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Created: 2026-03-08T19:06:39-07:00 · Part 1 of 2
I found another Ugoe machine, and I'm getting ready to pick up where we left off with regards to the Olama installation here and incorporating the database into that functionality. The problem is it's been long enough that I'm forgetting even what we were last doing other than ingestion, and I'm having a hard time figuring out even how to turn that on. I think that'd be step one is to find the scripts we were using, and I think I have the main one. I just need to get into the right vent.Apple ingestion file we were using. Take a look, let me know what you think.
This looks like the right ingestion script lineage, yes. It is a TokenSpace/Postgres ingestion script, not the Ollama server itself. It reads text files, chunks them, embeds them with a local SentenceTransformer model, and writes docs/chunks/embeddings into content.documents and content.chunks in Postgres. fileciteturn0file0L1-L16
What it is doing, in plain terms:
- Uses env vars for the database, source folder, embedding model, chunk sizes, batch size, and logging. Defaults are already baked in. fileciteturn0file0L17-L33
- Connects to Postgres at
postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433unless you overrideDB_DSN. fileciteturn0file0L42-L49 - Scans
ROOT_DIRfor.txt,.md,.markdown, and.logfiles, then ingests them in natural numeric order. fileciteturn0file0L94-L107 fileciteturn0file0L170-L177 - Loads a local embedding model from
/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768by default. fileciteturn0file0L42-L49 fileciteturn0file0L166-L169 - Upserts into
content.documents, upserts chunk text/token counts intocontent.chunks, and optionally updates theembeddingvector column. fileciteturn0file0L119-L154 - It is resumable: if chunks already exist for a document, it skips re-embedding unless
FORCE_REEMBED=1. fileciteturn0file0L7-L10 fileciteturn0file0L201-L224
So my read is:
- Yes, this is probably the ingestion file you were using.
- Step one is not “turn on Ollama.” Step one is more likely:
– activate the correct Python venv
– make sure Postgres on port 5433 is running
– make sure the embedding model path exists
– run this script with the rightROOT_DIR
The biggest practical checkpoints are these:
sentence_transformersmust exist in that venv or it will immediately die. fileciteturn0file0L58-L63psycopg2andnumpymust also be installed. fileciteturn0file0L51-L56- Your database must already have the
content.documentsandcontent.chunkstables, withembedding VECTOR(768). fileciteturn0file0L24-L31 - The script does not talk to Ollama at all. It uses
SentenceTransformer(MODEL_DIR, trust_remote_code=True), so embeddings are local Hugging Face style model loading, not Ollama embeddings. fileciteturn0file0L166-L169
A clean way to re-enter this would be:
cd /path/to/where/this/script/is
source ~/ougway_env/venv/bin/activate
# or whatever your actual venv path was
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
python3 ingest_pile_v2.py
If you want to test without doing the whole pile again, point ROOT_DIR at a tiny folder first.
Also, one very important detail: this script only ingests text-like files. If your later plan was “incorporate the database into Ollama functionality,” that is a separate step from this script. This script populates the retrieval database. Then a second script or app would:
- take a user query
- embed the query
- search
content.chunksby vector similarity - pass the retrieved chunks into Ollama as context
That means what you’re probably missing is not just this ingest file, but also the query / retrieval bridge script.
Based on this file alone, I’d say you were in the database population phase, not yet the final Ollama integration phase. fileciteturn0file0L1-L10
Next best move is to locate:
– your venv path
– the script that queried Postgres/pgvector
– any shell script or notes that exported these env vars before running ingestion
Upload the retrieval script too, and I can reconnect the whole chain from ingestion to Ollama.
the path to the ingest file is /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace and the venv seems to be /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv
Good. That gives us the two key pieces.
