Trying to find TF version and getting "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1..."

votbod 2020-08-02 16:40:10 UTC #1

completely new tensorbook with ubuntu. opened terminal. ran python -c ‘import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.version)’ and got Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key2.2.0. Why didn’t the command work?

jeremy 2020-08-05 20:54:25 UTC #2

That’s interesting. I usually only see those error messages when using Tensorflow over SSH.

For whatever reason, Tensorflow 2 attempts to open an X window. When it fails, it may print an error message like that.

Is this happening over SSH or just in your local terminal?

votbod 2020-08-06 21:07:14 UTC #3

local terminal but is that command in some way making it think its a remote client?

jeremy 2020-09-02 19:49:08 UTC #4

It seems that the Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key message doesn’t pop up at all when using lightdm.
To switch to lightdm, run:

sudo apt -y install lightdm

Once that installs, run the following, and select lightdm:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

Then reboot.