[IMPALA-32] Impala Shell quits working in kerberos mode if the python 'sasl' package is installed after installing python-saslwrapper (Centos6)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.4
• Fix Version/s: Impala 0.6
• Assignee: Ishaan Joshi
• Reporter: Lenni Kuff
• Created: 26/Jan/13 01:12
• Updated: 26/Feb/13 19:03
• Resolved: 26/Feb/13 19:03

Description

Impala Shell quits working in kerberos mode if the python 'sasl' package is installed after installing python-saslwrapper. This looks like an install issue with the python 'sasl' package, but we should investigate if we can work around this in the impala-shell code. Either way we need to document this incompatibility so users don't run into this.

sudo yum install impala-shell # will install impala-shell as well as python-saslwrapper
impala-shell -k  # succeeds

sudo pip-python install sasl

impala-shell -k  # Fails
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/impala-shell/impala_shell.py", line 638, in <module>
    import saslwrapper as sasl
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/saslwrapper.py", line 69, in <module>
    class SwigPyIterator(_object):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/saslwrapper.py", line 76, in SwigPyIterator
    __swig_destroy__ = _saslwrapper.delete_SwigPyIterator

sudo pip-python uninstall sasl
impala-shell -k  # succeeds