I recently tried to upgrade my Tensorflow installation from 0.6 to 0.7.1 (Ubuntu 15.10, Python 2.7) because it is described to be compatible with more up-to-date Cuda libraries. Everything works well including the simple test from the Tensorflow getting started page. However I'm not able to use cuDNN. When running a program using cuDNN, I first get a warning

"Unable to load cuDNN DSO"

and later the program crashes with

I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:717] Creating TensorFlow device (/gpu:0) -> (device: 0, name: GeForce GTX 980, pci bus id: 0000:01:00.0)
I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_bfc_allocator.cc:73] Allocating 3.30GiB bytes.
I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_bfc_allocator.cc:83] GPU 0 memory begins at 0x704a80000 extends to 0x7d80c8000
F tensorflow/stream_executor/cuda/cuda_dnn.cc:204] could not find cudnnCreate in cudnn DSO; dlerror: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/_pywrap_tensorflow.so: undefined symbol: cudnnCreate

The files I downloaded for the Cuda Installation were

• cuda-repo-ubuntu1504-7-5-local_7.5-18_amd64.deb and
• cudnn-7.0-linux-x64-v4.0-prod.tgz

I followed the instructions on the Tensorflow getting started page with the exception of using cuDNN 7.0 instead of 6.5. $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is "/usr/local/cuda/lib64"

I have no clue why cudnnCreate is not found. Is there somebody who has successfully installed this configuration and can give me advice?

I get the same error when I forgot to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and CUDA_HOME environment variables:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/cuda/lib64" export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda