tensorboard: ValueError: Duplicate plugins for name projector

When I used the tensorbboard logdir command, I got the following error : “ValueError: Duplicate plugins for name projector”.

I tried to diagnose the cause of the error using diagnose_tensorboard.py, and got the following suggestions :

Diagnostics

Diagnostics output

--- check: autoidentify
INFO: diagnose_tensorboard.py version f96437fea2136ca3f0f574686f70b747e28c6327

--- check: general
INFO: sys.version_info: sys.version_info(major=3, minor=6, micro=5, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
INFO: os.name: nt
INFO: os.uname(): N/A
INFO: sys.getwindowsversion(): sys.getwindowsversion(major=10, minor=0, build=16299, platform=2, service_pack='')

--- check: package_management
INFO: has conda-meta: True
INFO: $VIRTUAL_ENV: None

--- check: installed_packages
WARNING: Could not generate requirement for distribution -ensorboard 2.1.1 (f:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages): Parse error at "'-ensorbo'": Expected W:(abcd...)
INFO: installed: tensorboard==2.1.1
INFO: installed: tensorflow==2.1.0
INFO: installed: tensorflow-estimator==2.1.0

--- check: tensorboard_python_version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tensorboard.py", line 464, in main
    suggestions.extend(check())
  File "tensorboard.py", line 75, in wrapper
    result = fn()
  File "tensorboard.py", line 240, in tensorboard_python_version
    from tensorboard import version
ImportError: cannot import name 'version'

--- check: tensorflow_python_version
2020-03-30 11:54:19.727053: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cudart64_101.dll
F:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\h5py\__init__.py:36: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `float` to `np.floating` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.float64 == np.dtype(float).type`.
  from ._conv import register_converters as _register_converters
WARNING: Limited tf.compat.v2.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
WARNING: Limited tf.compat.v2.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
WARNING: Limited tf.compat.v2.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
WARNING: Limited tf.compat.v2.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
WARNING: Limited tf.compat.v2.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
WARNING: Limited tf.compat.v2.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
WARNING: Limited tf.summary API due to missing TensorBoard installation.
INFO: tensorflow.__version__: '2.1.0'
INFO: tensorflow.__git_version__: 'v2.1.0-rc2-17-ge5bf8de410'

--- check: tensorboard_binary_path
INFO: which tensorboard: b'F:\\Anaconda3\\Scripts\\tensorboard.exe\r\n'

--- check: addrinfos
socket.has_ipv6 = True
socket.AF_UNSPEC = <AddressFamily.AF_UNSPEC: 0>
socket.SOCK_STREAM = <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>
socket.AI_ADDRCONFIG = <AddressInfo.AI_ADDRCONFIG: 1024>
socket.AI_PASSIVE = <AddressInfo.AI_PASSIVE: 1>
Loopback flags: <AddressInfo.AI_ADDRCONFIG: 1024>
Loopback infos: [(<AddressFamily.AF_INET6: 23>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 0, '', ('::1', 0, 0, 0)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 0, '', ('127.0.0.1', 0))]
Wildcard flags: <AddressInfo.AI_PASSIVE: 1>
Wildcard infos: [(<AddressFamily.AF_INET6: 23>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 0, '', ('::', 0, 0, 0)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 0, '', ('0.0.0.0', 0))]

--- check: readable_fqdn
INFO: socket.getfqdn(): 'DESKTOP-L9KR3OA'

--- check: stat_tensorboardinfo
INFO: directory: C:\Users\bobbi\AppData\Local\Temp\.tensorboard-info
INFO: os.stat(...): os.stat_result(st_mode=16895, st_ino=82472168176244921, st_dev=4274481677, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=0, st_atime=1584984303, st_mtime=1584984303, st_ctime=1584980530)
INFO: mode: 0o40777

--- check: source_trees_without_genfiles
INFO: tensorboard_roots (1): ['F:\\Anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages']; bad_roots (0): []

--- check: full_pip_freeze
WARNING: Could not generate requirement for distribution -ensorboard 2.1.1 (f:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages): Parse error at "'-ensorbo'": Expected W:(abcd...)
INFO: pip freeze --all:
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System information

OS Platform and Distribution : Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0
TensorFlow installed from source : - TensorFlow version: numpy 1.18.1
numpydoc 0.8.0
protobuf 3.10.1
tensorflow 2.1.0
tensorflow-estimator 2.1.0
tensorflow-gpu-estimator 2.1.0
Python version: 3.6.5
CUDA/cuDNN version: 10.1
GPU model and memory:NVIDA GeForce 940MX 2G

Describe the current behavior At the beginning of using tensorboard, there will be a web link, but it will be blank after opening the link. At that time, the diagnosis result is to reinstall tensorflow tensorflow-gpu and others. After trying to reinstall tensorflow and other components, I got the error message “ValueError: Duplicate plugins for name projector” . The above results are obtained by diagnosis. I’m sure there’s no problem with the file I’m going to open using tensorboard, because it’s already shown on another machine.

Thank you very much for your reply！

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 18 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorboard/issues/3443#issuecomment-731567853 uninstalling tb-nightly, uninstalling tensorboard, and then reinstalling tensorboard worked for me

+16

JulesGM on Nov 26, 2020

It seems that the problem is that when you install tf-nightly, the package tb-nightly is also installed. Then, both the packages tensorboard and tb-nightly contain a plugin with name ‘projector’.

My work around: Replace the function iter_entry_points in “site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py” with the following:

    def iter_entry_points(self, group, name=None):
        """Yield entry point objects from `group` matching `name`

        If `name` is None, yields all entry points in `group` from all
        distributions in the working set, otherwise only ones matching
        both `group` and `name` are yielded (in distribution order).
        """

        return (entry for dist in self
                for entry in dist.get_entry_map(group).values()
                if ((name is None) or (name == entry.name)) and (
                    entry.name != 'projector'
                    or entry.dist.project_name != 'tb-nightly'))

fachu000 on Nov 21, 2020

I have same problem. I did exactly what @stephanwlee said. Made sure there’s one installation of tensorboard, yet the problem persists. I have v2.3.

thisismygitrepo on Sep 6, 2020

@ZhaooweiZhong, thanks for the issue. This error can happen if there were different versions of TensorBoard installed. While pip freeze only reports the latest one installed, if you have installed previous one before which then got upgraded, the lib folder can contain artifacts from other versions.

Can you please try pip uninstall tensorboard && pip install tensorboard?

stephanwlee on Mar 30, 2020