# Hail Init Error in GCP **URL:** \ **Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\ **Created:** [January 20, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/hail-init-error-in-gcp/3073 "2023-01-20T20:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hpatel96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8dc957/32.png) [@hpatel96](https://discuss.hail.is/u/hpatel96)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/hail-init-error-in-gcp/3073/1 "2023-01-20T20:23:00Z")
I am running a Google Cloud Run service that spins up a Docker container that uses the following Hail image: “hailgenetics/hail:0.2.98”. When I try to call the init method after importing Hail, I get the following error: "2023-01-20 20:22:07 WARN Utils:69 - Your hostname, localhost resolves to a loopback address: 127.0.0.1; using 192.168.1.1 instead (on interface eth0) 2023-01-20 20:22:07 WARN Utils:69 - Set SPARK\_LOCAL\_IP if you need to bind to another address 2023-01-20 20:22:08 WARN NativeCodeLoader:60 - Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform… using builtin-java classes where applicable Setting default log level to “WARN”. To adjust logging level use sc.setLogLevel(newLevel). For SparkR, use setLogLevel(newLevel). 2023-01-20 20:22:11 WARN MacAddressUtil:142 - Failed to find a usable hardware address from the network interfaces; using random bytes: 37:16:a4:d1:7a:ad:f9:4a * * * KeyboardInterrupt Traceback (most recent call last) /tmp/ipykernel\_18/3976191949.py in 7 from pprint import pprint 8 hl.plot.output\_notebook() ----\> 9 hl.init(quiet=True) in init(sc, app\_name, master, local, log, quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmp\_dir, default\_reference, idempotent, global\_seed, spark\_conf, skip\_logging\_configuration, local\_tmpdir, \_optimizer\_iterations, backend, driver\_cores, driver\_memory, worker\_cores, worker\_memory) /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/hail/typecheck/check.py in wrapper(\_\_original\_func, \*args, \*\*kwargs) 575 def wrapper(_original\_func, \*args, \*\*kwargs): 576 args, kwargs_ = check\_all(\_\_original\_func, args, kwargs, checkers, is\_method=is\_method) → 577 return _original\_func(\*args, \*\*kwargs_) 578 579 return wrapper /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/hail/context.py in init(sc, app\_name, master, local, log, quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmp\_dir, default\_reference, idempotent, global\_seed, spark\_conf, skip\_logging\_configuration, local\_tmpdir, \_optimizer\_iterations, backend, driver\_cores, driver\_memory, worker\_cores, worker\_memory) 342 default\_reference=default\_reference, 343 global\_seed=global\_seed, → 344 skip\_logging\_configuration=skip\_logging\_configuration 345 ) 346 if backend == ‘local’: in init\_spark(sc, app\_name, master, local, log, quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmp\_dir, default\_reference, idempotent, global\_seed, spark\_conf, skip\_logging\_configuration, local\_tmpdir, \_optimizer\_iterations) /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/hail/typecheck/check.py in wrapper(\_\_original\_func, \*args, \*\*kwargs) 575 def wrapper(_original\_func, \*args, \*\*kwargs): 576 args, kwargs_ = check\_all(\_\_original\_func, args, kwargs, checkers, is\_method=is\_method) → 577 return _original\_func(\*args, \*\*kwargs_) 578 579 return wrapper /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/hail/context.py in init\_spark(sc, app\_name, master, local, log, quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmp\_dir, default\_reference, idempotent, global\_seed, spark\_conf, skip\_logging\_configuration, local\_tmpdir, \_optimizer\_iterations) 402 idempotent, sc, spark\_conf, app\_name, master, local, log, 403 quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmpdir, local\_tmpdir, → 404 skip\_logging\_configuration, optimizer\_iterations) 405 if not backend.fs.exists(tmpdir): 406 backend.fs.mkdir(tmpdir) /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/hail/backend/spark\_backend.py in **init** (self, idempotent, sc, spark\_conf, app\_name, master, local, log, quiet, append, min\_block\_size, branching\_factor, tmpdir, local\_tmpdir, skip\_logging\_configuration, optimizer\_iterations) 182 jsc, app\_name, master, local, True, min\_block\_size, tmpdir, local\_tmpdir) 183 self.\_jhc = hail\_package.HailContext.apply( → 184 self.\_jbackend, log, True, append, branching\_factor, skip\_logging\_configuration, optimizer\_iterations) 185 186 self.\_jsc = self.\_jbackend.sc() /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/py4j/java\_gateway.py in **call** (self, \*args) 1301 proto.END\_COMMAND\_PART 1302 → 1303 answer = self.gateway\_client.send\_command(command) 1304 return\_value = get\_return\_value( 1305 answer, self.gateway\_client, self.target\_id, self.name) /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/py4j/java\_gateway.py in send\_command(self, command, retry, binary) 1031 connection = self.\_get\_connection() 1032 try: → 1033 response = connection.send\_command(command) 1034 if binary: 1035 return response, self.\_create\_connection\_guard(connection) /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/py4j/java\_gateway.py in send\_command(self, command) 1198 1199 try: → 1200 answer = smart\_decode(self.stream.readline()[:-1]) 1201 logger.debug(“Answer received: {0}”.format(answer)) 1202 if answer.startswith(proto.RETURN\_MESSAGE): /usr/lib/python3.7/socket.py in readinto(self, b) 587 while True: 588 try: → 589 return self.\_sock.recv\_into(b) 590 except timeout: 591 self.\_timeout\_occurred = True KeyboardInterrupt: " Is this a problem with Hail or how I set up the image that is being spun up?