ROCm fails to install from APT repository in 22.04

[erkinalp]

Ubuntu 22.04's feature freeze has already passed and the version in the APT repository is not installable due to missing dependencies (in APT-based distributions, feature freeze is also the minor version freeze).

Main issues being:

• python 3.8, whereas the earliest version available is 3.9
• libstdc++ and libgcc symbol version 5 but the earliest version available is 9

[Bengt]

Hi, @erkinalp!

Thanks for this bug report. I am glad that users are already testing ROCm in the Ubuntu pre-release version.

For more context, see also the other issues about Ubuntu 22.04.

As a workaround for Python 3.8 not being part of Ubuntu 22.04, one should soon be able to install Python 3.8 from the commonly-used deadsnakes PPA. However, it does not support Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish), yet: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[xuhuisheng]

So I move my test result to the issue.

because of gcc-11, I cannot install rocm-dev rocm-libs in ubuntu-22.04 docker image.

work@7cead9071756:/var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror$ sudo apt install -y rocm-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openmp-extras : Depends: libstdc++-5-dev but it is not installable or
                          libstdc++-7-dev but it is not installable
                 Depends: libgcc-5-dev but it is not installable or
                          libgcc-7-dev but it is not installable
                 Recommends: gcc but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: g++ but it is not going to be installed
 rocm-gdb : Depends: libpython3.8 but it is not installable
 rocm-llvm : Depends: python but it is not installable
             Depends: libstdc++-5-dev but it is not installable or
                      libstdc++-7-dev but it is not installable
             Depends: libgcc-5-dev but it is not installable or
                      libgcc-7-dev but it is not installable
             Recommends: gcc but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: g++ but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: gcc-multilib but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: g++-multilib but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And I try to compile ROCm-5.1.1 in the ubuntu-22.04 docker image. boost-1.72.0, rocsolver had some compile errors.
The pytorch need to compile with python-3.10, and there seems to be some configuration errors, I am going on dig.

[Bengt]

DeadSnakes PPA now has support for Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish":

https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=jammy

So, to fix the issue of Python 3.8 not being installed, you can install it like so:

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt install --yes python3.8

[erkinalp]

@Bengt Python 3.8 is not supported for the entire lifetime of 22.04.

[Bengt]

True. I didn't mean to suggest that installing Python from the PPA should be the permanent solution for end users. I meant it as a workaround for people who want to debug the installation issues, like @xuhuisheng.

[xuhuisheng]

Thank you @Bengt .
I have got that you want to show me a way to test pytorch on ubuntu-22.04 and pytorch-3.8.
But I think the major issue is gcc-11.

I had built a pytorch-1.11.0-py310.whl with a little patch of breadpad. but then I met a compile error when run mnist. It looks like miopen want to compile naive_conv.cpp for torchvision, And this kernel cannot compile properly on gcc-11.

[xuhuisheng]

update: 2022-04-24

I had commetted out a lot of codes to pass the compile step on ubuntu-22.04.
The main part of work is skip log_bench() in rocSOLVER, skip include some header, likes thread.h in hip_runtime.h.

Now pytorch-1.11.0 and tensorflow_rocm-2.8.1 run properly with ROCm-5.1.1 on ubuntu-22.04.
Just some small samples, I only test mnist today.

I think it wont be a problem for ROCm team to support ubuntu-22.04, just wait for them a while.

I will stay on ubuntu-20.04 recently. Maybe next year, maybe ROCm-6.0 can add official support for ubuntu-22.04, then I can upgrade to the new LTS.

[Bengt]

Hi, @xuhuisheng!

Yes, I meant installing Python from the PPA as a workaround, only. Maybe that has aided you in isolating the core issue of GCC-11.

Thanks for testing ROCm installation and compilation so thoroughly. I hope your information can help the @qROCmSupport team in their effort to make ROCm work under Ubuntu 22.04.

To my eyes, the next, most obvious target would be Ubuntu 22.04.1. This will be the first Linux kernel update which needs to be considered for building the lower-level libraries. However, only supporting the first point release of Ubuntu's LTS versions is not what I would like to consider solid support.

[erkinalp]

Indeed, as @Bengt has always been saying, this should have been ready much earlier, with all the bugs ironed out by now.

[Laitaps]

This makes it really hard to support AMD. On my laptop with an RTX 3080, everything just works. My desktop with Radeon Vll, not so much. I am very surprised. If AMD does not take steps to improve support, they will never have parity with Nvidia in ML. This was an opportunity to build some goodwill and you blew it.

[L3P3]

@xuhuisheng could you please provide your changes as a fork so I may test it also?

[xuhuisheng]

@L3P3 rocsolver had solved fmt issue. We can wait for the next version 5.2.

ROCm/rocSOLVER@2bbfb89