Bug description

We deploy the release version superset, and this morning we’d had an outage: Web interface was running but wouldn’t query anything.

The logs included reference to:

  File "/home/ec2-user/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 206, in __init__
    self.pool = self.QueueCls(maxsize)
  File "src/gevent/queue.py", line 513, in gevent._gevent_cqueue.Queue.__init__
  File "src/gevent/queue.py", line 193, in gevent._gevent_cqueue.SimpleQueue.__init__
  File "/home/ec2-user/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/queue.py", line 13, in _init
    self.queue = collections.deque()
AttributeError: attribute 'queue' of 'gevent._gevent_cqueue.SimpleQueue' objects is not writable

This led me to finding: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-engineio/issues/403

And I fixed it by by adding to the system.d service file:

Environment=GEVENT_MONKEY_DISABLE_QUEUE_QUEUE=true

Dunno if it’s strictly a Superset issue, but wanted to share in case anyone else encounters it.

Screenshots/recordings

No response

Superset version

master / latest-dev

Python version

3.9

Node version

16

Browser

Chrome

Additional context

  File "/home/ec2-user/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 206, in __init__
    self.pool = self.QueueCls(maxsize)
  File "src/gevent/queue.py", line 513, in gevent._gevent_cqueue.Queue.__init__
  File "src/gevent/queue.py", line 193, in gevent._gevent_cqueue.SimpleQueue.__init__
  File "/home/ec2-user/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/queue.py", line 13, in _init
    self.queue = collections.deque()
AttributeError: attribute 'queue' of 'gevent._gevent_cqueue.SimpleQueue' objects is not writable

Checklist

  • [x] I have searched Superset docs and Slack and didn't find a solution to my problem.
  • [x] I have searched the GitHub issue tracker and didn't find a similar bug report.
  • [x] I have checked Superset's logs for errors and if I found a relevant Python stacktrace, I included it here as text in the "additional context" section.

Comment From: dosubot[bot]

Hi @thegareth! I'm Dosu and I’m helping the superset team.

This gevent/urllib3 queue error isn't tracked or documented in Superset's issue tracker, docs, or codebase, and there are no official recommendations for the GEVENT_MONKEY_DISABLE_QUEUE_QUEUE workaround. Superset now requires Python 3.10 or later, so running on Python 3.9 may expose you to compatibility issues like this one reference. The workaround you found—setting GEVENT_MONKEY_DISABLE_QUEUE_QUEUE=true—addresses a known incompatibility between gevent's monkey-patching and urllib3's queue usage, but Superset expects users to manage such environment-level fixes themselves. No recent pull requests or code comments mention this issue or workaround. If others hit this, your solution is currently the best-known fix.

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Comment From: thegareth

Thank you Dosu, will look at installing a later Python on our distro, the default is 3.9, but 3.11 is available.