Unexpected issue while building examples for movidius neural compute stick (ncsdk)

Question

Recently I bought Movidius Neural Compute Stick and I started with provided tutorial on the website. Make install works without any issue. However, despite following exact steps I'm constantly failing into same error while running make examples:

mvNCCompile -w bvlc_googlenet.caffemodel -s 12 deploy.prototxt
mvNCCompile v02.00, Copyright @ Movidius Ltd 2016

Failed to include caffe_pb2, things might go wrong!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/mvNCCompile", line 118, in 
create_graph(args.network, args.inputnode, args.outputnode, args.outfile, args.nshaves, args.inputsize, args.weights)
File "/usr/local/bin/mvNCCompile", line 100, in create_graph
from Controllers.CaffeParser import parse_caffe
File "/usr/local/bin/ncsdk/Controllers/CaffeParser.py", line 29, in 
import caffe
File "/opt/movidius/caffe/python/caffe/init.py", line 4, in 
from .proto.caffe_pb2 import TRAIN, TEST
File "/opt/movidius/caffe/python/caffe/proto/caffe_pb2.py", line 17, in 
serialized_pb='\n\x0b\x63\x61\x66\x66\x65.proto\x12\x05\x63(...most likely not important here...)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/google/protobuf/descriptor.py", line 829, in new
return _message.default_pool.AddSerializedFile(serialized_pb)
TypeError: expected bytes, str found
Makefile:80: recipe for target 'compile' failed
make[4]: *** [compile] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/sebastian/Development/movidius_workspace/ncsdk/examples/caffe/GoogLeNet'
cp: cannot stat '../../caffe/GoogLeNet/graph': No such file or directory
Makefile:9: recipe for target 'googlenet' failed
make[3]: *** [googlenet] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/sebastian/Development/movidius_workspace/ncsdk/examples/apps/multistick_cpp'
Makefile:12: recipe for target 'multistick_cpp/.' failed
make[2]: *** [multistick_cpp/.] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/sebastian/Development/movidius_workspace/ncsdk/examples/apps'
Makefile:12: recipe for target 'apps/.' failed
make[1]: *** [apps/.] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sebastian/Development/movidius_workspace/ncsdk/examples'
Makefile:51: recipe for target 'examples' failed
make: *** [examples] Error 2

My configuration is as follows:

sebastian@linux:~$ python --version
Python 2.7.12
sebastian@linux:~$ echo $PYTHONPATH
:/opt/movidius/caffe/python
sebastian@linux:~$ lscpu | grep "Model name"
Model name: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N2840 @ 2.16GHz
sebastian@linux:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

I'd appreciate suggestions what I need to do to succesfully build examples.

Answer 1

We did not find any issues during installation. Our configuration is as follows:

movidius@osboxes:~$ python --version

Python 2.7.12

movidius@osboxes:~$ echo $PYTHONPATH

:/opt/movidius/caffe/python

movidius@osboxes:~$ lscpu | grep "Model name"

Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz

movidius@osboxes:~$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

Could you please run the make clean command and try again installation using make install then do make examples.

If you are still facing any issues please refer to the following links:

1. https://developer.movidius.com/start

2. https://movidius.github.io/ncsdk/install.html