Use this sequence from a terminal:
cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
python --version
If that activates cleanly, check the script is there:
ls -l /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
Then do a dry sanity check for the Python packages the script needs:
python -c "import psycopg2, numpy; print('base ok')"
python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; print('st ok')"
If those pass, the next thing is to confirm your database and model path before you run ingestion:
echo $DB_DSN
echo $ROOT_DIR
echo $MODEL_DIR
If those are empty, set them explicitly for this session:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export ROOT_DIR='/path/to/the/text-files-you-were-ingesting'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
Then launch the script:
python /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
A few important notes from where you left off:
- This script is for ingestion into Postgres/pgvector, not Ollama itself.
- So if your thought was “turn Ollama back on,” that is a separate step.
- Right now the immediate goal is to get back into the venv, confirm dependencies, confirm DB/model paths, and rerun ingestion.
To help you re-orient fast, here’s the likely order of operations:
- activate
ougway_venv - verify Python packages
- verify Postgres is running
- verify model path exists
- verify
ROOT_DIRpoints to your corpus - run ingestion
- later, reconnect the retrieval/query script to Ollama
Use these checks too:
ls /mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433
And if you want a quick one-shot startup block:
cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export ROOT_DIR='/path/to/the/text-files-you-were-ingesting'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
python ingest_pile_v2.py
The one missing piece is your actual corpus path for ROOT_DIR. Once you tell me that, I can reconstruct the exact command you should run.
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export ROOT_DIR='/path/to/the/text-files-you-were-ingesting'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
python ingest_pile_v2.py
[2026-03-08 19:12:09] [init] MODEL_DIR=/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768
[2026-03-08 19:12:09] [init] ROOT_DIR=/path/to/the/text-files-you-were-ingesting
[2026-03-08 19:12:09] [init] BATCH_SIZE=64 CHUNK_SIZE=1500 OVERLAP=200 FORCE_REEMBED=False
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py", line 296, in <module>
main()
File "/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py", line 192, in main
model = SentenceTransformer(MODEL_DIR, trust_remote_code=True)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/sentence_transformers/SentenceTransformer.py", line 304, in init
raise FileNotFoundError(f"Path {model_name_or_path} not found")
FileNotFoundError: Path /mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768 not found
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
That failure is clean and useful.
Two things are wrong right now:
ROOT_DIRis still the placeholder path, not your real corpus path.MODEL_DIRpoints to a model folder that does not exist on this machine.
The immediate blocker is the model path. The script died before it even got to ingestion.
Run these checks:
ls -ld /mnt/storage
ls -ld /mnt/storage/models
find /mnt -maxdepth 4 -type d | grep -i nomic
find /home/darren -maxdepth 5 -type d | grep -i nomic
That should tell us one of three things:
- the drive is not mounted
- the model folder is elsewhere
- the model was never copied onto this Ugoe machine
Also check whether the storage drive is mounted at all:
df -h
lsblk
mount | grep /mnt
If /mnt/storage is missing, then the path is failing because the drive is not mounted.
If you want the fastest recovery path, do this in order.
First, find the actual model location:
find /home/darren /mnt /opt -maxdepth 5 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep 'nomic-embed'
If that finds something like:
/home/darren/models/nomic-embed-768
then set:
export MODEL_DIR='/home/darren/models/nomic-embed-768'
If it finds nothing, then this machine does not have that embedding model yet.
Next, fix the corpus path. Right now you literally told it:
export ROOT_DIR='/path/to/the/text-files-you-were-ingesting'
That was just a placeholder. You need the real folder, for example something like:
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
or whatever folder actually contains the .txt files.
You can hunt for likely corpus folders with:
find /home/darren /mnt -maxdepth 4 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -Ei 'pile|text|corpus|dataset|data'
Then once you have both real paths:
cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export ROOT_DIR='/REAL/PATH/TO/YOUR/TEXTS'
export MODEL_DIR='/REAL/PATH/TO/nomic-embed-768'
python ingest_pile_v2.py
Before running again, verify both:
ls -ld "$MODEL_DIR"
ls -ld "$ROOT_DIR"
find "$ROOT_DIR" -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
That way you do not waste another launch.
