# Could not load symbol "jl\_system\_image\_data", fail to precompile

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-load-symbol-jl-system-image-data-fail-to-precompile/114752>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, error, precompilation\
**Created:** [May 26, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-load-symbol-jl-system-image-data-fail-to-precompile/114752 "2024-05-26T16:21:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-load-symbol-jl-system-image-data-fail-to-precompile/114752/1 "2024-05-26T16:21:35Z")

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Precompilation of a project on a shared server breaks, due to the following error:

```bash
 Error: Error during loading of extension IntervalSetsRandomExt of IntervalSets, use `Base.retry_load_extensions()` to retry.
│ exception =
│ 1-element ExceptionStack:
│ could not load symbol "jl_system_image_data":
│ /eos/home-s/sfranche/.julia/compiled/v1.10/IntervalSetsRandomExt/GqezX_gyIes.so: undefined symbol: jl_system_image_data
│ Stacktrace:
...

```

The same error occurs for few other extensions:

```julia
BangBangTablesExt of BangBang
BangBangStructArraysExt of BangBang
IntervalSetsRandomExt of IntervalSets
FillArraysPDMatsExt of FillArrays
FillArraysSparseArraysExt of FillArrays

```

I’ve tried several times, also re-installing julia fresh, but can’t make it work. While on other servers and on my local laptop things do work. 🤷

Has anyone some clue on where is this coming from?

Thanks for any help!

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-load-symbol-jl-system-image-data-fail-to-precompile/114752/2 "2024-05-26T16:52:23Z")

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What is the output of:

```julia
versioninfo()

```

What is the output of:

```julia
using Pkg
Pkg.status()

```

?  
And how did you install Julia?

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**Author:** ![sfranchel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sfranchel/32/209504_2.png) [@sfranchel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sfranchel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-load-symbol-jl-system-image-data-fail-to-precompile/114752/3 "2024-05-26T17:00:54Z")

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I’m installing via `juliaup`.

Here’s the output of `versioninfo()`:

```bash
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.10.3
Commit 0b4590a5507 (2024-04-30 10:59 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 10 × Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, cascadelake)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 10 virtual cores)
Environment:
  JULIA_DEPOT_PATH = /eos/home-s/sfranche/.julia/

```

and here is the `Pkg.status()`:

```bash
julia> Pkg.status()
Project BjetTLA v1.0.0-DEV
Status `/eos/home-s/sfranche/TLA/tla-software/BjetTLA.jl/Project.toml`
  [13f3f980] CairoMakie v0.12.2
  [35d6a980] ColorSchemes v3.25.0
  [864edb3b] DataStructures v0.18.20
  [68837c9b] FHist v0.11.4
  [c27321d9] Glob v1.3.1
  [682c06a0] JSON v0.21.4
  [f612022c] LorentzVectorHEP v0.1.6
  [eff96d63] Measurements v2.11.0
  [67456a42] OhMyThreads v0.5.2
  [295af30f] Revise v3.5.14
  [09ab397b] StructArrays v0.6.18
  [3cd96dde] UnROOT v0.10.30

```

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> [@sfranchel](#):
>
> ```julia
> julia> versioninfo()
> Julia Version 1.10.3
> 
> ```

I found that the problem goes away on 1.11-beta2, or older version actually, for example 1.10.0 was also fine.

You can try `juliaup add 1.11` and then start Julia with `julia +1.11 --project` see if that fixes issue, it fixed for me on the EOS