Dynamic linker build error on Linux ARM64 prevents Linux ARM64 wheels for 0.19 release

[johnthagen]

Checklist

• I have searched for similar issues.
• For Python issues, I have tested with the latest development wheel.
• I have checked the release documentation and the latest documentation (for main branch).

Steps to reproduce the issue

ARM64 Linux builds are not available due to a runtime dynamic linker error: "cannot allocate memory in static TLS block"

See: https://github.com/isl-org/Open3D/actions/runs/12604362802/job/35131136413

Error message

____ ERROR collecting test/t/registration/test_transformation_estimation.py ____
ImportError while importing test module '/root/Open3D/python/test/t/registration/test_transformation_estimation.py'.
Hint: make sure your test modules/packages have valid Python names.
Traceback:
../miniconda3/envs/open3d/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py:126: in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
python/test/t/registration/test_transformation_estimation.py:8: in <module>
    import open3d as o3d
../miniconda3/envs/open3d/lib/python3.10/site-packages/open3d/__init__.py:100: in <module>
    from open3d.cpu.pybind import (
E   ImportError: /root/miniconda3/envs/open3d/lib/python3.10/site-packages/open3d/cpu/pybind.cpython-310-aarch64-linux-gnu.so: cannot allocate memory in static TLS block

Open3D, Python and System information

- Linux
- ARM64

Additional information

This prevents building Linux ARM wheels for the 0.19 release

• Version bump to v0.19 #7121
• Build fixes for v0.19 #7128

Linux ARM wheels are especially important for macOS developers who run Docker containers locally. Since macOS devices have migrated to ARM64 architecture, Linux containers running on macOS ARM64 require ARM64 Linux wheels.

This prevents us for upgrading to Open3D 0.19, and thus transitively also prevents us from having Python 3.12 support.

[fabiannagel]

+1, still an issue. is there any update here?

[johnthagen]

Not totally sure, but @ssheorey may be working on this in

• Post v0.19 fixes #7134

It's mentioned in the "CI errors left" section

[rowanG077]

It is getting more pressing for us as well. The rest of the ecosystem is slowly but surely moving to numpy 2.0 and open3d is a straggler for us currently since we are still on 0.18.

[nanotuxi]

On RPI4 the error

cannot allocate memory in static TLS block

could be resolved by

export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1
export LD_PRELOAD=~/.your_python_environment_path/open3d/lib/python3.12/site-packages/open3d/cpu/libOpen3D.so.0.19

git tells me that the last commit was

1e7b174

Build fixes for v0.19 (#7128)
So it seems to be related to ubuntu versions using wayland. With setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE to x11 the old behavior is used.

[johnnynunez]

how is it going?

[ssheorey]

No updates - we need someone with ARM64 hardware to submit a PR to fix this.

[johnnynunez]

No updates - we need someone with ARM64 hardware to submit a PR to fix this.

I have jetson AGX Orin, but you can use github arm runners...
I did it on my PR @ssheorey https://github.com/johnnynunez/Open3D/blob/main/.github/workflows/ubuntu-openblas.yml

PR: #7188

name: Ubuntu OpenBLAS
permissions: {}

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize]

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

env:
  GCE_GPU_CI_SA: ${{ secrets.GCE_GPU_CI_SA }}
  GCE_CLI_GHA_VERSION: '416.0.0'      # Fixed to avoid dependency on API changes

jobs:
  openblas-amd64:
    permissions:
      contents: read
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
    steps:
      - name: Checkout source code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Maximize build space
        run: |
          source util/ci_utils.sh
          maximize_ubuntu_github_actions_build_space
      - name: Docker build
        run: docker/docker_build.sh openblas-amd64-py310-dev

      - name: Docker test
        run: docker/docker_test.sh openblas-amd64-py310-dev

  openblas-arm64:
    permissions:
      contents: read
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
    steps:
      - name: Checkout source code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Maximize build space
        run: |
          source util/ci_utils.sh
          maximize_ubuntu_github_actions_build_space
      - name: Docker build
        run: docker/docker_build.sh openblas-arm64-py310-dev

      - name: Docker test
        run: docker/docker_test.sh openblas-arm64-py310-dev