Hi Rajesh,
I just tried python 2.711 & 2.7.12 and I get the same error 'invalid
continuation byte'.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Rajesh Radhakrishnan <
rajesh.radhakrish...@phe.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi John Z,
>
> Did you tried running with latest Python 2.7.11 or 2.7.12?
>
> Kind regards,
> Rajesh Radhakrishnan
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Ioannis Zafiropoulos [john...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 27 October 2016 22:16
> *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org
> *Subject:* cqlsh fails to connect
>
> I upgraded DSE 4.8.9 to 5.0.3, that is, from Cassandra 2.1.11 to 3.0.9
> I used DSE 5.0.3 tarball installation. Cassandra cluster is up and running
> OK and I am able to connect through DBeaver.
>
> Tried a lot of things and cannot connect with cqlsh:
>
> Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'x.x.x.x':
> UnicodeDecodeError('utf8', '+\x00\x00H\x08\x00\xf0$+\x00\
> x00\x10\x7f-\xe7S+\x00\x00`B\xb3\xe5S', 6, 7, 'invalid continuation
> byte')})
>
> Versions
> ------------
> $ pip freeze | grep cas
> cassandra-driver==3.6.0
> cassandra-driver-dse==1.0.3
>
> $ python
> Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 20 2015, 02:00:19)
> [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
>
> $ which cqlsh (DSE's cqlsh client)
> /opt/dse/bin/cqlsh
>
> Tried also
> $ export CQLSH_NO_BUNDLED=false
>
> Also tried
> --------------
> Tried to install via pip in a fresh clean box the cqlsh client. I ended up
> with the latest cassandra-driver 3.7.1
>
> $ pip freeze | grep cas
> cassandra-driver==3.7.1
>
> $ pip freeze | grep cql
> cql==1.4.0
> cqlsh==5.0.3
>
> And got this:
> Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'x.x.x.x':
> ProtocolError("cql_version '3.3.1' is not supported by remote (w/ native
> protocol). Supported versions: [u'3.4.0']",)})
>
> Tried to force it:
> $ cqlsh XX.XX.XX.XX --cqlversion="3.4.0"
> Got the original-first error message:
> Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'x.x.x.x':
> UnicodeDecodeError('utf8', '+\x00\x00H\x08\x00\xf0$+\x00\
> x00\x10\x7f-\xe7S+\x00\x00`B\xb3\xe5S', 6, 7, 'invalid continuation
> byte')})
>
> At some point I got this message too, but I don't remember what I did:
> Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'x.x.x.x':
> DriverException(u'Failed decoding result column "table_name" of type
> varchar: ',)})
>
> Thank you in advance for you help,
> John Z
>
>
>
>
>
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