Fixes nightly CI failure (#2039)

* Fixes nightly CI failure

* Fixed wrong compare

Author: vfdev-5

tests/ignite/distributed/test_auto.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 import pytest
 import torch
@@ -165,7 +166,8 @@ def test_auto_methods_gloo(distributed_context_single_node_gloo):
     _test_auto_model_optimizer(ws, device)
 
     if ws > 1 and device.type == "cpu":
-        with pytest.raises(AssertionError, match=r"SyncBatchNorm layers only work with GPU modules"):
+        error_type = AssertionError if LooseVersion(torch.__version__) <= LooseVersion("1.8.1") else ValueError
+        with pytest.raises(error_type, match=r"SyncBatchNorm layers only work with GPU modules"):
             model = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(20, 100), nn.BatchNorm1d(100))
             auto_model(model, sync_bn=True)