Most likely diagnosis: this box either does not have the model copied over yet, or the storage mount point differs from the old machine. The script itself looks fine; it is just being given paths that do not exist.
Paste me the output of these three commands and I can tell you exactly what to set next:
df -h
find /mnt /home/darren -maxdepth 5 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -i 'nomic\|pile'
find /mnt /home/darren -maxdepth 3 -type d 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,200p'
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ ls -ld /mnt/storage
ls -ld /mnt/storage/models
find /mnt -maxdepth 4 -type d | grep -i nomic
find /home/darren -maxdepth 5 -type d | grep -i nomic
drwx–x–x 8 darren darren 4096 Sep 26 23:55 /mnt/storage
drwxrwxr-x 2 darren darren 4096 Sep 24 18:56 /mnt/storage/models
find: ‘/mnt/storage/tokenspacedata’: Permission denied
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/blobs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/refs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/.no_exist
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-bert-2048
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-bert-2048/blobs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-bert-2048/snapshots
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-bert-2048/refs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/.locks/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/.locks/models–nomic-ai–nomic-bert-2048
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-bert-2048
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ df -h
lsblk
mount | grep /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 3.2G 2.3M 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/sda2 915G 165G 704G 19% /
tmpfs 16G 1.1M 16G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
efivarfs 128K 52K 72K 42% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda1 1.1G 6.2M 1.1G 1% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb 3.6T 972G 2.5T 28% /mnt/storage
tmpfs 3.2G 136K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 4K 1 loop /snap/bare/5
loop1 7:1 0 13M 1 loop /snap/canonical-livepatch/378
loop2 7:2 0 13.4M 1 loop /snap/canonical-livepatch/384
loop4 7:4 0 55.5M 1 loop /snap/core18/2979
loop5 7:5 0 74M 1 loop /snap/core22/2292
loop6 7:6 0 74M 1 loop /snap/core22/2339
loop7 7:7 0 66.8M 1 loop /snap/core24/1267
loop8 7:8 0 66.9M 1 loop /snap/core24/1349
loop9 7:9 0 4.9M 1 loop /snap/curl/2369
loop10 7:10 0 4.9M 1 loop /snap/curl/2384
loop11 7:11 0 254.6M 1 loop /snap/firefox/7869
loop12 7:12 0 55.5M 1 loop /snap/core18/2999
loop13 7:13 0 18.5M 1 loop /snap/firmware-updater/210
loop14 7:14 0 16.4M 1 loop /snap/firmware-updater/216
loop15 7:15 0 531.4M 1 loop /snap/gnome-42-2204/247
loop16 7:16 0 516.2M 1 loop /snap/gnome-42-2204/226
loop17 7:17 0 669.8M 1 loop /snap/gnome-46-2404/145
loop18 7:18 0 606.1M 1 loop /snap/gnome-46-2404/153
loop19 7:19 0 91.7M 1 loop /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop20 7:20 0 1.2G 1 loop /snap/libreoffice/365
loop21 7:21 0 1.2G 1 loop /snap/libreoffice/366
loop22 7:22 0 395M 1 loop /snap/mesa-2404/1165
loop23 7:23 0 290.8M 1 loop /snap/mesa-2404/912
loop24 7:24 0 10.8M 1 loop /snap/snap-store/1270
loop25 7:25 0 17.5M 1 loop /snap/snap-store/1300
loop26 7:26 0 50.9M 1 loop /snap/snapd/25577
loop27 7:27 0 48.1M 1 loop /snap/snapd/25935
loop28 7:28 0 576K 1 loop /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/315
loop29 7:29 0 576K 1 loop /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/343
loop30 7:30 0 321.1M 1 loop /snap/vlc/3777
loop31 7:31 0 254.6M 1 loop /snap/firefox/7901
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda2 8:2 0 930.5G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk /mnt/storage
/dev/sdb on /mnt/storage type ext4 (rw,relatime)
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
Good. Storage is mounted, so the issue is just the wrong model path, not a missing drive.
