Cannot install dlib in space

Spaces
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Hi gus,
Last year I made a space project, using dlib. It works well.

Recently I have to rebuild the space project, but the rebuilding fails every time, getting stuck (see logs). After about 30mins, the building fails with [error 137 (out of memory)]. I then remove all other packages and leaving only dlib in the requirement.txt, but still get the error: [unexpected job error].
I have already added [startup_duration_timeout: 4h] into the README.md file.

Does anyone know what is happening with dlib in hugging face???

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→ RUN --mount=target=/tmp/requirements.txt,source=requirements.txt pip install --no-cache-dir -r /tmp/requirements.txt
Collecting cmake (from -r /tmp/requirements.txt (line 7))
Downloading cmake-4.0.0-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl.metadata (6.3 kB)
Collecting dlib==19.22.0 (from -r /tmp/requirements.txt (line 8))
Downloading dlib-19.22.0.tar.gz (7.4 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7.4/7.4 MB 113.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Preparing metadata (setup.py): started
Preparing metadata (setup.py): finished with status ‘done’
Downloading cmake-4.0.0-py3-none-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (27.9 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 27.9/27.9 MB 444.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Building wheels for collected packages: dlib
Building wheel for dlib (setup.py): started
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If it was working before, maybe you could try fixing it by estimating the previous version…?

I hear that there are cases where build errors occur with the latest version in Windows environments, but Spaces is probably a Linux environment…

Or perhaps upgrade cmake?

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Hi John6666,
Thank you very much for the reply.
Actually I haven’t changed anything (scripts, requirements.txt) for the rebuild. The dlib version was also forced to a version [19.22.0] in the requirements.txt.
So I believe something has been changed in Hugging Face.

Recently other users also report similar issues with dlib and Hugging Face.

Regarding the cmake, previously I haven’t include it in requirements.txt but it worked. Now I also try including camake into requirements but still not working…

So very weird

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I heard a rumor that there was a change in the management policy for Docker spaces, but I don’t know exactly what it is…
Well, the dlib not working issue is probably just an accident in any case.

In cases where there are hidden dependencies causing malfunctions, the huggingface_hub library (because it is in charge of save, load, cache, token, upload, and download) is often the cause. Also, recently, pydantic was causing terrible crashes.

Yesterday, there was a strange bug occurring in addition to the latest version of Gradio.

pydantic==2.10.6