error creating mnist lmdb

[oconn...@gmail.com]

I'm a newbie. Ive installed caffe with dependencies and passed all tests post compile.

I'm attempting to complete the MNIST tutorial training, but can't build the lmdb file acquired with the get_cifar10.sh bash script. 

the error is:

~/caffe/examples/mnist$ ./create_mnist.sh

Creating lmdb...

./create_mnist.sh: 16: ./create_mnist.sh: build/examples/mnist/convert_mnist_data.bin: not found

./create_mnist.sh: 18: ./create_mnist.sh: build/examples/mnist/convert_mnist_data.bin: not found

Done.

I looked in the build/examples/mnist directory and an executable convert_mnist.data file exists and is executable but I'm missing the binary needed for the bash script. I have the same problem doing the CIFAR-10 tutorial?

What am I missing?

I looked extensively at this mailing group posts, couldn't find any problem like it. Any help would be appreciated

[Friendly User]

You are almost there:

 just rename convert_mnist_data to convert_mnist_data.bin

( or modify the script accordingly)

 somehow the binary was renamed inconsistently

[Mohamed Omran]

You need to call the script from the Caffe root folder, so:

cd ~/caffe

./examples/mnist/create_mnist.sh

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[oconn...@gmail.com]

i did figure out the problem. It was in the caff/examples CMakeLists.txt file.  

I changed:

add_executable(${name}.bin ${source})

    target_link_libraries(${name} caffe)

    set_target_properties(${name} PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${folder})

to:

add_executable(${name}.bin ${source})

    target_link_libraries(${name}.bin caffe)

    set_target_properties(${name}.bin PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${folder})

and was able to finally train the MNIST data set, so I was able to train an example finally.

Now I am trying to train the CIFAR10 data set and the shell scripts for that tutorial are all messed up. 

caffe/examples/cifar10$ ./create_cifar10.sh

Creating leveldb...

./create_cifar10.sh: 11: ./create_cifar10.sh: ./build/examples/cifar10/convert_cifar_data.bin: not found

Computing image mean...

./create_cifar10.sh: 15: ./create_cifar10.sh: ./build/tools/compute_image_mean: not found

Done.

looking through the get_cifar10.sh and create_cifar10.sh scripts, I am unable to locate the `./cifar10-leveldb`, and the data set image mean `./mean.binaryproto`. files that get_cifar10.sh is supposed to create. 

thanks for the reply Friendly User, 

oconnor132

[Dheeru91]

Hi, I changed it the same way you did. Changed caffe/examples CMakeLists.txt file but still facing :

./create_mnist.sh: 16: ./create_mnist.sh: build/examples/mnist/convert_mnist_data.bin: not found
./create_mnist.sh: 18: ./create_mnist.sh: build/examples/mnist/convert_mnist_data.bin: not found

Please let me know what to do. I am a newbie. I would appreciate if you can provide me with detailed instructions on how to run th MNIST on caffe. The official documentation is hard to figure out and also i am facing errors in each step.

Thanks in advance.

[Steven Clark]

I think I did something like:

cd build/examples/mnist

ln -s convert_mnist_data convert_mnist_data.bin

 

(create symlink to point to real file)

[mahdieh abbasi]

I had this problem and by running create_cifar10.sh from Caffe root folder, successfully ran cifar10.

Thank you