plaidml: plaidml-setup fails with plaidml.exceptions.Unknown: unable to resolve type:

When running plaidml-setup I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/plaidml-setup", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/plaidml/plaidml_setup.py", line 44, in main
    devices, _ = plaidml.devices(ctx, limit=100, return_all=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/plaidml/__init__.py", line 1042, in devices
    enumerator = _Enumerator(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/plaidml/__init__.py", line 1000, in __init__
    ctx, ctypes.cast(None, _ENUM_DEVICES_FUNCTYPE), None)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/plaidml/__init__.py", line 746, in _check_err
    self.raise_last_status()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/plaidml/library.py", line 131, in raise_last_status
    raise self.last_status()
plaidml.exceptions.Unknown: unable to resolve type:

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments: 28 (7 by maintainers)

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This error happens if plaidml can’t find its config and experimental config files. You can explicitly point plaidml to your config files via the PLAIDML_DEFAULT_CONFIG and PLAIDML_EXPERIMENTAL_CONFIG environment variables.

In my case, I was encountering this issue on macOS due to plaidml looking in the wrong directory (likely the same root cause as #321 and #277). I fixed it by copying plaidml’s share files to the directory where it was looking:

cp -r ~/Library/Python/3.7/share/plaidml /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/share/plaidml

ccbrown on Jun 7, 2019

I’m having this issue too. Same two sets of errors as above.

learning2makethings on May 20, 2019

As you say, on Mac OS, it is still not working on 0.6.1. Just did a clean install on a brand new OS installation.

brew install python3
pip3 install plaidml
plaidml-setup

First, when importing plaidml, it fails because it does not find ‘experimental.json’. I checked the path where it is looking for it, and it is ‘/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/share/plaidml/’. That last plaidml folder did not exist, I created it, and copied the config.json and experimental.json from this repo (Mac OS versions) there. Then, plaidml-setup goes on, but fails by not finding libplaidml.dylib. It was in /usr/local/lib, and after copying it to ‘/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/’, it worked fine.

gyenesvi on Jun 27, 2019

/offtopic @rljacobson Try it with bazel <=0.21. I had the same problem

SleepProgger on May 27, 2019