# Vector Search course (On Demand) - lesson 2 lab seems not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Training\ **Tags:** docker\ **Created:** [July 18, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vector-search-course-on-demand-lesson-2-lab-seems-not-working/380264 "2025-07-18T16:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dfarolfi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/47e85d/32.png) [@dfarolfi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dfarolfi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vector-search-course-on-demand-lesson-2-lab-seems-not-working/380264/1 "2025-07-18T16:33:00Z")
Course: Vector Search Course (On demand) Version: Question: I am following Vector Search course, Lesson 2 lab breaks on this instruction ```auto docker run -it --rm --network host \ docker.elastic.co/eland/eland:8.9.0 eland_import_hub_model \ --url https://localhost:9200 -u training -p nonprodpwd \ --hub-model-id sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3 \ --task-type text_embedding --insecure ``` Error is ```auto INFO : Establishing connection to Elasticsearch /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/elasticsearch/_sync/client/ __init__.py:397: SecurityWarning: Connecting to 'https://localhost:9200' using TLS with verify_certs=False is insecure _transport = transport_class( /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:1056: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host 'localhost'. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1.26.x/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings warnings.warn( 2025-07-18 16:16:03,919 INFO : Connected to cluster named 'cluster1' (version: 8.16.0) 2025-07-18 16:16:03,921 INFO : Loading HuggingFace transformer tokenizer and model 'sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/configuration_utils.py", line 594, in _get_config_dict resolved_config_file = cached_path( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/file_utils.py", line 1921, in cached_path output_path = get_from_cache( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/file_utils.py", line 2131, in get_from_cache raise OSError( OSError: Distant resource does not have an ETag, we won't be able to reliably ensure reproducibility. During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/eland_import_hub_model", line 8, in sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/eland/cli/eland_import_hub_model.py", line 235, in main tm = TransformerModel( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/eland/ml/pytorch/transformers.py", line 617, in __init__ self._tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/models/auto/tokenization_auto.py", line 484, in from_pretrained config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/models/auto/configuration_auto.py", line 637, in from_pretrained config_dict, _ = PretrainedConfig.get_config_dict(pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/configuration_utils.py", line 546, in get_config_dict config_dict, kwargs = cls._get_config_dict(pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/transformers/configuration_utils.py", line 630, in _get_config_dict raise EnvironmentError( OSError: Can't load config for 'sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3'. If you were trying to load it from 'https://huggingface.co/models', make sure you don't have a local directory with the same name. Otherwise, make sure 'sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3' is the correct path to a directory containing a config.json file ``` How to fix ? Any alternative way to proceed with the uploading of the designed model to Elastic ? ---
**Author:** ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vector-search-course-on-demand-lesson-2-lab-seems-not-working/380264/2 "2025-07-19T02:10:12Z")
Hello @dfarolfi You need to run below ``` docker run -it --rm --network host \ docker.elastic.co/eland/eland:8.9.0 eland_import_hub_model \ --url https://localhost:9200 -u elastic -p nonprodpwd \ --hub-model-id sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L12-v3 \ --task-type text_embedding --insecure ``` msmarco-MiniLM-L-12-v3 =\> msmarco-MiniLM-L12-v3 Same issue as [ESRE Engineer Course Labs 5.1 - #2 by TimBosman](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/esre-engineer-course-labs-5-1/379031/2) Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![dfarolfi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/47e85d/32.png) [@dfarolfi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dfarolfi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vector-search-course-on-demand-lesson-2-lab-seems-not-working/380264/3 "2025-07-19T16:40:38Z")
Thank you for the tip, but this did not completely solved (though greatly helped). I was successful running command below, after noticing that lab was actually running under version 8.16.0 ```auto docker run -it --rm --network host \ docker.elastic.co/eland/eland:8.16.0 eland_import_hub_model \ --url https://localhost:9200 -u training -p nonprodpwd \ --hub-model-id sentence-transformers/msmarco-MiniLM-L12-v3 \ --task-type text_embedding --insecure ```