[CASSANDRA-11573] cqlsh fails with undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF8

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.6

Environment

centos 7, datastax ddc 3.5

installed according to
http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/install/installRHEL.html

JVM vendor/version: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM/1.8.0_77
Cassandra version: 3.5.0

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Michael Shuler
• Reporter: Oli Schacher

Authors

Michael Shuler

• Created: 14/Apr/16 08:04
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 30/Apr/16 00:03

Description

trying to run cqlsh produces:

cqlsh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cqlsh.py", line 170, in <module>
from cqlshlib.copyutil import ExportTask, ImportTask
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cqlshlib/copyutil.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS2_DecodeUTF8

with 3.4 the error does not happen.

Issue Links

• depends upon: CASSANDRA-11630 Make cython optional in pylib/setup.py