DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

[achukumar001]

When am trying to run the tensorboard in anaconda prompt, I am getting below error. Can somebody help me to recover from it?

Reproducing code example:

tensorboard --logdir=logs/

Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\core_init_.py", line 16, in
from . import multiarray
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\multiarray.py", line 12, in
from . import overrides
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\overrides.py", line 6, in
from numpy.core._multiarray_umath import (
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec)
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\aswk\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\tensorboard.exe_main.py", line 5, in
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorboard\main.py", line 45, in
from tensorboard import default
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorboard\default.py", line 34, in
import tensorflow as tf
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow_init.py", line 24, in
from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow # pylint: disable=unused-import
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python_init_.py", line 47, in
import numpy as np
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy_init_.py", line 142, in
from . import core
File "c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\core_init_.py", line 47, in
raise ImportError(msg)
ImportError:

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS FOR ADVICE ON HOW TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE!

Importing the multiarray numpy extension module failed. Most
likely you are trying to import a failed build of numpy.
Here is how to proceed:

• If you're working with a numpy git repository, try git clean -xdf
  (removes all files not under version control) and rebuild numpy.
• If you are simply trying to use the numpy version that you have installed:
  your installation is broken - please reinstall numpy.
• If you have already reinstalled and that did not fix the problem, then:

  1. Check that you are using the Python you expect (you're using c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\python.exe),
     and that you have no directories in your PATH or PYTHONPATH that can
     interfere with the Python and numpy versions you're trying to use.

  2. If (1) looks fine, you can open a new issue at
     https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues. Please include details on:

     • how you installed Python
     • how you installed numpy
     • your operating system
     • whether or not you have multiple versions of Python installed
     • if you built from source, your compiler versions and ideally a build log

     Note: this error has many possible causes, so please don't comment on
     an existing issue about this - open a new one instead.

Original error was: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

Numpy/Python version information:

(base) C:\Users\aswk.spyder-py3\python example files\Test_project>conda list numpy
packages in environment at C:\Users\aswk\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3:

Name Version Build Channel
msgpack-numpy 0.4.3.2 pypi_0 pypi
numpy 1.16.1 pypi_0 pypi
numpydoc 0.8.0 py36_0

[mattip]

Duplicate of #12957. If you are running a brand-new Anaconda, they broke updating numpy using pip. You need to manually modify your PATH before running python.

rem This fails
python -c "import numpy"

rem Does this succeed ??? 
PATH=path\to\site-packages\numpy\.libs;%PATH%
python -c "import numpy"

In your case path\to\site-packages\numpy\.libs is c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\.lib

[achukumar001]

Duplicate of #12957. If you are running a brand-new Anaconda, they broke updating numpy using pip. You need to manually modify your PATH before running python.

rem This fails
python -c "import numpy"

rem Does this succeed ??? 
PATH=path\to\site-packages\numpy\.libs;%PATH%
python -c "import numpy"

In your case path\to\site-packages\numpy\.libs is c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\.lib

But I don't have a directory like this.
c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\.lib

I have this directory
c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib

I added this path but still came the same error.

[mattip]

Strange. The line numpy 1.16.1 pypi_0 pypi suggests your numpy came from PyPI. and the wheel package on PyPI should create that directory.
Do you have any *.dll files in c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy at all? There should be one.

[achukumar001]

Strange. The line numpy 1.16.1 pypi_0 pypi suggests your numpy came from PyPI. and the wheel package on PyPI should create that directory.
Do you have any *.dll files in c:\users\aswk\appdata\local\continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy at all? There should be one.

I don't have any *.dll file in that directory.

[mattip]

What steps did you take to install the software stack you are using?

[achukumar001]

What steps did you take to install the software stack you are using?

Previously this was working well. I am using anaconda and spyder for programming. I updated the anaconda, python, tensorflow and other packages recently. By doing this I got compatibility issues and getting errors when running the code. So I downgraded again this python and tensorflow, so those issues got corrected. After that, I am getting this error when I try to run the tensorboard. I tried different versions of numpy. But still, I am getting the error.
I used pip to install these ones.

[rgommers]

I used pip to install these ones.

don't do that in conda if you can avoid it. to fix this, try:

pip uninstall numpy
conda install numpy

[achukumar001]

I used pip to install these ones.

don't do that in conda if you can avoid it. to fix this, try:

pip uninstall numpy
conda install numpy

I tried all these. Still, the error is the same.
So I uninstalled anaconda and reinstalled it. Now it's working.

[mattip]

Thanks for the update