Tensorflow: Failed to create session

Question

I get an error when I run my code, the error is:

tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.InternalError: Failed to create session.

Here is my code:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import ...
import ...

checkpoint='/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/model/'
MODEL_SAVE_PATH = "/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/model/"

def getAllImages(folder):
    assert os.path.exists(folder)
    assert os.path.isdir(folder)
    imageList = os.listdir(folder)
    imageList = [os.path.join(folder,item) for item in imageList ]
    num=len(imageList)
    return imageList,num

def get_labei():
    img_dir, num = getAllImages(r"/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/model/file/")
    for i in range(num):
        image = Image.open(img_dir[i])
        image = image.resize([56, 56])
        image = np.array(image)
        image_array = image

        with tf.Graph().as_default():
            image = tf.cast(image_array, tf.float32)
            image_1 = tf.image.per_image_standardization(image)
            image_2 = tf.reshape(image_1, [1, 56, 56, 3])

            logit = color_inference.inference(image_2)
            y = tf.nn.softmax(logit)
            x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=[56, 56, 3])

            saver = tf.train.Saver()
            with tf.Session() as sess:
              ckpt = tf.train.get_checkpoint_state(MODEL_SAVE_PATH)
              if ckpt and ckpt.model_checkpoint_path:
                   global_step = ckpt.model_checkpoint_path.split('/')[-1].split('-')[-1]
                   saver.restore(sess, ckpt.model_checkpoint_path)
                   print('Loading success, global_step is %s' % global_step)
                   prediction = sess.run(y)
                   max_index = np.argmax(prediction)
              else:
                   print('No checkpoint file found')

        path='/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/move_file/'+str(max_index)
        isExists = os.path.exists(path)
        if not isExists :
            os.makedirs(path)
        shutil.copyfile(img_dir[i], path)

def main(argv=None):
    get_labei()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    tf.app.run()

And here is my error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/model/color_class_2.py", line 61, in <module>
    tf.app.run()
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/platform/app.py", line 44, in run
    _sys.exit(main(_sys.argv[:1] + flags_passthrough))
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/model/color_class_2.py", line 58, in main
    get_labei()
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/example/char/data/model/color_class_2.py", line 40, in get_labei
    with tf.Session() as sess:
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1187, in __init__
    super(Session, self).__init__(target, graph, config=config)
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 552, in __init__
    self._session = tf_session.TF_NewDeprecatedSession(opts, status)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 24, in __exit__
    self.gen.next()
  File "/home/vrview/tensorflow/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/errors_impl.py", line 469, in raise_exception_on_not_ok_status
    pywrap_tensorflow.TF_GetCode(status))
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.InternalError: Failed to create session.

Answer 1

I had exactly same problem and this is what I did:

1. Nvidia Driver:

   $ nvidia-smi | NVIDIA-SMI 384.130 Driver Version: 384.130

Found driver 384.130

2. Updated Driver

   $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

   $ sudo apt update

The above log showed nvidia 396 is being installed.

nvidia_396:
 Running module version sanity check.

Restarted machine and checked nvidia driver:

 $ nvidia-smi
 NVIDIA-SMI 396.54                 Driver Version: 396.54

Checked nvcc:

$ nvcc --version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2015 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Tue_Aug_11_14:27:32_CDT_2015
Cuda compilation tools, release 7.5, V7.5.17

Checked Cuda:

$ cat /usr/local/cuda/version.txt
CUDA Version 9.0.176

Checked Conda & Tensroflow

$ conda list | grep tensorflow
tensorflow                1.10.0          gpu_py36hcebf108_0    Anaconda
tensorflow-base           1.10.0          gpu_py36had579c0_0    Anaconda
tensorflow-gpu            1.10.0               hf154084_0    Anaconda

Finally tested tensorflow again

>>> import tensorflow as tf
>>> hello = tf.constant('hi,tensorflow')
>>> sess = tf.Session()
>>>

It all worked. The issue was that nvidia driver was not compatible with cuda tensorflow so i updated to latest and it worked.