Error Message "Permission denied" Is Displayed When the tensorboard Command Is Used to Open a Log File in a Notebook Instance

Symptom

When the tensorboard --logdir ./ command is executed on the terminal of a notebook instance, the error message "[Errno 13] Permission denied..." is displayed.

Possible Causes

The current directory contains files on which you do not have permission.

Solution

Create a folder (for example, tb_logs), place the TensorBoard log file (for example, tb.events) in this folder, and run the tensorboard command. The following is an example command:

mkdir -p ./tb_logs
mv tb.events ./tb_logs
tensorboard --logdir ./tb_logs