Error in importation of linopy : MOSEK license not found

[robingirard]

Dear Linopy community, I have installed version 0.3.1. I'm happy that MOSEK is now a possible solver, but when I import linopy on a computer without mosek I have the following error :

In [7]: import linopy Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/rgirard/.virtualenvs/LEAP/lib/python3.10/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 3548, in run_code exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns) File "", line 1, in import linopy File "/home/rgirard/.virtualenvs/LEAP/lib/python3.10/site-packages/linopy/init.py", line 12, in from linopy import model, remote File "/home/rgirard/.virtualenvs/LEAP/lib/python3.10/site-packages/linopy/model.py", line 21, in from linopy import solvers File "/home/rgirard/.virtualenvs/LEAP/lib/python3.10/site-packages/linopy/solvers.py", line 61, in m.optimize() File "/home/rgirard/.virtualenvs/LEAP/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mosek/init.py", line 10781, in optimize return self.optimizetrm1(*args,**kwds) File "/home/rgirard/.virtualenvs/LEAP/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mosek/init.py", line 10770, in optimizetrm1 raise Error(rescode(_res_optimizetrm),_msg_optimizetrm) mosek.Error: rescode.err_missing_license_file(1008): License cannot be located. The default search path is ':/home/rgirard/mosek/mosek.lic:'.

It should be possible to import linopy without having a mosek license ! Am I missing something ?

[fneum]

You're totally right! No MOSEK license should be required.

@FabianHofmann something maybe going wrong with the new context manager?

https://github.com/PyPSA/linopy/blob/a97febee4ecf206d94e9acb15cea2b7efff7094a/linopy/solvers.py#L57-L66

[FabianHofmann]

mmh, it works for me for all combinations:

• package uninstalled, no license
• package installed, no license
• package installed, with license

are you on the latest master?

[robingirard]

I installed with pip.

[FabianHofmann]

okay, could you then update the linopy package via pip? I just released version 0.3.2

[robingirard]

It works now, thanks a lot.

[FabianHofmann]

great!

[asre244]

Hello @FabianHofmann

I am having a similar issue where I am not able to use the MOSEK solver although I do not get any error messages. I have installed the MOSEK package in the environment but it does not show up in the list of "available_solvers" in "linopy". I tried updating "linopy" as explained above but does not seem to change anything. Interestingly, I was able to use MOSEK a couple of days ago before the weekend but when I tried to use it again, it did not show up in the list of "available_solvers". I tried to work with gurobi to check if I was missing something but I was able to use gurobi.

Update:

with contextlib.suppress(ImportError):
    import mosek
    with contextlib.suppress(mosek.Error):
        with mosek.Env() as m:
            t = m.Task()
            t.optimize()
            m.checkinall()
        available_solvers.append("mosek")

When I was debugging, the code stopped at "t.optimize()" and did not reach checkinall and append.

And it seems like it is a licensing error:

raise Error(rescode(_res_optimizetrm),_msg_optimizetrm)
mosek.Error: rescode.err_license_cannot_connect(1021): MOSEK cannot connect to the license server.

But from what I understand, I should be able to use MOSEK without license. Am I right or am I missing something?

Update - Solution:

I was able to figure it out.

It seemed like the code was not able to access the license file.

I manually added this during debugging to point out the location:

os.environ["MOSEKLM_LICENSE_FILE"] = "pathtolicensefile"

and from next time on it was able to automatically locate the license file.

Please look into this issue if necessary.