xs login on Ubuntu returns error

[former_member679739]

I installed SAP HANA Express on Ubuntu 20.04 acording to How to install SAP Hana Express Edition 2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)

when I try to do xs login according to the steps of the tutorial SAP HANA XS Advanced, explore the basic tools

I run into the python error

Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized

See full error message here: SAP HANA on Ubuntu - xs login results in python error

So my question is:

1. where is this xs program and how does it start ( I can neither find it via which xs nor via find / -name xs)

2. In forums I saw that the issue results mostly because python-environment variables PYTONHOME and/or PYTHONPATH are set. Maybe there needs to be a change??

[pfefferf · