[BEAM-8368] [Python] libprotobuf-generated exception when importing apache_beam

• Type: Bug
• Status: Triage Needed
• Priority: P0
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.15.0, 2.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.17.0
• Component/s: sdk-py-core
• Assignee: Brian Hulette
• Reporter: Ubaier Bhat
• Created: 09/Oct/19 10:29
• Updated: 13/Apr/23 10:56
• Resolved: 20/Nov/19 14:52

Description

Unable to import apache_beam after upgrading to macos 10.15 (Catalina). Cleared all the pipenvs and but can't get it working again.

import apache_beam as beam
/Users/***/.local/share/virtualenvs/beam-etl-ims6DitU/lib/python3.7/site-packages/apache_beam/__init__.py:84: UserWarning: Some syntactic constructs of Python 3 are not yet fully supported by Apache Beam.
  'Some syntactic constructs of Python 3 are not yet fully supported by '
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/descriptor_database.cc:58] File already exists in database: 
[libprotobuf FATAL google/protobuf/descriptor.cc:1370] CHECK failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size): 
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type google::protobuf::FatalException: CHECK failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size): 

Issue Links

• causes: BEAM-8392 Update pyarrow version bounds
• is related to: ARROW-6860 [Python] Only link libarrow_flight.so to pyarrow._flight
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9768
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9970
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9986