Geting ERROR: Config value cuda is not defined in any .rc file when trying to train mobilenet in tensorflow

Question

I'm trying to run MobileNet_v1 on ImageNet and for that I'm using the official Tensorflow Model repository and following their guide.
However when I actually tried to run the training for MobileNet_v1 by first initiating :

models/research/slim$ bazel build -c opt --config=cuda mobilenet_v1_{eval,train}

I got :

Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Options provided by the client:
  Inherited 'common' options: --isatty=1 --terminal_columns=146
ERROR: Config value cuda is not defined in any .rc file

All previous steps have been successful and everything seems fine except this one.
I'm using :

Ubuntu 16.04  
TF version: v1.7.0 (and 1.10.1) 
Cuda v9.0  
cuDNN v7.0 (and 7.1.3)  
bazel release 0.16.1

Answer 1

According to the bazel releases page,

--[no]allow_undefined_configs no longer exists, passing undefined configs is an error.

as of version 0.16.0 and above.

Using an older version of bazel should solve your problem for now.