CSTrainingCPUOnlyExamples does not work out of the box

[justin-romano]

The CPU Only training example is broken.
I am running windows 10, vs2017 enterprise.
Here is some info.

Input file '../../Tests/EndToEndTests/Image/Data\Train_cntk_text.txt' is not open.

[CALL STACK]
    > Microsoft::MSR::CNTK::IDataReader::  SupportsDistributedMBRead
    - Microsoft::MSR::CNTK::IDataReader::  SupportsDistributedMBRead (x3)
    - CreateDeserializer
    - CreateCompositeDataReader (x3)
    - CNTK::  UniversalLearner
    - CNTK::  CreateCompositeMinibatchSource
    - CSharp_CNTK_DefaultParamInitScale_get
    - CSharp_CNTK_MinibatchSource_TextFormatMinibatchSourceInternal__SWIG_3
    - 00007FFDC15DFEC7 (SymFromAddr() error: The specified module could not be found.)

The file is there but in an entirely different folder.
So i changed the folder to ../../Tutorials/HelloWorld-LogisticRegression
and ran it again. (btw. Im just messing around with this for the first time im sure im not alone.)
Now im getting a mass of these.

txt) has a sparse suffix (expected size = 784, actual size = 2).
WARNING: A dense sample at offset 10024 in the input file (../../Tutorials/HelloWorld-LogisticRegression\Test_cntk_text.txt) has a sparse suffix (expected size = 10, actual size = 1).
WARNING: A dense sample at offset 10054 in the input file (../../Tutorials/HelloWorld-LogisticRegression\Test_cntk_text.txt) has a sparse suffix (expected size = 784, actual size = 2).
WARNING: A dense sample at offset

finally i get this: and this file really does not exist anywhere in the source base;

======== running LSTMSequenceClassifier.Train using CPU ========
attempt: Input file '../../Tests/EndToEndTests/Text/SequenceClassification/Data\Train.ctf' is not open., retrying 2-th time out of 5...
attempt: Input file '../../Tests/EndToEndTests/Text/SequenceClassification/Data\Train.ctf' is not open., retrying 3-th time out of 5...
attempt: Input file '../../Tests/EndToEndTests/Text/SequenceClassification/Data\Train.ctf' is not open., retrying 4-th time out of 5...
attempt: Input file '../../Tests/EndToEndTests/Text/SequenceClassification/Data\Train.ctf' is not open., retrying 5-th time out of 5...

Can this be fixed? would be nice to have the examples just work.

[JaneShenYY]

In the path in your code, add .txt at the end, e.g. '../../Tests/EndToEndTests/Image/Data\Train_cntk_text.txt.txt'

[justin-romano]

oh, really? I did not even see a tests folder. maybe my installation is missing something