# Error with metrics show -a **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [October 3, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236 "2019-10-03T07:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jmvanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jmvanham](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jmvanham)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/1 "2019-10-03T07:42:09Z")
I have been working on a small ML project for a week now. But when I tried to get all the metrics results of the different branches I created with the command “dvc metrics show -a” it showed an error message: “ERROR: unexpected error - ‘a8fc2b321054a00b995f235770ae077828ab3b5a’” This error message appeared the first time, two days ago, before that it worked perfectly fine. Also, it is still able to show the metrics of the current branch, when I don’t use “-a”. I already checked if the error code is a hash from git or dvc, but I couldn’t find a commit with the same code. I also tried going back to a commit where it used to be working before, but it still gives this error message and doesn’t show the metrics. I suspect that I might have changed something in one of the dvc files which I shouldn’t have changed. But I have no idea how I could find out what exactly is causing this error message. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to proceed? (I am using DVC version 0.61.1) ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/2 "2019-10-03T08:31:21Z")
Hi @jmvanham ! Could you please post full log of `dvc metrics show -a -v` ? ---
**Author:** ![jmvanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jmvanham](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jmvanham)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/3 "2019-10-03T16:59:19Z")
``` ERROR: unexpected error - 'a8fc2b321054a00b995f235770ae077828ab3b5a' ------------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/main.py", line 42, in main ret = cmd.run() File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/command/metrics.py", line 52, in run recursive=self.args.recursive, File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/metrics/ __init__.py", line 18, in show return show(self.repo, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/ __init__.py", line 33, in wrapper ret = f(repo, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/metrics/show.py", line 283, in show repo, target, recursive, typ, xpath, branch File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/metrics/show.py", line 174, in _collect_metrics outs = [out for stage in repo.stages for out in stage.outs] File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/funcy/objects.py", line 28, in __get__ res = instance. __dict__ [self.fget. __name__] = self.fget(instance) File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/ __init__.py", line 421, in stages return get_stages(self.graph) File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/funcy/objects.py", line 28, in __get__ res = instance. __dict__ [self.fget. __name__] = self.fget(instance) File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/ __init__.py", line 370, in graph return self._collect_graph() File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/ __init__.py", line 321, in _collect_graph stages = stages or self.collect_stages() File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/repo/ __init__.py", line 403, in collect_stages self.root_dir, dvcignore=self.dvcignore File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/scm/git/tree.py", line 150, in walk for x in self._walk(tree, topdown): File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/scm/git/tree.py", line 122, in _walk for i in _iter_tree(tree): File "/home/da-guest/mnist2/env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dvc/scm/git/tree.py", line 27, in _iter_tree node = submodules[node.hexsha] KeyError: 'a8fc2b321054a00b995f235770ae077828ab3b5a' ------------------------------------------------------------ ``` ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/4 "2019-10-03T18:37:38Z")
@jmvanham Thanks! Are you using git submodules in your repo, btw? ---
**Author:** ![jmvanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jmvanham](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jmvanham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/5 "2019-10-04T07:40:48Z")
I didn’t use git submodules in this example ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/6 "2019-10-04T07:56:05Z")
@jmvanham And how did you install dvc? From pip? If so, could you show `pip freeze | grep gitpython` please? ---
**Author:** ![jmvanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jmvanham](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jmvanham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/7 "2019-10-04T08:44:57Z")
> [@kupruser](#): > > pip freeze | grep gitpython This gives: GitPython==3.0.2 ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/8 "2019-10-04T09:01:52Z")
Thanks! Hm, I have the same one installed. And how about `pip freeze | grep gitdb`? ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/9 "2019-10-04T09:08:41Z")
One more question, maybe you’ve cloned this repo as a shallow clone? Or is there anything unusual about your repo instance or how you’ve cloned/created it? ---
**Author:** ![jmvanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jmvanham](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jmvanham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/10 "2019-10-04T09:22:52Z")
`pip freeze | grep gitdb` gives `gitdb2==2.0.6` I created this repository locally and didn’t move or push it ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/11 "2019-10-04T10:13:31Z")
@jmvanham Thanks! So the piece of code that is raising that exception is [https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/0.61.2/dvc/scm/git/tree.py#L27](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/0.61.2/dvc/scm/git/tree.py#L27) , which is a workaround for gitpython bug. Are you familiar with pdb? If so, could you attach and take a look at `tree.repo.submodules`? It seems like you do have submodules for some reason somewhere in repo. Maybe you’ve cloned something into your current repo? ---
**Author:** ![jmvanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jmvanham](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/jmvanham)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/12 "2019-10-04T10:58:35Z")
@kupruser, you were right about the submodule. I cloned a directory in my directory last, but I didn’t track it with git. So I didn’t recognize it as a submodule. I just removed this directory, and now it is working again! Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![kupruser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@kupruser](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/kupruser)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/error-with-metrics-show-a/236/13 "2019-10-05T15:04:42Z")
Good news! But still, it seems like we should be able to work with that. Could you please create an issue for that in [https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues) ? We will investigate. 🙂