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DSE_ENV could not be determined

I setup DataStax Enterprise 4.6.6 on a Linux Ubuntu machine. OpsCenter and DevCenter are working fine. I able to write to the database, etc. with no issues.

However many of the demos and command line tools return the following error:

DSE_ENV could not be determined

One such example of when this occurs is:

nodetool status

I found a file called DSE_ENV.sh which appears to set some environment variables such as DSE_HOME. But when I echo $DSE_HOME for example the variable is not set. I don't know if maybe this file is never getting called or what is causing the issue.

I found this article which is specific to the the dse service not starting, which is not the case with me: https://support.datastax.com/hc/en-us/articles/204226189-DSE-fails-to-start-with-error-DSE-ENV-could-not-be-determined

I tried however to run the permissions commands it mentions but no luck.

Solution

  • Worked with KOH on this over chat.

    TL;DR: we had to add

    export DSE_ENV=/usr/share/dse/bin/dse-env.sh

    to his ~/.bashrc because it wasn't getting picked up.

    For some reason this seems to be happening in the DSE GUI installer. I will look further into this and update.