TypeError: __new__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'serialized_options'

[wcwang07]

running train.py as followed encounter the error
(pytorch_p27) [ec2-user@ip-172-31-37-28 SSD-variants]$ python train.py --demo --voc_root /VOCdevkit --checkpoint vgg16_reducedfc.pth

File "train.py", line 27, in
from tensorboardX import SummaryWriter
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/init.py", line 5, in
from .torchvis import TorchVis
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/torchvis.py", line 11, in
from .writer import SummaryWriter
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/writer.py", line 27, in
from .event_file_writer import EventFileWriter
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/event_file_writer.py", line 28, in
from .proto import event_pb2
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/proto/event_pb2.py", line 15, in
from tensorboardX.proto import summary_pb2 as tensorboardX_dot_proto_dot_summary__pb2
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/proto/summary_pb2.py", line 15, in
from tensorboardX.proto import tensor_pb2 as tensorboardX_dot_proto_dot_tensor__pb2
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/proto/tensor_pb2.py", line 15, in
from tensorboardX.proto import resource_handle_pb2 as tensorboardX_dot_proto_dot_resource__handle__pb2
File "/home/ec2-user/anaconda3/envs/pytorch_p27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tensorboardX/proto/resource_handle_pb2.py", line 22, in
serialized_pb=_b('\n(tensorboardX/proto/resource_handle.proto\x12\x0ctensorboardX"r\n\x13ResourceHandleProto\x12\x0e\n\x06\x64\x65vice\x18\x01 \x01(\t\x12\x11\n\tcontainer\x18\x02 \x01(\t\x12\x0c\n\x04name\x18\x03 \x01(\t\x12\x11\n\thash_code\x18\x04 \x01(\x04\x12\x17\n\x0fmaybe_type_name\x18\x05 \x01(\tB/\n\x18org.tensorflow.frameworkB\x0eResourceHandleP\x01\xf8\x01\x01\x62\x06proto3')
TypeError: new() got an unexpected keyword argument 'serialized_options'