstruction.json
[INFO]    ========================
[INFO]    Processing submodels
[INFO]    ========================
[INFO]    running "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\run" --feature-type hahog --fast-orthophoto --auto-boundary --orthophoto-resolution 2.0 --gltf --orthophoto-cutline --dem-euclidean-map --skip-3dmodel --skip-report --project-path "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\submodels" submodels
[INFO]    Fast orthophoto is turned on, automatically setting --skip-3dmodel
[INFO]    Initializing ODM 3.5.1 - Tue Oct 22 17:50:52  2024
[ERROR]   Directory submodels does not exist.

===== Dumping Info for Geeks (developers need this to fix bugs) =====
Child returned 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\stages\odm_app.py", line 82, in execute
self.first_stage.run()
File "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\opendm\types.py", line 471, in run
self.next_stage.run(outputs)
File "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\opendm\types.py", line 450, in run
self.process(self.args, outputs)
File "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\stages\splitmerge.py", line 192, in process
system.run(" ".join(map(double_quote, map(str, argv))), env_vars=os.environ.copy())
File "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\opendm\system.py", line 112, in run
raise SubprocessException("Child returned {}".format(retcode), retcode)
opendm.system.SubprocessException: Child returned 1

===== Done, human-readable information to follow... =====

[ERROR]   Uh oh! Processing stopped because of strange values in the reconstruction. This is often a sign that the input data has some issues or the software cannot deal with it. Have you followed best practices for data acquisition? See https://docs.opendronemap.org/flying/

Some more experimenting at the cmd prompt reveals that running with --project-path "C:\....\opensfm" submodels" (path simplified) gets a little farther but then complains there are no images. Eventually I realised this would need to be run for each of the submodels in turn, like so C:\...\opensfm\submodels" submodel_0000:

"C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\ODM\run" ^
  --feature-type hahog --fast-orthophoto --auto-boundary --orthophoto-resolution 2.0 --gltf --orthophoto-cutline ^
  --dem-euclidean-map --skip-3dmodel --skip-report --project-path ^
  "C:\WebODM\resources\app\apps\NodeODM\data\443f1988-6197-4247-b31f-2f644fd5679a\opensfm\submodels" submodel_0000

It took 6 hours to get to this point. Aside from repeating this command for each of the 31 submodel folders, what other commands can I run to manually to finish the job?

How can we reproduce this? (What steps trigger the problem? What parameters are you using for processing? Include screenshots. If you are having issues processing a dataset, you must include a copy of your dataset uploaded on Dropbox, Google Drive or https://dronedb.app)

Task settings:

Images: 2489 (from DJI Matrice 300, P1 camera, )

Format : JPEG File size : 20.6 MiB Format : JPEG Width : 8 192 pixels Height : 5 460 pixels Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:4:4 Bit depth : 8 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 20.6 MiB (100%) ColorSpace_ICC : RGB

Processing Node: node-odm-1 (manual) Options: auto-boundary: true, fast-orthophoto: true, feature-type: hahog, orthophoto-resolution: 2, split: 1250, rerun-from: odm_postprocess Disk Usage: 37.93 Gb

Free disk space: 300 GB Memory: 64 GB (used 16%)

A factor that might be involved: I first ran this job without split but it ran out of memory. For this run I edited the task, added split, and ran using Resume.

[github-actions[bot]]

Thanks for the report, but it looks like you didn't include a copy of your dataset for us to reproduce this issue? Please make sure to follow our issue guidelines :pray:

p.s. I'm just an automated script, not a human being.

[maphew]

why was this closed?

[jet86]

You didn't include a copy of your dataset as required by the issue guidelines, and as noted by the bot.

[maphew]

I didn’t think it made sense to upload a 38GB dataset (if there’s even a place that accepts that much) without doing some work to narrow down the problem first. At any rate, for future searchers there more info on this in the forum - https://community.opendronemap.org/t/error-directory-submodels-does-not-exist/

[smathermather]

Thanks for linking this back @maphew