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fiona 1.7.11 causes ImportError when trying any example with geopandas

See original GitHub issue

I created a virtual environment named geoviews-env (I use Miniconda) and installed a few things:

conda create -n geoviews-env python=3.6 -y
source activate geoviews-env
conda install -c conda-forge -c ioam holoviews geoviews -y
conda install xarray -y
conda install -c conda-forge iris -y
conda install -c conda-forge geopandas -y

If I now run the following:

python -c 'import geopandas as gpd;print(gpd.__version__)'

I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/jack/miniconda3/envs/geoviews-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/geopandas/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from geopandas.io.file import read_file
  File "/home/jack/miniconda3/envs/geoviews-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/geopandas/io/file.py", line 3, in <module>
    import fiona
  File "/home/jack/miniconda3/envs/geoviews-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fiona/__init__.py", line 69, in <module>
    from fiona.collection import Collection, BytesCollection, vsi_path
  File "/home/jack/miniconda3/envs/geoviews-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fiona/collection.py", line 9, in <module>
    from fiona.ogrext import Iterator, ItemsIterator, KeysIterator
ImportError: /home/jack/miniconda3/envs/geoviews-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fiona/../../../libgdal.so.20: undefined symbol: _ZN11xercesc_3_211InputSource11setEncodingEPKDs

I thought it was a problem in Fiona, so I tried to downgrade poppler to 0.52 as suggested here. That didn’t work for me.

Here is the output of conda list:

