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Problem start cqlsh on OSX - Lion

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jschappet
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$ bin/cqlsh
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bin/cqlsh", line 2772, in <module>
main(*read_options(sys.argv[1:], os.environ))
File "bin/cqlsh", line 2758, in main
display_float_precision=options.float_precision)
File "bin/cqlsh", line 593, in __init__
self.output_codec = codecs.lookup(encoding)
LookupError: unknown encoding:

$ uname -a
Darwin hostname 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Posted 6 months ago #
nickmbailey
Key Master

Can you run:

python -c 'import locale, codecs; encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(); print encoding; print codecs.lookup(encoding)'

Posted 6 months ago #
jschappet
Member

schappetj$ python -c 'import locale, codecs; encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(); print encoding; print codecs.lookup(encoding)'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
LookupError: unknown encoding:

Posted 6 months ago #
nickmbailey
Key Master

It appears that your system has no default encoding set for some reason. I would file a bug with your information on the Cassandra Jira here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA

In the meantime you can likely workaround the issue by changing the lookup line in bin/cqlsh:

self.output_codec = codecs.lookup(encoding)

to:

self.output_codec = codecs.lookup("UTF-8")

Posted 6 months ago #
jschappet
Member

That seems to have fixed it.

Posted 6 months ago #

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