You do not have:
/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768
But you do have Hugging Face cache copies of the Nomic model under:
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5
The actual usable model directory is usually the snapshot folder inside that cache. Find it with:
find /mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d
That should return something like:
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Use that full returned path as MODEL_DIR.
So the fix is:
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/PUT_THE_HASH_HERE'
Then verify:
ls "$MODEL_DIR"
You should see model files like config/tokenizer/model files.
You also still need to fix ROOT_DIR, because right now it is still fake. Find likely corpus folders with:
find /mnt/storage /home/darren -maxdepth 4 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -Ei 'pile|dataset|corpus|text|docs|chunks'
Then inspect the likely one:
find /that/path -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
You want a directory that actually contains .txt, .md, .log, or .markdown files.
So your next sequence should be:
cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/YOUR_HASH_HERE'
export ROOT_DIR='/REAL/CORPUS/PATH'
ls "$MODEL_DIR"
find "$ROOT_DIR" -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
python ingest_pile_v2.py
One more useful shortcut: if you want to avoid typing that giant snapshot path every time, make a symlink once:
mkdir -p /mnt/storage/models
ln -s /mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/YOUR_HASH_HERE /mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768
Then you can go back to:
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
That is probably the cleanest fix.
Run these two commands next and paste the output:
find /mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d
find /mnt/storage /home/darren -maxdepth 4 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -Ei 'pile|dataset|corpus|text|docs|chunks'
Then I can give you the exact export lines.
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ find /mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
Perfect. Use this for the model path:
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
Then verify it:
ls "$MODEL_DIR"
If that looks good, the only thing still missing is the real ROOT_DIR.
So the next block to run is:
cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
Now find the corpus folder:
find /mnt/storage /home/darren -maxdepth 4 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -Ei 'pile|dataset|corpus|text|docs|chunks'
When you find the likely folder, test it:
find /that/folder -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
Once you confirm the folder with actual .txt or .md files, set:
export ROOT_DIR='/that/folder'
Then run:
python ingest_pile_v2.py
Optional cleanup so the old expected path works again:
mkdir -p /mnt/storage/models
ln -s /mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398 /mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768
Then later you can use:
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
Paste the output of the corpus-folder search and I’ll point to the exact ROOT_DIR.
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ find /mnt/storage /home/darren -maxdepth 4 -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -Ei 'pile|dataset|corpus|text|docs|chunks'
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/.cache
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/.cache/huggingface
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/.cache/huggingface/download
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/blobs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/refs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/.no_exist
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/.no_exist/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/.locks/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/blobs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/refs
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/.no_exist
/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/.locks/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5
/mnt/storage/.Trash-1000/files/hf_datasets
/mnt/storage/.Trash-1000/files/hf_datasets/downloads
/mnt/storage/.Trash-1000/files/hf_datasets/bookcorpus
/mnt/storage/ougway_documents old/ougway_env/bookcorpus_clean
/mnt/storage/ougway_documents old/ougway_env/data/full_dataset
/mnt/storage/ougway_documents old/ougway_env/docs
/mnt/storage/ougway_documents old/ougway_env/docs/debian
/home/darren/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/textual_inversion
/home/darren/stable-diffusion-webui/textual_inversion_templates
/home/darren/Documents/Client/llama.cpp/docs
/home/darren/.local/share/org.gnome.TextEditor
/home/darren/.local/share/org.gnome.TextEditor/drafts
/home/darren/ai/stable-diffusion-webui/modules/textual_inversion
/home/darren/ai/stable-diffusion-webui/textual_inversion_templates
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
There it is.