asn1crypto                0.24.0                   py36_0    conda-forge
backcall                  0.1.0                      py_0    conda-forge
bleach                    2.1.3                      py_0    conda-forge
bokeh                     0.12.15                  py36_0    conda-forge
boost                     1.66.0                   py36_1    conda-forge
boost-cpp                 1.66.0                        1    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.6                         1    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2018.03.07                    0  
cairo                     1.14.12              h77bcde2_0  
cartopy                   0.16.0                   py36_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2018.4.16                py36_0  
cf_units                  1.2.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
cffi                      1.11.5                   py36_0    conda-forge
chardet                   3.0.4                    py36_0    conda-forge
click                     6.7                        py_1    conda-forge
click-plugins             1.0.3                    py36_0    conda-forge
cligj                     0.4.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
cloudpickle               0.5.2                      py_0    conda-forge
cryptography              2.2.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
curl                      7.59.0                        1    conda-forge
cycler                    0.10.0                   py36_0    conda-forge
cytoolz                   0.9.0.1                  py36_0    conda-forge
dask                      0.17.3                     py_0    conda-forge
dask-core                 0.17.3                     py_0    conda-forge
dbus                      1.11.0                        0    conda-forge
decorator                 4.3.0                      py_0    conda-forge
descartes                 1.1.0                      py_1    conda-forge
distributed               1.21.7                   py36_0    conda-forge
entrypoints               0.2.3                    py36_1    conda-forge
expat                     2.2.5                         0    conda-forge
fiona                     1.7.11                   py36_3    conda-forge
fontconfig                2.13.0                        0    conda-forge
freetype                  2.8.1                         0    conda-forge
freexl                    1.0.5                         0    conda-forge
gdal                      2.2.2            py36hc209d97_1  
geopandas                 0.3.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
geos                      3.6.2                         1    conda-forge
geoviews                  1.4.3                      py_0    conda-forge
giflib                    5.1.4                         0    conda-forge
glib                      2.53.6               h5d9569c_2  
gmp                       6.1.2                         0    conda-forge
gst-plugins-base          1.12.4               h33fb286_0  
gstreamer                 1.12.4               hb53b477_0  
hdf4                      4.2.13                        0    conda-forge
hdf5                      1.10.1                        2    conda-forge
heapdict                  1.0.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
holoviews                 1.10.2                     py_0    conda-forge
html5lib                  1.0.1                      py_0    conda-forge
icu                       58.2                          0    conda-forge
idna                      2.6                      py36_1    conda-forge
intel-openmp              2018.0.0                      8  
ipykernel                 4.8.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
ipython                   6.3.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
ipython_genutils          0.2.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
ipywidgets                7.2.1                    py36_1    conda-forge
iris                      2.0.0                    py36_1    conda-forge
jedi                      0.12.0                   py36_0    conda-forge
jinja2                    2.10                     py36_0    conda-forge
jpeg                      9b                            2    conda-forge
json-c                    0.12.1                        0    conda-forge
jsonschema                2.6.0                    py36_1    conda-forge
jupyter                   1.0.0                      py_1    conda-forge
jupyter_client            5.2.3                    py36_0    conda-forge
jupyter_console           5.2.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
jupyter_core              4.4.0                      py_0    conda-forge
kealib                    1.4.7                         4    conda-forge
kiwisolver                1.0.1                    py36_1    conda-forge
krb5                      1.14.6                        0    conda-forge
libdap4                   3.19.2                        1    conda-forge
libedit                   3.1                  heed3624_0  
libffi                    3.2.1                hd88cf55_4  
libgcc                    7.2.0                h69d50b8_2  
libgcc-ng                 7.2.0                hdf63c60_3  
libgdal                   2.2.2                h804cdde_1  
libgfortran               3.0.0                         1  
libgfortran-ng            7.2.0                hdf63c60_3  
libiconv                  1.15                          0    conda-forge
libkml                    1.3.0                         6    conda-forge
libnetcdf                 4.4.1.1                      10    conda-forge
libpng                    1.6.34                        0    conda-forge
libpq                     9.6.6                h4e02ad2_0  
libsodium                 1.0.16                        0    conda-forge
libspatialindex           1.8.5                         1    conda-forge
libspatialite             4.3.0a              h72746d6_18  
libssh2                   1.8.0                         2    conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng              7.2.0                hdf63c60_3  
libtiff                   4.0.9                         0    conda-forge
libuuid                   1.0.3                         1    conda-forge
libxcb                    1.13                          0    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.9.8                         0    conda-forge
libxslt                   1.1.32                        0    conda-forge
locket                    0.2.0                    py36_1    conda-forge
