cqlsh connection error: 'ref() does not take keyword arguments'
I've tried all the measures from this post and Cassandra doc . I've tried running all the versions of Cassandra including the latest release 3.7 from tarball and Debian package, but I keep getting errors when I execute cqlsh . Error: Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'127.0.0.1': TypeError('ref() does not take keyword arguments',)}) I had no problem running Cassandra before I upgraded my Linux Mint from 17.3 to 18. I believe I installed all the necessary packages such as java 8 and python 2.7.12. I think the problem exists in cassandra.yaml file since the default setting