Add rapids-doctor basic health checks by ncclementi · Pull Request #21928 · NVIDIA/cudf

ncclementi · 2026-03-25T14:53:55Z

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Adding some basic health checks to be discovered by rapids-doctor when this is installed.

Notes:

I want some feedback on weather the functional_numba_check is the right approach to test this, or if we should modify it. This was added based on my experience in certain scenarios I encountered, but this might not happen any more. Feedback welcome.
I tested the usage and discoverability of the checks locally.
We can start with this checks, and continue with more as needed.

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bdice · 2026-03-25T15:10:46Z

+        )
+
+    got_a = res["a"].to_pandas().tolist()
+    expected_a = [1, 2]


Do we guarantee group ordering in cudf to be sorted and/or stable? Might want to check how other cudf tests are handling this.

Good catch, I'll make sure to modify this. I forgot that Dataframe.equals existed. I'll update this

bdice · 2026-03-25T15:13:16Z

+    try:
+        out = s.apply(lambda x: len(x))
+    except OSError as e:
+        if _is_libnvvm_missing_error(e):


Do you know how users get into this scenario? Is there a specific common mistake during installation?

Yes, this usually happens when you are missing the cuda runtime. One common scenario is get a docker container like

docker run --gpus all -it nvidia/cuda:12.8.0-runtime-ubuntu24.04

and then in this scenario, at least in the past (this is an older snippet I have saved), this had an issue:

# Then, in the container... apt update && apt install python3 python3-pip pip install --break-system-packages cudf-cu12 python3 # Then, this will work >>> import cudf >>> cudf.Series([1, 2, 3]) ### but this not cudf.Series([1, 2, 3]).apply(lambda x: len(x))

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/numba_cuda/numba/cuda/cudadrv/nvvm.py", line 139, in __new__ inst.driver = open_cudalib('nvvm') ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/numba_cuda/numba/cuda/cudadrv/libs.py", line 84, in open_cudalib return ctypes.CDLL(path) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/ctypes/__init__.py", line 379, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OSError: libnvvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm not sure not sure if this will happen from now on, given cupy 14 and the pip wheels bringing all the ctk.

bdice · 2026-03-25T15:15:07Z

+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+"""cuDF health checks for rapids doctor."""


This should probably link to https://github.com/rapidsai/rapids-cli. I had to dig for a while to find that repo, couldn't find it by searching "rapids doctor."

ncclementi · 2026-03-30T22:13:51Z

I updated the the code according to the review and answer the question regarding _is_libnvvm_missing_error. I'm noticing a few errors in CI, I rebase against main a few times but I still see failures but they seem unrelated to this PR.

TomAugspurger

A couple questions / comments about testing here:

It'd be good to ensure that at least the happy path is tested. Presumably rapids-cli will have some tests ensuring that things work from the CLI as expected. IMO, cudf should verify that at least the happy path is tested (by calling functional_check() and just making sure there's no exception).
And for the not happy paths... these seem hard to test. Do we try to jump through hoops with mocks and stuff to trigger the errors? IMO it's not worth it.

TomAugspurger · 2026-04-20T15:06:48Z

Question for the cudf devs: do we want this to be public?

And for the rapids-cli devs: does this need to be public to be usable from rapids-cli? I guess it will show up in the entrypoints, so maybe public is for the best.

I would prefer for this not to be exposed publicly in the cudf namespace. We try to keep that tidy and aligned with pandas to some extent.

IIUC we need this to be public for the entry point to pick it up, but maybe I'm missing something. @jacobtomlinson Would you mind chiming in here?

I think it can be private. It just needs to be referenced in the pyproject.toml correctly. It's not like anything in Python is actually truly private so I would expect entrypoints like cudf._health_checks.foo would still work.

TomAugspurger · 2026-04-20T15:15:09Z

+    if not got.equals(expected):
+        raise AssertionError(
+            "cuDF groupby/agg result does not match pandas after aligning order:\n"
+            f"cuDF (as pandas):\n{got}\n\npandas:\n{expected}"


The other errors have additional guidance with an action the user can take (e.g. "follow the install guide"). Do we have any additional guidance here? Ask them to open an issue on github?

That's a good point, we can point them to open an issue on github.

