ImportError: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC

Antonio Orozco

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Oct 25, 2021, 11:22:28 PM10/25/21

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Hello,

Running into the following issue on a Raspberry Pi 4

$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Raspbian

Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Release: 10

Codename: buster

$ uname -a

Linux liverpool 5.10.63-v7l+ #1459 SMP Wed Oct 6 16:41:57 BST 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

Python 3.7.3 (default, Jan 22 2021, 20:04:44)

[GCC 8.3.0] on linux

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> from grpc._cython import cygrpc

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/grpc/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>

from grpc import _compression

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/grpc/_compression.py", line 15, in <module>

from grpc._cython import cygrpc

ImportError: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/grpc/_cython/cygrpc.cpython-37m-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so)

Antonio Orozco

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Oct 25, 2021, 11:33:16 PM10/25/21

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Traceback (most recent call last):

File "fpl_notifications.py", line 4, in <module>

from google.cloud import pubsub_v1

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google/cloud/pubsub_v1/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>

from google.cloud.pubsub_v1 import types

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google/cloud/pubsub_v1/types.py", line 25, in <module>

from google.api_core import gapic_v1

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google/api_core/gapic_v1/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>

from google.api_core.gapic_v1 import config

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/google/api_core/gapic_v1/config.py", line 23, in <module>

import grpc

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/grpc/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>

from grpc import _compression

File "/home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/grpc/_compression.py", line 15, in <module>

from grpc._cython import cygrpc

ImportError: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by /home/antonio/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/grpc/_cython/cygrpc.cpython-37m-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so)

Richard Belleville

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Oct 27, 2021, 1:21:07 PM10/27/21

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How did you install grpcio? If you used pip install grpcio, can you please include the installation logs?

Did this work on previous versions?

Antonio Orozco

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Oct 27, 2021, 11:44:54 PM10/27/21

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This is the first time trying to use google pub/sub python package.

Command that I used to install:
python3 -m pip --no-cache-dir install grpcio

I tried many other ways, all yield the same result. "sudo pip3..", "sudo pip...", "pip3 ...", "pip..."
It works perfectly on Ubuntu 20.04.

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple

Collecting grpcio

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9e/68/721d94afa6fea6c559b1d795d2bae0147b3db9b43f4069d392371a2b8cab/grpcio-1.41.1-cp37-cp37m-linux_armv7l.whl (47.9MB)

100% |████████████████████████████████| 48.0MB 12.8MB/s

Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5.2 in ./.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from grpcio) (1.16.0)

Installing collected packages: grpcio

Successfully installed grpcio-1.41.1

ldd --version

ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10+rpt2+rpi1) 2.28

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

jeremy scott

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Dec 1, 2021, 12:15:53 AM12/1/21

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I'm having the same exact issue. Did this issue ever get resolved?

Dayton Turner

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Dec 1, 2021, 2:20:10 PM12/1/21

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Same, I'm also just running into this and looking for a solution too! please let us know if you figure it out!

Antonio Orozco

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Dec 2, 2021, 12:19:39 PM12/2/21

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This was not resolved. I just re-installed Ubuntu on a RaspberryPi instead. I noticed that there's a new version of Debian for the RaspberryPi (Based on Debian version 11-bullseye), it might work now but I have not tried.
Unfortunately, it seems like Google PubSub python package is just incompatible with Debian GLIBC 2.28

Inovosystems Software company

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Jan 9, 2022, 8:12:44 AM1/9/22

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same issue here for hrs .... any work around that does not involve reinstalling OS

Anurag Gorkar

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Feb 13, 2022, 11:13:48 AM2/13/22

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Hi,

I am Anurag. I was working on a project involving a Firestore data-base and raspberry pi. I successfully installed firebase_admin by using "pip install firebase_admin". Typing "import firebase_admin" or "from firebase_admin import credentials" works just fine. However typing "from firebase admin import firestore" gives the "ImportError: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found" error.

Johnny Oshika

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Jun 2, 2022, 8:44:35 PM6/2/22

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This is a real shame. I've got this Raspberry Pi OK:

Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

GLIBC version: 2.31

google-cloud-firestore worked fine before I flashed my SD card and installed the latest Raspberry Pi OS. I don't know which version of Raspberry Pi OS I had installed before, but now I'm wondering if google-cloud-firestore will work again if I roll back the OS to an older version.

Has anyone gotten this working?

Rolando Medina

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Jul 6, 2022, 12:50:53 PM7/6/22

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I was having the same issue with a Raspberry 4 running Raspberry Pi OS 32 bits

The solution that worked for me is adding /home/user/.local/bin to PATH. For this you need to add the following line to your shell config file (.bashrc or .zshrc)

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

After doing this, run source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc

This because apparently pip installs packages in a different source that is added to PATH by default

After doing this the problem was still happening so I found this post https://groups.google.com/g/grpc-io/c/vjbL3IdZ2Vk/m/EcKSeD4eAgAJ

According to my research the default installation of the OS manages a different version of GLIBC that is a dependency of grpcio so what finally fixed it for me was uninstalling grpcio and installing it again with the following commands

1. pip uninstall grpcio

2. pip uninstall grpcio-status

3. pip install grpcio==1.44.0 --no-binary=grpcio

4. pip install grpcio-tools==1.44.0 --no-binary=grpcio-tools

NOTE: Te installation of each package takes a considerable amount of time (15-20 min)

This fixed the issue for me. I'm sure that adding the ~/.local/bin to PATH was also necessary to make it work

Hope it helps

Anton Toernblom

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Dec 6, 2022, 9:56:45 AM12/6/22

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I was having the issue inside a docker container running on a Raspberry pi 4 32bit OS.

It worked if i ran it with -it bash then did your instructions. Fails with a massive error log when added this to the dockerfile however,

FROM python:3.11

WORKDIR /usr/src/app

COPY main.py .

RUN apt-get update

RUN export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" && \

pip uninstall grpcio && \

pip uninstall grpcio-status && \

pip install grpcio==1.44.0 --no-binary=grpcio && \

pip install grpcio-tools==1.44.0 --no-binary=grpcio-tools

Raajesh

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Jun 9, 2023, 4:55:59 PM6/9/23

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My raspberry pi 4 currently has GLIBC 2.28.

```
ldd --version
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.28-10+rpt2+rpi1+deb10u2) 2.28
```

This setup works on mine with Python 3.7.17. For firebase-admin and its dependencies which causes these issues use this

```
firebase-admin==5.4.0
google-cloud-firestore==2.5.0
grpcio==1.42.0
grpcio-status==1.42.0
```
If it works for you, its well and good.

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