lxml                      4.2.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
markupsafe                1.0                      py36_0    conda-forge
matplotlib                2.2.2                    py36_1    conda-forge
mistune                   0.8.3                    py36_1    conda-forge
mkl                       2018.0.2                      1  
mkl_fft                   1.0.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
mkl_random                1.0.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
msgpack-python            0.5.6                    py36_0    conda-forge
munch                     2.3.1                      py_0    conda-forge
nbconvert                 5.3.1                      py_1    conda-forge
nbformat                  4.4.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
ncurses                   6.0                  h9df7e31_2  
netcdf4                   1.3.1                    py36_1    conda-forge
notebook                  5.4.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
numpy                     1.14.2           py36hdbf6ddf_1  
olefile                   0.45.1                   py36_0    conda-forge
openjpeg                  2.3.0                         2    conda-forge
openssl                   1.0.2o               h20670df_0  
owslib                    0.16.0                     py_0    conda-forge
packaging                 17.1                       py_0    conda-forge
pandas                    0.22.0           py36hf484d3e_0  
pandoc                    2.2                           0    conda-forge
pandocfilters             1.4.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
param                     1.6.1                      py_0    conda-forge
parso                     0.2.0                      py_0    conda-forge
partd                     0.3.8                    py36_0    conda-forge
pcre                      8.41                          1    conda-forge
pexpect                   4.5.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
pickleshare               0.7.4                    py36_0    conda-forge
pillow                    5.1.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
pip                       10.0.1                   py36_0  
pixman                    0.34.0                        1    conda-forge
poppler                   0.60.1               hc909a00_0  
poppler-data              0.4.9                         0    conda-forge
proj4                     4.9.3                         5    conda-forge
prompt_toolkit            1.0.15                   py36_0    conda-forge
psutil                    5.4.5                    py36_0    conda-forge
psycopg2                  2.7.4                    py36_0    conda-forge
ptyprocess                0.5.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
pycparser                 2.18                     py36_0    conda-forge
pyepsg                    0.3.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
pygments                  2.2.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
pyke                      1.1.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
pyopenssl                 17.5.0                   py36_1    conda-forge
pyparsing                 2.2.0                    py36_0    conda-forge
pyproj                    1.9.5.1                  py36_0    conda-forge
pyqt                      5.6.0                    py36_5    conda-forge
pysal                     1.14.3                   py36_0    conda-forge
pyshp                     1.2.12                     py_0    conda-forge
pysocks                   1.6.8                    py36_1    conda-forge
python                    3.6.5                hc3d631a_2  
python-dateutil           2.7.2                      py_0    conda-forge
pytz                      2018.4                     py_0    conda-forge
pyyaml                    3.12                     py36_1    conda-forge
pyzmq                     17.0.0                   py36_4    conda-forge
qt                        5.6.2               h974d657_12  
qtconsole                 4.3.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
readline                  7.0                  ha6073c6_4  
requests                  2.18.4                   py36_1    conda-forge
rtree                     0.8.3                    py36_0    conda-forge
scipy                     1.0.1            py36hfc37229_0  
send2trash                1.5.0                      py_0    conda-forge
setuptools                39.1.0                   py36_0  
shapely                   1.6.4                    py36_0    conda-forge
simplegeneric             0.8.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
sip                       4.18                     py36_1    conda-forge
six                       1.11.0                   py36_1    conda-forge
sortedcontainers          1.5.10                   py36_0    conda-forge
sqlalchemy                1.2.7            py36h65ede16_0    conda-forge
sqlite                    3.23.1               he433501_0  
tblib                     1.3.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
terminado                 0.8.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
testpath                  0.3.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.7                hc745277_3  
toolz                     0.9.0                      py_0    conda-forge
tornado                   5.0.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
traitlets                 4.3.2                    py36_0    conda-forge
udunits2                  2.2.26                        0    conda-forge
urllib3                   1.22                     py36_0    conda-forge
util-linux                2.21                          0  
wcwidth                   0.1.7                    py36_0    conda-forge
webencodings              0.5                      py36_0    conda-forge
wheel                     0.31.0                   py36_0  
widgetsnbextension        3.2.1                    py36_0    conda-forge
xarray                    0.10.3                   py36_0  
xerces-c                  3.2.1                         0    conda-forge
xorg-libxau               1.0.8                         3    conda-forge
xorg-libxdmcp             1.1.2                         3    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.3                h5e939de_4  
yaml                      0.1.7                         0    conda-forge
zeromq                    4.2.5                         1    conda-forge
zict                      0.1.3                      py_0    conda-forge
zlib                      1.2.11               ha838bed_2 