Your likely corpus path is:
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
So set:
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
Before running ingestion, do one quick sanity check:
find "$ROOT_DIR" -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
ls "$MODEL_DIR" | head
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433
If those look good, run:
python ingest_pile_v2.py
So the full working block is now:
cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
find "$ROOT_DIR" -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
ls "$MODEL_DIR" | head
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433
python ingest_pile_v2.py
If you want the old path convention back, make the symlink now:
mkdir -p /mnt/storage/models
ln -s /mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398 /mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768
Then later you can shorten it to:
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/models/nomic-embed-768'
One caution: I also see old possible corpus locations like:
/mnt/storage/ougway_documents old/ougway_env/data/full_dataset
So if /mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted does not show the expected text files, that older full_dataset path may be the other candidate.
Run the sanity block and paste the output if anything barks.
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ cd /home/darren/Documents/tokenspace
source /home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
find "$ROOT_DIR" -maxdepth 2 -type f | head
ls "$MODEL_DIR" | head
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433
python ingest_pile_v2.py
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0000.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0001.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0002.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0003.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0004.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0005.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0006.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0007.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0008.txt
/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0009.txt
1_Pooling
config.json
config_sentence_transformers.json
model.safetensors
modules.json
README.md
sentence_bert_config.json
special_tokens_map.json
tokenizer_config.json
tokenizer.json
/var/run/postgresql:5433 – no response
[2026-03-08 19:17:29] [init] MODEL_DIR=/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398
[2026-03-08 19:17:29] [init] ROOT_DIR=/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
[2026-03-08 19:17:29] [init] BATCH_SIZE=64 CHUNK_SIZE=1500 OVERLAP=200 FORCE_REEMBED=False
<All keys matched successfully>
[2026-03-08 19:17:36] [init] embedding model loaded
[2026-03-08 19:17:36] [scan] scanning /mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
[2026-03-08 19:17:36] [scan] found 15325 file(s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py", line 296, in <module>
main()
File "/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py", line 204, in main
conn = psycopg2.connect(DB_DSN)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/psycopg2/init.py", line 122, in connect
conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
psycopg2.OperationalError: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433" failed: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
You’re past the file-path mess. The script, model, and corpus are all good.
The only thing failing now is Postgres is not running on port 5433.
This line told us that before the script crashed:
/var/run/postgresql:5433 - no response
And then psycopg2 confirmed it.
So the next step is to find and start the PostgreSQL instance you were using.
Run these checks:
systemctl status postgresql --no-pager
pg_lsclusters
ps aux | grep postgres
Most likely outcomes:
Case 1: PostgreSQL is installed, but your cluster is down
You’ll probably see a cluster listed as down. Then start it with:
sudo pg_ctlcluster <version> main start
Example:
sudo pg_ctlcluster 16 main start
Then recheck:
pg_isready
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433
Case 2: PostgreSQL is running, but on the default port 5432
That is very likely. If so, either:
– change your DB_DSN to 5432, or
– reconfigure the cluster back to 5433
Fastest path is usually just use the live port.
If pg_lsclusters shows something like port 5432, then do:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
python ingest_pile_v2.py
Case 3: PostgreSQL is not started at all
Then do:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
and check again:
pg_lsclusters
pg_isready
Also, confirm the database itself exists:
psql -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5432 -lqt
or if it really uses 5433:
psql -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433 -lqt
You want to see tokenspace in the list.
So right now, the shortest likely recovery path is:
pg_lsclusters
If it shows 5432, then:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
python ingest_pile_v2.py
If it shows down, start it first.
Paste the output of:
pg_lsclusters
systemctl status postgresql --no-pager
and I’ll tell you the exact next command.
Well, see, where this has all been set up prior, and I don't see why I didn't do this, but usually I'll put hints to how it was started up and run, and so forth. Oh, Uboi startup command.txt. Well, I got something here. It does not appear correct, and I'm not sure why there's a numeric code at the bottom of it. Here, I'll paste it in.