One thing I want to try and enforce is that every error message has some kind of actionable advice. Even if that is just a link to a troubleshooting guide. I don't think linking to opening an issue is a good idea. If we know enough about the problem to catch it in a check then we should be able to write something in the docs about resolving it and link to that.

bdice

This seems fine, though @TomAugspurger raised a good point that we probably don't want this to be a public submodule.

bdice · 2026-04-20T16:37:06Z

I would prefer for this not to be exposed publicly in the cudf namespace. We try to keep that tidy and aligned with pandas to some extent.

bdice · 2026-04-20T16:39:48Z

Also please verify that the health checks run in our own cuDF CI jobs. I don't want the library to ship with failing health checks due to code changes.

ncclementi · 2026-04-20T17:31:47Z

It'd be good to ensure that at least the happy path is tested. Presumably rapids-cli will have some tests ensuring that things work from the CLI as expected. IMO, cudf should verify that at least the happy path is tested (by calling functional_check() and just making sure there's no exception).

And for the not happy paths... these seem hard to test. Do we try to jump through hoops with mocks and stuff to trigger the errors? IMO it's not worth it.

To answer some of the questions, we have some cli test that ensure discoverability in general. BUt we don't have specific ones for cudf.

When cuml added checks, they implemented some form of discoverability tests themselves because they also added a separate health check system besides rapids-doctor, see https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/pull/7854/changes#diff-f6c8b0321c6954f50907077aaf0ebbf56d4ca0d4a1476070c5c44731cda42858. But when I chatted with @jacobtomlinson about this, he mentioned these were no necessary, but I'll let him chime in here.

Also please verify that the health checks run in our own cuDF CI jobs. I don't want the library to ship with failing health checks due to code changes.

@bdice I'm not sure I follow. Do you want us to add a job in CI or add it as part of an existing one, and had rapids-cli as a dependency and run this?

I was following the process that cuml had, and they are not running this in CI, but maybe we should all discuss how do we want these checks to be added.

@jacobtomlinson maybe you want to chime in here to add more context, since you discuss this at some point with the teams

bdice · 2026-04-20T19:22:03Z

Do you want us to add a job in CI or add it as part of an existing one, and had rapids-cli as a dependency and run this?

Either way. Just something that ensures that the code added in this PR is executed, and that health checks pass in a known-good environment.

jacobtomlinson · 2026-04-21T09:06:32Z

We should definitely test the happy path in CI. Mostly just to ensure the checks are actually importable/callable. I think it is ok not to test the unhappy paths, unless it looks easy to do. Cramming in a load of mocks to reproduce some edge case environment error reduces maintainability in a way that would outweigh the benefits of doing this. To parrot what @mmccarty was recommending, we should use dependency injection where possible when writing checks because it makes it way easier to test unhappy paths without using mocks.

Also please verify that the health checks run in our own cuDF CI jobs. I don't want the library to ship with failing health checks due to code changes.

The simplest way is to just add some pytest tests for the checks that get run as part of the normal test suite. The two main things you want to test are whether the checks are registered as entrypoints, conform to the expected signature and that it returns cleanly on the happy path. https://github.com/rapidsai/rapids-cli#check-plugins

We could include some type information in rapids-cli and check the signature that way, or add some testing helpers that could be reused across many libraries. But that would make rapids-cli a test time dependency of cudf. I think that's fine, but @bdice do you have any thoughts on that?

It would also be nice to run a simple end to end test like calling rapids doctor cudf --verbose in CI and then assert that it exits cleanly and that all the entrypoints listed in pyproject.toml are present in the output.

[cuml] also added a separate health check system besides rapids-doctor

I strongly want to discourage this and wish I could've talked them out of doing this. If every library implements their own CLI machinery for calling the checks it undermines the user story of rapids doctor being the consistent place you go to debug your environment. I especially want to encourage that projects include "Paste the output of pip install rapids-cli && rapids doctor" in their issue template, and not something like "Paste the output of python -m cudf.run_doctor_checks". I understand the desire to keep debug dependencies to a minimum, but I think the consistency across the libraries outweighs that. The rapids-cli package is designed to be light.

bdice · 2026-04-21T13:26:41Z

But that would make rapids-cli a test time dependency of cudf. I think that's fine, but @bdice do you have any thoughts on that?