I created another virtual environment to see if the issue was reproducible with geopandas.

conda create -n geopandas-env python=3.6
source activate geopandas-env
conda install -c conda-forge geopandas -y

This time I can import geopandas:

python -c 'import geopandas as gpd;print(gpd.__version__)'
0.3.0+60.gce8f70c

Here is the output of conda list for the geopandas-env environment:

blas                      1.1                    openblas    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.6                h9a117a8_4  
ca-certificates           2017.08.26           h1d4fec5_0  
cairo                     1.14.12              h77bcde2_0  
certifi                   2018.1.18                py36_0  
click                     6.7              py36h5253387_0  
click-plugins             1.0.3                    py36_0  
cligj                     0.4.0                    py36_0  
curl                      7.58.0               h84994c4_0  
cycler                    0.10.0           py36h93f1223_0  
dbus                      1.12.2               hc3f9b76_1  
descartes                 1.1.0            py36h2f9c1c0_0  
expat                     2.2.5                he0dffb1_0  
fiona                     1.7.10           py36h48a52f0_0  
fontconfig                2.12.6               h49f89f6_0  
freetype                  2.8                  hab7d2ae_1  
freexl                    1.0.5                h14c3975_0  
gdal                      2.2.2            py36hc209d97_1  
geopandas                 0.3.0            py36h2f9c1c0_0  
geos                      3.6.2                heeff764_2  
giflib                    5.1.4                h26a3ec6_1  
glib                      2.53.6               h5d9569c_2  
gst-plugins-base          1.12.4               h33fb286_0  
gstreamer                 1.12.4               hb53b477_0  
hdf4                      4.2.13               h3ca952b_2  
hdf5                      1.10.1               h9caa474_1  
icu                       58.2                 h9c2bf20_1  
intel-openmp              2018.0.0                      8  
jpeg                      9b                   h024ee3a_2  
json-c                    0.12.1               ha6a3662_2  
kealib                    1.4.7                h79811e5_5  
kiwisolver                1.0.1            py36h764f252_0  
krb5                      1.14.2               hcdc1b81_6  
libboost                  1.65.1               habcd387_4  
libcurl                   7.58.0               h1ad7b7a_0  
libdap4                   3.19.0               h5bd89bb_2  
libedit                   3.1                  heed3624_0  
libffi                    3.2.1                hd88cf55_4  
libgcc-ng                 7.2.0                hdf63c60_3  
libgdal                   2.2.2                h804cdde_1  
libgfortran               3.0.0                         1  
libgfortran-ng            7.2.0                hdf63c60_3  
libkml                    1.3.0                h9d32c78_3  
libnetcdf                 4.4.1.1              h816af47_8  
libpng                    1.6.34               hb9fc6fc_0  
libpq                     9.6.6                h4e02ad2_0  
libspatialindex           1.8.5                h20b78c2_2  
libspatialite             4.3.0a              h72746d6_18  
libssh2                   1.8.0                h9cfc8f7_4  
libstdcxx-ng              7.2.0                hdf63c60_3  
libtiff                   4.0.9                h28f6b97_0  
libuuid                   1.0.3                h1bed415_2  
libxcb                    1.12                 hcd93eb1_4  
libxml2                   2.9.7                h26e45fe_0  
matplotlib                2.2.2            py36h0e671d2_0  
mkl                       2018.0.2                      1  
munch                     2.2.0                    py36_0  
ncurses                   6.0                  h9df7e31_2  
numpy                     1.14.3          py36_blas_openblas_200  [blas_openblas]  conda-forge
openblas                  0.2.20                        7    conda-forge
openjpeg                  2.2.0                h622c3cc_2  
openssl                   1.0.2n               hb7f436b_0  
pandas                    0.22.0           py36hf484d3e_0  
pcre                      8.41                 hc27e229_1  
pip                       9.0.1                    py36_5  
pixman                    0.34.0               hceecf20_3  
poppler                   0.60.1               hc909a00_0  
poppler-data              0.4.8                hf2eda46_0  
proj4                     4.9.3                hc8507d1_7  
psycopg2                  2.7.4            py36hb7f436b_0  
pyparsing                 2.2.0            py36hee85983_1  
pyproj                    1.9.5.1                  py36_0  
pyqt                      5.6.0            py36h0386399_5  
pysal                     1.14.3                   py36_0  
python                    3.6.4                hc3d631a_3  
python-dateutil           2.7.0                    py36_0  
pytz                      2018.3                   py36_0  
qt                        5.6.2               hd25b39d_14  
readline                  7.0                  ha6073c6_4  
rtree                     0.8.3            py36h2f9c1c0_0  
scipy                     1.0.1           py36_blas_openblas_200  [blas_openblas]  conda-forge
setuptools                38.5.1                   py36_0  
shapely                   1.6.4            py36h0c48222_0  
sip                       4.18.1           py36h51ed4ed_2  
six                       1.11.0           py36h372c433_1  
sqlalchemy                1.2.5            py36h14c3975_0  
sqlite                    3.22.0               h1bed415_0  
tk                        8.6.7                hc745277_3  
tornado                   5.0                      py36_0  
wheel                     0.30.0           py36hfd4bba0_1  
xerces-c                  3.2.1                hac72e42_0  
xz                        5.2.3                h55aa19d_2  
zlib                      1.2.11               ha838bed_2 

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  • State:closed
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  • Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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ceballcommented, May 28, 2018

I’ll try to pin this appropriately in the next release.

I’m not an expert on this, but I’m not sure there’s much you can do as the geoviews maintainer, except ask people to be sure not to mix competing channels (defaults and conda-forge in this case).

Above, in the first environment you can see that gdal is from defaults, while geopandas and fiona are from conda-forge. Presumably something like conda install -c conda-forge gdal would fix the problem? Or a conda install conda-forge::gdal kind of a thing to make sure gdal keeps coming from conda-forge in the future.

In the second environment, those packages are all from defaults. Though I see scipy, numpy, etc from conda-forge, and that’s another invitation for binary incompatibilities to show up…

I sympathize with the user perspective, though, because it’s very easy to mix channels even if you are trying not to.

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philippjfrcommented, May 6, 2018

Thanks for reporting this, I’ll try to pin this appropriately in the next release.

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