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile.py
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile.py
source: command not found
python3: can't open file '/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
This is what I get when I run it.
Two separate issues are showing up there.
First, this:
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
failed with:
source: command not found
because your text file almost certainly has a hidden BOM / junk character at the front. That weird invisible character before source turns it into a different command name. You can see it in your pasted line as the odd leading mark before source.
Second, this line:
python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile.py
is pointing at the old filename, and that file is not there. The script you actually have is:
/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
So the note is from an older state of the setup.
Use this cleaned version instead:
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
But before you run that again, the real blocker is still Postgres. Your earlier run already proved that the model and corpus are fine, and then died here:
connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433" failed
So do this next:
pg_lsclusters
systemctl status postgresql --no-pager
If pg_lsclusters shows your cluster on 5432 instead of 5433, change this line:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
to:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
If it shows the cluster is down, start it with the version shown there, for example:
sudo pg_ctlcluster 16 main start
or just:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
Then test:
pg_isready
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5432
pg_isready -h /var/run/postgresql -p 5433
One more cleanup item: fix that startup note so it stops biting you later. The easiest way is to rewrite it from scratch:
cat > ~/Documents/uboi_startup_command.txt <<'EOF'
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
EOF
Then run it safely with:
bash ~/Documents/uboi_startup_command.txt
Paste the output of pg_lsclusters and I’ll tell you whether to switch to 5432 or start the cluster.
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile.py
158c3431-c479-41fc-8ba9-42b5d88e68ac
not seeing a leading mark though
You're actually seeing two different things there, Darren. Neither is serious.
1️⃣ Why source failed earlier
The earlier line that failed:
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
contained a hidden Unicode BOM character at the beginning. It is invisible in many editors, but the shell reads it as part of the command name. So instead of running source, Bash tries to run something like:
<U+FEFF>source
which obviously does not exist, hence:
source: command not found
Your pasted text here does not show it anymore, because the BOM often disappears when copying between programs.
The easiest fix is simply rewrite the file cleanly, which removes the BOM.
2️⃣ The random UUID-looking number
This line:
158c3431-c479-41fc-8ba9-42b5d88e68ac
is almost certainly just garbage that got appended to the text file by whatever editor or clipboard operation was used earlier. It has no meaning for your system or script. It can be deleted.
3️⃣ The real issue still blocking ingestion
The ingestion failed earlier because PostgreSQL isn't running on port 5433:
connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433" failed
So before running the script again, run this:
pg_lsclusters
That command will show something like:
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner Data directory
16 main 5432 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/16/main
Two possible cases:
If you see 5432
Change your DSN:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
If you see down
Start it:
sudo pg_ctlcluster 16 main start
(or whatever version it shows)
4️⃣ Clean startup script (recommended)
Make a clean run script so you never have to remember this again:
nano ~/Documents/start_ougway_ingest.sh
Paste this:
#!/bin/bash
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
export MODEL_DIR='/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models--nomic-ai--nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398'
export ROOT_DIR='/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted'
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
Make it executable:
chmod +x ~/Documents/start_ougway_ingest.sh
Then you can start ingestion with one command:
~/Documents/start_ougway_ingest.sh
5️⃣ One thing I want to confirm before you run again
Run this and paste the output:
pg_lsclusters
That will tell me exactly what port your database is using, and then we can fire the ingestion back up properly.
So, it looks like I've got the right startup feature. The problem is that the database engine itself looks like it has not started. What would be the simplest method of starting something that's already established?
You’re exactly right — the database simply isn’t running. The installation and cluster likely already exist; it just needs to be started.
The simplest method on Ubuntu is:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
Then confirm it came up:
pg_lsclusters
You should see something like:
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner Data directory
16 main 5432 online postgres /var/lib/postgresql/16/main
The key word is online.
If it still shows down
Start the specific cluster directly:
sudo pg_ctlcluster 16 main start
(Replace 16 with whatever version pg_lsclusters shows.)