As long as we avoid circular dependencies and rapids-cli folks help maintain these health checks if they break for non-cudf reasons, that's fine.

ncclementi · 2026-08-31T14:42:28Z

I'm seeing a failure in the conda-python-cudf-tests / 12.2.2, 3.11, amd64, rockylinux8, l4, earliest-driver, oldest-deps case, I just modify the code to have a bit more information, but it seems something very weird is happening because

I get this, which seems a segfault, although the checks passed.

  File "/__w/cudf/cudf/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_health_checks.py", line 39, in test_rapids_doctor_runs_required_and_cudf_health_checks
    assert result.returncode == 0, output
AssertionError: 🧑‍⚕️ Performing REQUIRED health check for RAPIDS 
  Running checks
  All checks passed!
  
  
assert -11 == 0
 +  where -11 = CompletedProcess(args=['rapids', 'doctor'], returncode=-11, stdout='🧑\u200d⚕️ Performing REQUIRED health check for RAPIDS \nRunning checks\nAll checks passed!\n', stderr='').returncode

Waiting for the current run to finish to see if I can get more info on why this is failing. That being said I'd need a bit of help here since this seems to only be failing on oldest dependencies path.

cc: @bdice

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ncclementi · 2026-08-31T16:23:03Z

So I'm not sure what's happening, it seems that some how the checks passed but it seems like I'm hitting a segfault (that -11 I believe means segfault here) when comparing the return codes. It only happens for the case of old dependecies, see https://github.com/NVIDIA/cudf/actions/runs/33404951587/job/99539765205?pr=21928#step:12:3585

Any idea what could be happening here?

cc: @bdice for when you can take a look.

bdice · 2026-09-01T03:36:15Z

@ncclementi This is a bug in cuda.core teardown. I filed NVIDIA/cuda-python#2743. However, the easiest fix is to bump our lower bounds on cuda-bindings from >=12.9.2 to >=12.9.3 for CUDA 12, and >=13.0.1 to >=13.0.2 for CUDA 13. I pushed that in 166e8f7.

ncclementi · 2026-09-01T22:26:41Z

Just checking, is there anything outstanding here, or can this be merged? I don't think I have merge powers here so I'd need someone to do it.
cc: @bdice @vyasr

vyasr · 2026-09-08T21:46:05Z

/merge

Adding some basic health checks to be discovered by rapids-doctor when this is installed. Notes: - I want some feedback on weather the `functional_numba_check` is the right approach to test this, or if we should modify it. This was added based on my experience in certain scenarios I encountered, but this might not happen any more. Feedback welcome. - I tested the usage and discoverability of the checks locally. - We can start with this checks, and continue with more as needed. Authors: - Naty Clementi (https://github.com/ncclementi) - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice) Approvers: - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice) URL: NVIDIA#21928

…5666) NVIDIA/cudf#21928 bumped `cudf`'s `cuda-bindings` floors, and as a result CI is breaking on `main` here for "oldest-deps" jobs ```text error libmamba Could not solve for environment specs The following packages are incompatible ├─ cuda-bindings ==12.9.2 * is requested and can be installed; └─ cugraph =26.12,>=0.0.0a0 * is not installable because there are no viable options ├─ cugraph 26.12.00a15 would require │ └─ pylibcudf =26.12 * but there are no viable options │ ├─ pylibcudf [26.12.00a0|26.12.00a10|...|26.12.00a9] would require │ │ └─ cuda-bindings >=12.9.3,<13.0 *, which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported; │ └─ pylibcudf [26.12.00a0|26.12.00a10|...|26.12.00a9] would require │ └─ cuda-bindings >=13.0.2,<14.0 *, which conflicts with any installable versions previously reported; └─ cugraph [26.12.00a0|26.12.00a11|26.12.00a4|26.12.00a9] conflicts with any installable versions previously reported. critical libmamba Could not solve for environment specs ``` ([build link](https://github.com/rapidsai/cugraph/actions/runs/34551642334/job/103120899608?pr=5662)) This fixes that by bumping `cugraph`'s floors to match. Authors: - James Lamb (https://github.com/jameslamb) Approvers: - Bradley Dice (https://github.com/bdice) URL: #5666

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[BUG]: Primary-context TLS destructor segfaults after Python finalization NVIDIA/cuda-python#2743

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