Github user felixcheung commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1672 as an aside, I'd update the JIRA/PR - it might not be obvious what "when SPARK_HOME is set" means. If external Spark is broken then I think it is a much much serious problem :)
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