Quick health check
After starting it, run:
pg_isready
You should see:
/var/run/postgresql:5432 - accepting connections
One thing to adjust
Your script currently expects port 5433:
postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5433
But most Ubuntu installs run on 5432 unless you changed it earlier.
If pg_lsclusters shows 5432, change your env line to:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
Then run your ingestion again.
Optional but recommended (so you never have to start it manually)
Enable PostgreSQL to start automatically at boot:
sudo systemctl enable postgresql
So your quick recovery sequence right now is:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
pg_lsclusters
pg_isready
Then rerun your ingest command.
If you want, I can also show you a one-line status check that verifies all 4 pieces of Ougway’s stack at once (GPU, model, DB, dataset) so you never have to hunt through this again.
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
[2026-03-08 19:31:11] [init] MODEL_DIR=/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398
[2026-03-08 19:31:11] [init] ROOT_DIR=/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
[2026-03-08 19:31:11] [init] BATCH_SIZE=64 CHUNK_SIZE=1500 OVERLAP=200 FORCE_REEMBED=False
<All keys matched successfully>
[2026-03-08 19:31:13] [init] embedding model loaded
[2026-03-08 19:31:13] [scan] scanning /mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
[2026-03-08 19:31:13] [scan] found 15325 file(s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py", line 296, in <module>
main()
File "/home/darren/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py", line 204, in main
conn = psycopg2.connect(DB_DSN)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/darren/Documents/ougway_venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/psycopg2/init.py", line 122, in connect
conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
psycopg2.OperationalError: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433" failed: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$
Yep — this run shows the same thing, but with one extra clue:
You did not export DB_DSN in that launch, so the script fell back to its built-in default of 5433.
That means there are two steps:
1. Start PostgreSQL
Run:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
Then check what port it is actually using:
pg_lsclusters
pg_isready
Most likely, it will be 5432, not 5433.
2. Export the database DSN before launching ingestion
If pg_lsclusters shows port 5432, run:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
Then launch again:
source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
Why this happened
Your current launch command only set:
HF_HOME- offline Hugging Face flags
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
It did not set DB_DSN, so the script used its internal default and tried /var/run/postgresql on port 5433.
Fastest path now
Run these exact commands:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
pg_lsclusters
pg_isready
If pg_lsclusters shows 5432, then immediately do:
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
Paste the output of pg_lsclusters if you want the exact final startup block.
this is as far as it gets, then nothing. though i can exit out easy enough. It's like seeing it already did some and checking? gets f'd up in that process? IDK
(ougway_venv) darren@ougway:~/Documents/tokenspace$ source ~/Documents/ougway_venv/bin/activate
export HF_HOME=/mnt/storage/hf-cache
export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
export HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
export DB_DSN='postgresql:///tokenspace?host=/var/run/postgresql&port=5432'
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python3 ~/Documents/tokenspace/ingest_pile_v2.py
[2026-03-08 20:45:01] [init] MODEL_DIR=/mnt/storage/hf-cache/hub/models–nomic-ai–nomic-embed-text-v1.5/snapshots/e5cf08aadaa33385f5990def41f7a23405aec398
[2026-03-08 20:45:01] [init] ROOT_DIR=/mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
[2026-03-08 20:45:01] [init] BATCH_SIZE=64 CHUNK_SIZE=1500 OVERLAP=200 FORCE_REEMBED=False
<All keys matched successfully>
[2026-03-08 20:45:03] [init] embedding model loaded
[2026-03-08 20:45:03] [scan] scanning /mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted
[2026-03-08 20:45:03] [scan] found 15325 file(s)
[2026-03-08 20:45:16] [file 1/15325] START /mnt/storage/pile_uncopyrighted/chunk_0000.txt
[2026-03-08 20:45:16] [file 1] existing chunks for doc_id=2: 40974
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