Tensorboard logger error: lightning_logs directory not exists in multi-node DDP on nodes with rank != 0
🐛 Bug
In multi-node DDP train mode on all nodes except rank 0 errors appears at the start of the training caused by accessing lightning_logs directory in tensorboard logger which is not exist at the moment.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

setup multi-node cluster (without SLURM)
set environment variables on each node:

export MASTER_ADDR=<rank 0 node IP>
export MASTER_PORT=23456
export RANK=<node id>
export SLURM_NODEID=<node id>
export WORLD_SIZE=<world-size>


install dependencies:

pip install torch torchvision hydra-core pytorch-lightning


copy app.y and conf.yaml to each node
run script on each node

python app.py


see the error:

Exception:

-- Process 0 terminated with the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/nightly_pt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/multiprocessing/spawn.py", line 19, in _wrap
    fn(i, *args)
  File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/nightly_pt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/trainer/distrib_data_parallel.py", line 342, in ddp_train
    self.run_pretrain_routine(model)
  File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/nightly_pt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py", line 777, in run_pretrain_routine
    self.configure_checkpoint_callback()
  File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/nightly_pt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/trainer/callback_config.py", line 45, in configure_checkpoint_callback
    f'version_{self.logger.version}',
  File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/nightly_pt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/loggers/tensorboard.py", line 161, in version
    self._version = self._get_next_version()
  File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/nightly_pt/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_lightning/loggers/tensorboard.py", line 167, in _get_next_version
    for d in os.listdir(root_dir):
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/ubuntu/pytorch-lightning-intro-guide/outputs/2020-04-04/15-53-26/lightning_logs'

Code sample
app.py:
import pathlib

import hydra
import pytorch_lightning as pl
import torch
from omegaconf import OmegaConf
from torch.nn import functional as F
from torch.optim import Adam
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, random_split
from torchvision import datasets, transforms


class LitMNIST(pl.LightningModule):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.layer_1 = torch.nn.Linear(28 * 28, 128)
        self.layer_2 = torch.nn.Linear(128, 256)
        self.layer_3 = torch.nn.Linear(256, 10)

        self.train_dataset = None
        self.val_dataset = None
        self.test_dataset = None

    def forward(self, x):
        batch_size, channels, width, height = x.size()
        x = x.view(batch_size, -1)
        x = self.layer_1(x)
        x = F.relu(x)
        x = self.layer_2(x)
        x = F.relu(x)
        x = self.layer_3(x)
        x = F.log_softmax(x, dim=1)
        return x

    def prepare_data(self):
        # transform
        transform = transforms.Compose(
            [transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,))])

        # download
        data_dir = pathlib.Path.home() / 'data'
        mnist_train = datasets.MNIST(data_dir, train=True,
                                     download=True, transform=transform)
        mnist_test = datasets.MNIST(data_dir, train=False,
                                    download=True, transform=transform)

        # train/val split
        mnist_train, mnist_val = random_split(mnist_train, [55000, 5000])

        # assign to use in dataloaders
        self.train_dataset = mnist_train
        self.val_dataset = mnist_val
        self.test_dataset = mnist_test

    def train_dataloader(self):
        return DataLoader(self.train_dataset, batch_size=64)

    def val_dataloader(self):
        return DataLoader(self.val_dataset, batch_size=64)

    def test_dataloader(self):
        return DataLoader(self.test_dataset, batch_size=64)

    def configure_optimizers(self):
        return Adam(self.parameters(), lr=1e-3)

    def training_step(self, batch, batch_idx):
        x, y = batch
        logits = self(x)
        loss = F.nll_loss(logits, y)

        # add logging
        logs = {'loss': loss}
        return {'loss': loss, 'log': logs}

    def validation_step(self, batch, batch_idx):
        x, y = batch
        logits = self(x)
        loss = F.nll_loss(logits, y)
        return {'val_loss': loss}

    def validation_epoch_end(self, outputs):
        avg_loss = torch.stack(  # pylint: disable=no-member
            [x['val_loss'] for x in outputs]).mean()
        tensorboard_logs = {'val_loss': avg_loss}
        return {'avg_val_loss': avg_loss, 'log': tensorboard_logs}

    def test_step(self, batch, batch_idx):
        x, y = batch
        logits = self(x)
        loss = F.nll_loss(logits, y)
        return {'val_loss': loss}

    def test_epoch_end(self, outputs):
        avg_loss = torch.stack(  # pylint: disable=no-member
            [x['val_loss'] for x in outputs]).mean()
        tensorboard_logs = {'val_loss': avg_loss}
        return {'avg_val_loss': avg_loss, 'log': tensorboard_logs}

    def init_ddp_connection(self, proc_rank: int, world_size: int) -> None:
        torch.distributed.init_process_group(
            'nccl', rank=proc_rank, world_size=world_size)


@hydra.main(config_path='conf.yaml')
def main(conf: OmegaConf):
    model = LitMNIST()

    trainer = pl.Trainer(gpus=conf.gpus,
                         num_nodes=conf.num_nodes,
                         distributed_backend=conf.distributed_backend,
                         max_epochs=3)
    trainer.fit(model)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()  # pylint: disable=no-value-for-parameter

conf.yaml:
gpus: 1
num_nodes: 2
distributed_backend: ddp

Expected behavior
Train should go without error
Environment
cuda:
	GPU:
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
		Tesla K80
	available:           True
	version:             10.1
packages:
	numpy:               1.18.1
	pyTorch_debug:       False
	pyTorch_version:     1.4.0
	pytorch-lightning:   0.7.1
	tensorboard:         2.2.0
	tqdm:                4.45.0
system:
	OS:                  Linux
	architecture:
		64bit

	processor:           x86_64
	python:              3.6.10
	version:             #113-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 29 14:54:54 UTC 2020

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