Notify scripts gives boto3.exception

[jahagirdar]

wait_for_afi.py  --afi afi-<id> --notify --email <me>@<domain>.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/centos/src/project_data/aws-fpga/shared/bin/scripts/wait_for_afi.py", line 20, in <module>
    import boto3
  File "/home/centos/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from boto3.compat import _warn_deprecated_python
  File "/home/centos/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/compat.py", line 20, in <module>
    from boto3.exceptions import PythonDeprecationWarning
  File "/home/centos/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/boto3/exceptions.py", line 43
    f"The '{service_name}' resource does not an API version of: {bad_api_version}\n"
                                                                                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Similar issue was reported at aws-solutions/instance-scheduler-on-aws#305
The solution there was to upgrade to python3.
In aws-fpga scripts python2.7 is hardcoded in shebang.

[kyyalama2]

Dear customer,

Thank you so much for reporting the broken feature to AWS. We are currently looking into this and will update once we have a fix.

Thanks

[kyyalama2]

Dear customer, can you provide the details on which version of developer AMI are you using. Also if you installed boto3 yourself or if the developer AMI itself came with a version of boto3.

boto3 is deprecated with python2 and therefore only some older versions of boto3 work with python2 (which is the default python for aws-fpga developer kit currently). We therefore recommend to use a older version of boto3 on our developer AMI with aws-fpga developer kit which works successfully

You can install an older version of boto3 using
sudo pip install boto3==1.16

which supports python2 and one you have this setup, you should be able to run wait_for_afi successfully.

Please feel free to contact us if you need further help

Thanks

[kyyalama2]

Dear customer

Thank you so much for raising the issue. Also updated the wait_for_afi documentation to guide the customers on boto3 installation as mentioned above. Please feel free to re-open the issue if you need further help with this or still see a blocker issue with using wait_for_afi. Thank you so much for your interest in aws

[jahagirdar]

After downgrading boto3 the script now gives the following error
AWS FPGA: (14:28:13) - Calling notification script to send e-mail to ...@......com
ImportError: No module named site

[kyyalama2]

can you confirm the version of python you are using, with python --version. Thanks

[kyyalama2]

closing this thread due to inactivity. If you still need help with this issue, please comment to re-open the thread. Thanks