Tensorboard: ImportError: cannot import name '_message' from 'google.protobuf.pyext' (c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\pyext\__init__.py)

[bestazad]

I am trying this command(That I don't know what it does! I only following a tutorial):

tensorboard --logdir=/tmp/tensorflow/rnn_words

And get this result:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts\tensorboard.exe\__main__.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorboard\main.py", line 45, in <module>
    from tensorboard import default
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorboard\default.py", line 34, in <module>
    import tensorflow as tf
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tensorflow  # pylint: disable=unused-import
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\__init__.py", line 52, in <module>
    from tensorflow.core.framework.graph_pb2 import *
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\core\framework\graph_pb2.py", line 6, in <module>
    from google.protobuf import descriptor as _descriptor
  File "c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\descriptor.py", line 47, in <module>
    from google.protobuf.pyext import _message
ImportError: cannot import name '_message' from 'google.protobuf.pyext' (c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google\protobuf\pyext\__init__.py)

What does the above command do? Why do I get this error message?

C:\Windows\system32>python --version
Python 3.7.1

C:\Windows\system32>pip install protobuf
Requirement already satisfied: protobuf in c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (3.6.1)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.9 in c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from protobuf) (1.12.0)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\programdata\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (from protobuf) (40.6.3)

[nfelt]

Duplicate of #1566

Please see #1566 for context.

[GedamuA]

python -mpip install protobuf --upgrade

[SushanthDC]

When using tensorflow, the ImportError: DLL load failed error, there are many reasons, up from the google.protobuf.pyext import _message error, it should be the protobuf version of the problem,

When tensorflow is automatically installed, protobuf installs the latest version 3.7.1, and there is an incompatibility problem.

Replace with protobuf 3.6.1 (pip install protobuf==3.6.1)