title: Tensorflow object detection model train is creating no checkpoints on GCP
body: <p>We are trying to train Tensorflow object detection model on GCP.
  After following all necessary steps from below url, we have started training on GCP with out any error. But no check points were created under train directory. We have given built lot of time with different region but no luck.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/training-an-object-detector-using-cloud-machine-learning-engine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/training-an-object-detector-using-cloud-machine-learning-engine</a></p>
  
  <p>This is the command we have used to start training.</p>
  
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  <pre><code>gcloud ml-engine jobs submit training `whoami`_object_detection_eval_`date +%s` \
      --job-dir=gs://car-ml/train \
      --packages dist/object_detection-0.1.tar.gz,slim/dist/slim-0.1.tar.gz \
      --module-name object_detection.eval \
      --region asis-east1 \
      --scale-tier BASIC_GPU \
      -- \
      --checkpoint_dir=gs://car-ml/train \
      --eval_dir=gs://car-ml/eval \
      --pipeline_config_path=gs://car-ml/data/faster_rcnn_resnet101_voc07.config
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Even in the log file also, training steps has been started.
  Like below.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tDeoC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tDeoC.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Job details are:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fXNTZ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fXNTZ.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>