[BUG] Google Colab: ServiceListenTimeout: fiftyone.core.service.DatabaseService failed to bind to port

[brimoor]

Recently, in Google Colab, Installing FiftyOne like this:

!pip install fiftyone

import fiftyone as fo

leads to the following error:

ServiceListenTimeout: fiftyone.core.service.DatabaseService failed to bind to port

[brimoor]

The root cause is that Colab seems to have recently upgraded its default machines to Ubuntu 22.04.

The solution is to install FiftyOne like this:

!pip install fiftyone
!pip install fiftyone-db-ubuntu2204

[brimoor]

See also: #3236, #2961, #2900, #2737, #2480, #1988, #1803

[zshn25]

The root cause is that Colab seems to have recently upgraded its default machines to Ubuntu 22.04.

The solution is to install FiftyOne like this:

!pip install fiftyone
!pip install fiftyone-db-ubuntu2204

I had this error on Ubuntu 20.04. I resolved by installing

!pip install fiftyone
!pip install fiftyone-db-ubuntu2004

instead and before every python run, deleting the .fiftyone folder in my home directory

[sriram-dsl]

refer this #2900 (comment)