I can't run Tensorboard in Ubuntu: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Tensorflow and Tensorboard ver. 2. ubuntu:16.04 Pre-trained model: ssd_mobilenet_v1_pets.config I have not written any custom code.

Hi everyone, a couple of days ago I ran Tensorboard in Ubuntu and I got results without any problem. I used a pre-trained model and I want to put the results into Tensorboard.

I have a remote session and I do the same yesterday, from models / object_detection folder, I run the command:

tensorboard --bind_all --port 6006 --logdir='training'

but I received the errors: TensorBoard 2.0.2 at http://ubuntu:6006/ (Press CTRL+C to quit) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/tensorboard", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(run_main()) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/main.py", line 66, in run_main app.run(tensorboard.main, flags_parser=tensorboard.configure) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/absl/app.py", line 299, in run _run_main(main, args) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/absl/app.py", line 250, in _run_main sys.exit(main(argv)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/program.py", line 267, in main return runner(self.flags) or 0 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/program.py", line 283, in _run_serve_subcommand self._register_info(server) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/program.py", line 329, in _register_info manager.write_info_file(info) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/manager.py", line 267, in write_info_file payload = "%s\n" % _info_to_string(tensorboard_info) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/manager.py", line 126, in _info_to_string for k in _TENSORBOARD_INFO_FIELDS File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorboard/manager.py", line 126, in <dictcomp> for k in _TENSORBOARD_INFO_FIELDS UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I uninstall and install the Tesnorboard but the same errors. I would appreciate any help. Thank U

[gowthamkpr]

@Anatolist his is caused by the default encoding difference between python 2.7 (ascii) and 3.x (utf-8). Try using python 3.x and let me know if the error still persists

[rithiksachdev]

Hi @Anatolist, I was asking you to run this diagnose_tensorboard.py file. We only need to specify the path from our working directory to the logs generated by tensorflow. If you face any error in your virtualenv then read the output and follow the directions. I hope this helps 😄