It looks like pyspark is not able to talk to its java classes. Could you double check the SPARK_HOME etc are correctly set?
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM -0700, "Renxia Wang" <renxia.w...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to run zeppelin locally, interact with spark in local mode. I ran this paragraph and got the following error: %pyspark print "test" pyspark is not responding Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark.py", line 20, in ? from py4j.java_gateway import java_import, JavaGateway, GatewayClient File "/home/renxwang/tools/spark-1.4.0/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 627 class JavaClass(): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax and sometimes the error is: pyspark is not responding My env: RHEL5 JAVA 8 Spark 1.4.0 spark.home: /home/spark PYSPARK_PYTHON=/home/spark/python PYTHONPATH=$PYSPARK_PYTHON:$PYSPARK_PYTHON/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip:$PYTHONPATH I have check the log, which shows no error and it states the job is finished. And the default scala works fine. Any help will be appreciated! Thank you for your time. Zhique