tensorflow: TF 1.5.0 Java API broken in Ubuntu 14.04: `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found

System information

Have I written custom code (as opposed to using a stock example script provided in TensorFlow): No
OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04): Linux Ubuntu 14.04
TensorFlow installed from (source or binary): binary
TensorFlow version (use command below): 1.5.0
Python version: N/A
Bazel version (if compiling from source): N/A
GCC/Compiler version (if compiling from source): N/A
CUDA/cuDNN version: N/A
GPU model and memory: N/A
Exact command to reproduce: N/A

Describe the problem

The 1.5.0 Java API fails at runtime on Ubuntu 14.04 (after working okay for 1.3/1.4) on the hello world example. I originally noticed this behavior in CentOS 7; I’m reporting this as a bug for Ubuntu 14.04 because it is officially supported in the docs and the error appears to be the same.

Possibly related to #15777, in which case the solution may just be to build libtensorflow_jni.so on Ubuntu 14. Thanks in advance for looking into this!

Source code / logs

(Optionally) use docker container with Java 8 and Maven: docker pull goyalzz/ubuntu-java-8-maven-docker-image docker run -it goyalzz/ubuntu-java-8-maven-docker-image:latest bash
Follow instructions in official Java API Maven example.
Upon Step 3 of above ( mvn -q compile exec:java), observe the following error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.6.0:java (default-cli) on project hellotf: An exception occured while executing the Java class. /tmp/tensorflow_native_libraries-1518205710861-0/libtensorflow_jni.so: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by /tmp/tensorflow_native_libraries-1518205710861-0/libtensorflow_jni.so) -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 15 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

1.6.0-rc1 will not support 14.04, but we will try to support it in 1.6.0 official.

av8ramit on Feb 13, 2018

I would appreciate it if you would reconsider for the same reasons it was reconsidered in #15777. We are happily using the java API on CentOS 7. This version upgrade to TF effectively means we need to rebuild these artifacts and deploy the associated (non-trivial) build chain.

krm1312 on Feb 10, 2018

I have the exact same problem with TF Java 1.5.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7. TF 1.4.0 Java worked fine before.

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) 
$ uname -a 
Linux adam 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 20:13:58 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ rpm -qf /lib64/libstdc++.so.6
libstdc++-4.8.5-16.el7_4.1.x86_64
$ file /lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.19 
/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.19: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=ecd3167b42e7d9035fe94a5276cf1d21dd00a462, stripped
$ mvn -q compile exec:java
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.6.0:java (default-cli) on project hellotf: An exception occured while executing the Java class. /tmp/tensorflow_native_libraries-1518364937142-0/libtensorflow_jni.so: /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by /tmp/tensorflow_native_libraries-1518364937142-0/libtensorflow_jni.so) -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

Unfortunately, this is the newest version of RHEL/CentOS (there is no 8 yet, not even beta).

Python TF 1.5.0 (tensorflow-1.5.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl) works just fine on RHEL/CentOS7, so this seems specific to TF Java.

dverstap on Feb 11, 2018

We can try looking into building this with ubuntu 14.04 We can work together on Monday to come up with a solution.

gunan on Feb 11, 2018

Please see https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/16899#issuecomment-365441309

gunan on Feb 16, 2018