libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:245

[songjun54cm]

I compile the code following the guide, and when I try to run the demo from tools/demo.py, the error occurred:

libdc1394 error: Failed to initialize libdc1394
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:245] Error parsing text-format caffe.NetParameter: 392:21: Message type "caffe.LayerParameter" has no field named "roi_pooling_param".
WARNING: Logging before InitGoogleLogging() is written to STDERR
F0501 11:01:21.328140 11559 upgrade_proto.cpp:928] Check failed: ReadProtoFromTextFile(param_file, param) Failed to parse NetParameter file: models/VGG16/test.prototxt
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
Aborted (core dumped)

I think there is something wrong with the prototxt or the pre-trained model.
How can I fix this problem?

[rbgirshick]

My guess is that you have another installation of Caffe already in your PYTHONPATH. You'll need to use the included caffe-fast-rcnn git submodule, which defines a couple of new layers, including the RoI pooling layer.

[songjun54cm]

Thank you very much!
Because i clone the caffe-fast-rcnn by hand, so it is not on the correct branch.
After checking out the fast-rcnn branch and re-compiling the code, the error is gone.
Thank you for give the clue to figure it out.

[rbgirshick]

Good to hear.

[xprincehf]

hi, I have the same error as you, how do you re-compile the code, I recompile under the caffe-fast-rcnn root as caffe install guide,but after that ,the error still exist.

[songjun54cm]

As I have explained, I check out the correct branch and then recompile the code, the error was gone.
I think you should to check that you checked out the correct branch fast-rcnn in the caffe-fast-rcnn root.

[yuanli12139]

I am not quite familiar with git. Could you please explain it more specifically? Thanks a lot!

[yuanli12139]

Hi,
I ran "git checkout master" on my current caffe-fast-rcnn root. Before recompiling, I do "make clean". However the following error occurs:

/bin/sh: /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc: No such file or directory
(standard_in) 1: parse error

Then I keep moving on, "make all", "make runtest"... No more error occurs. When I try to run the demo again, I however still encounter the same error as before:

$ ./tools/demo.py --cpu
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:274] Error parsing text-format caffe.NetParameter: 392:21: Message type "caffe.LayerParameter" has no field named "roi_pooling_param".
WARNING: Logging before InitGoogleLogging() is written to STDERR
F0720 21:37:12.831410 1969263360 upgrade_proto.cpp:928] Check failed: ReadProtoFromTextFile(param_file, param) Failed to parse NetParameter file: /Users/TRotK/fast-rcnn/models/VGG16/test.prototxt
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
Abort trap: 6

Any suggestion is appreciated!

[flipflop98]

Hi,

I have similar situation with above.
I'm using caffe-fast-rcnn the sam with fast-rcnn and checked "PYTHONPATH" parameter indicate the current directory by writing "export PYTHONPATH=/home/ch723.kim/samba/py-faster-rcnn-master/caffe-fast-rcnn/python:$PYTHONPATH" in the ~/.bashrc file.

But I have following error when playing demo.py as follows.
ch723.kim@ubuntu:~/samba/py-faster-rcnn-master$ ./tools/demo.py
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:274] Error parsing text-format caffe.NetParameter: 310:18: Message type "caffe.LayerParameter" has no field named "reshape_param".
WARNING: Logging before InitGoogleLogging() is written to STDERR
F1205 21:22:31.945125 17247 upgrade_proto.cpp:928] Check failed: ReadProtoFromTextFile(param_file, param) Failed to parse NetParameter file: /home/ch723.kim/samba/py-faster-rcnn-master/models/VGG16/faster_rcnn_alt_opt/faster_rcnn_test.pt
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
Aborted (core dumped)

Also I have the same error when I run "./experiments/scripts/faster_rcnn_alt_opt.sh 3 ZF" as follows.
I1205 21:16:10.417134 17205 solver.cpp:32] Initializing solver from parameters:
train_net: "models/ZF/faster_rcnn_alt_opt/stage1_rpn_train.pt"
base_lr: 0.001
display: 20
lr_policy: "step"
gamma: 0.1
momentum: 0.9
weight_decay: 0.0005
stepsize: 60000
snapshot: 0
snapshot_prefix: "zf_rpn"
average_loss: 100
I1205 21:16:10.417202 17205 solver.cpp:61] Creating training net from train_net file: models/ZF/faster_rcnn_alt_opt/stage1_rpn_train.pt
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:274] Error parsing text-format caffe.NetParameter: 221:18: Message type "caffe.LayerParameter" has no field named "reshape_param".
F1205 21:16:10.417758 17205 upgrade_proto.cpp:928] Check failed: ReadProtoFromTextFile(param_file, param) Failed to parse NetParameter file: models/ZF/faster_rcnn_alt_opt/stage1_rpn_train.pt
*** Check failure stack trace: ***

Please give me any suggestion.

Thank you.

[Mhalla]

Hello,
I want to start with Fast RCNN but I have this error

linux@linux-XPS-630i:~/FRCN_ROOT$ ./tools/demo.py --cpu
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/text_format.cc:245] Error parsing text-format caffe.NetParameter: 4:13: Message type "caffe.NetParameter" has no field named "input_shape".
WARNING: Logging before InitGoogleLogging() is written to STDERR
F1206 20:10:44.134786 28081 upgrade_proto.cpp:928] Check failed: ReadProtoFromTextFile(param_file, param) Failed to parse NetParameter file: /home/linux/FRCN_ROOT/models/VGG16/test.prototxt
*** Check failure stack trace: ***
Abandon (core dumped)

Don't really know how to fix this error. I Hope you can help me.

[oversnowgrass]

I have similar situation with above.When i run python demo.py --cpu,I have the error 👍

C:\Users\Administrator>f:
F:>cd caffe\fast-rcnn-master\tools
F:\caffe\fast-rcnn-master\tools>python demo.py --cpu
D:\caffe\caffe-master\Build\x64\Release\pycaffe\caffe\pycaffe.py:13: Runtime
[libprotobuf ERROR ..\src\google\protobuf\text_format.cc:274] Error parsing text
-format caffe.NetParameter: 392:21: Message type "caffe.LayerParameter" has no f
ield named "roi_pooling_param".
WARNING: Logging before InitGoogleLogging() is written to STDERR
F0516 08:40:48.301647 5344 upgrade_proto.cpp:79] Check failed: ReadProtoFromTex
tFile(param_file, param) Failed to parse NetParameter file: F:\caffe\fast-rcnn-m
aster\models\VGG16\test.prototxt
*** Check failure stack trace: ***

F:\caffe\fast-rcnn-master\tools>

I have found lots of solution but still don't solve it.Please can you help me?This is my fast-rcnn folder: