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# Why does my process stop responding when using Hydra with W&B?

This page explains how to resolve unresponsive processes that occur when you start a process with Hydra alongside W\&B. If your process stops responding when you start it with Hydra, the likely cause is a multiprocessing conflict between Hydra and W\&B.

To fix this, change W\&B's multiprocessing protocol to `"thread"`. This avoids the conflict so your process can start cleanly. You can do this in one of two ways:

## Pass a settings parameter to wandb.init

```python theme={null}
wandb.init(settings=wandb.Settings(start_method="thread"))
```

## Set a global environment variable

```bash theme={null}
export WANDB_START_METHOD=thread
```

For more information, see the [Hydra integration guide](/models/integrations/hydra/) and [Distributed training troubleshooting](/models/track/log/distributed-training/).

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