py-faster-rcnn, error while comiling caffer, make runtest : Error parsing text-format caffe.SolverPa

[Chan Kim]

building py-faster-rcnn  (using anaconda2)

during caffe compile under caffer-fast-rcnn,

I ran make all, make test ok, but when I ran make runtest, I see this error.

[----------] 9 tests from AdaGradSolverTest/1, where TypeParam = caffe::CPUDevice<double>
[ RUN      ] AdaGradSolverTest/1.TestAdaGradLeastSquaresUpdateWithEverythingShare
libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:169] Error parsing text-format caffe.SolverParameter: 1:23: Expected identifier.
F0126 21:54:49.620090 17939 test_gradient_based_solver.cpp:55] Check failed: google::protobuf::TextFormat::ParseFromString(proto, &param)
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
    @     0x7f0106880a5d  google::LogMessage::Fail()
    @     0x7f0106884ef7  google::LogMessage::SendToLog()
    @     0x7f0106882d59  google::LogMessage::Flush()
    @     0x7f010688305d  google::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()
    @           0x5c9121  caffe::GradientBasedSolverTest<>::InitSolverFromProtoString()
    @           0x5e85a2  caffe::GradientBasedSolverTest<>::RunLeastSquaresSolver()
    @           0x5e931e  caffe::GradientBasedSolverTest<>::TestLeastSquaresUpdate()
    @           0x5e9890  caffe::AdaGradSolverTest_TestAdaGradLeastSquaresUpdateWithEverythingShare_Test<>::TestBody()
    @           0x865a0d  testing::internal::HandleExceptionsInMethodIfSupported<>()
    @           0x857d11  testing::Test::Run()
    @           0x857df7  testing::TestInfo::Run()
    @           0x857f37  testing::TestCase::Run()
    @           0x85ce3f  testing::internal::UnitTestImpl::RunAllTests()
    @           0x8655bd  testing::internal::HandleExceptionsInMethodIfSupported<>()
    @           0x85733a  testing::UnitTest::Run()
    @           0x4eaeaf  main
    @       0x3505e1ed5d  (unknown)
    @           0x4eac09  (unknown)
make: *** [runtest] Aborted (core dumped)

I have ~/anaconda2/lib in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. and added ~/anaconda2/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf stuff.

I'm doing this on CentOS 6.7(final).

What can be wrong? I'm new to this caffe software. I just want to run the demo program (and analyze it later if possible..)

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Ahmed Ibrahim]

I have a similar problem on CENTOS 6.5 CPU only during make runtest I get

[ RUN      ] SGDSolverTest/0.TestLeastSquaresUpdateWithMomentumMultiIter

libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:169] Error parsing text-format caffe.SolverPa                                                                     rameter: 1:23: Expected identifier.

F0307 13:45:13.686787 64987 test_gradient_based_solver.cpp:54] Check failed: google::protobuf:                                                                     :TextFormat::ParseFromString(proto, &param)

*** Check failure stack trace: ***

    @     0x7f2ba4b42140  google::LogMessage::Fail()
    @     0x7f2ba4b42099  google::LogMessage::SendToLog()
    @     0x7f2ba4b41a77  google::LogMessage::Flush()
    @     0x7f2ba4b449ff  google::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal()
    @           0x602259  caffe::GradientBasedSolverTest<>::InitSolverFromProtoString()
    @           0x610438  caffe::GradientBasedSolverTest<>::RunLeastSquaresSolver()
    @           0x61f25c  caffe::GradientBasedSolverTest<>::TestLeastSquaresUpdate()
    @           0x61f51b  caffe::SGDSolverTest_TestLeastSquaresUpdateWithMomentumMultiIter_Tes                                                                     t<>::TestBody()
    @           0x7043fd  testing::internal::HandleExceptionsInMethodIfSupported<>()
    @           0x6f6701  testing::Test::Run()
    @           0x6f67e7  testing::TestInfo::Run()
    @           0x6f6927  testing::TestCase::Run()
    @           0x6fb82f  testing::internal::UnitTestImpl::RunAllTests()
    @           0x703fad  testing::internal::HandleExceptionsInMethodIfSupported<>()
    @           0x6f5d2a  testing::UnitTest::Run()
    @           0x4b4012  main
    @       0x3c3a41ed5d  (unknown)
    @           0x4b3eb9  (unknown)

[liuxia...@gmail.com]

I have the same problem now! oh.

在 2016年1月26日星期二 UTC+8下午9:06:03，Chan Kim写道：

[Ahmed Ibrahim]

check this

https://ahmedibrahimvt.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/installing-caffe-on-old-linux/

the "tricks" part of this article talks about a similar problem and how to solve it

[Chan Kim]

Ibrahim, Thanks very much!

I was retrying to compile caffe today and met with the same problem and searched the internet and saw my same question your answer about protobuf version.

I yum removed old protobuf version and installed protobuf 2.6 and now caffe runs smoothly with GPU. Another fix I made was in Makefile.config where backslash was omitted in specifying line

-gencode arch=compute_30,code=sm_30 \

so compute_40 and 50 was not included in CUDA_ARCH which had caused device not found(?) error during 'make runtest'. Hope this could help anyone with the same problem. (I'm using CentOS6.7)