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ImportError: cannot import name 'run_main'

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This is in reference to an issue already posted at https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/14855.

After building TF V1.4 (master) from source on a Mac running High Sierra, and running Tensorboard, I get the following error.

$ tensorboard --logdir=/tmp/cifar10_train
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/tensorboard", line 7, in <module>
    from tensorboard.main import run_main
ImportError: cannot import name 'run_main'

This previously worked before I built TF from source insstalling it via: pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow. I tried deleting /tmp/cifar10_train, but it did not help. Any ideas?

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Created 6 years ago
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jartcommented, Dec 13, 2017

If you’re building TensorFlow from source please pip install tb-nightly.

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nfeltcommented, Dec 13, 2017

The tensorflow pip package by default depends on tensorflow-tensorboard; tb-nightly is the nightly build of tensorboard. In your case the version of tensorflow at HEAD that you were building creates the tensorboard script calling run_main (a recent change from the old main method name), so for that to work it requires a newer version of tensorboard than the stable release.