[CASSANDRA-8023] DESCRIBE KEYSPACES / KEYSPACE no longer works with Cassandra 2.1 and cqlsh

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Labels: cqlsh

Environment

Ubuntu 14.04, running in a Docker container with Ubuntu 14.04

• Severity: Normal
• Since Version: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthew O'Riordan
• Created: 30/Sep/14 03:05
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 02/Oct/14 22:44

Description

Connecting to my Cassandra 2.1 cluster with the new 5.0.1 version of cqlsh, when I run DESCRIBE KEYSPACES I am told there are no keyspaces.

```
cqlsh> describe keyspaces
describe keyspaces
<empty>
```

Yet if I connect to that same cluster with version 4 of cqlsh it works fine, I can query the keyspaces, and if I run the query manually `select * from system.schema_keyspaces` I am given a list of keyspaces.

`DESCRIBE KEYSPACE` also fails with the new cqlsh tool, yet works with version 4.

```
cqlsh>use mykeyspace;
cqlsh:mykeyspace> describe keyspace;
describe keyspace;
Keyspace 'ably_sandbox_0' not found.
```

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-8012 cqlsh "DESCRIBE KEYSPACES;" returns empty after upgrade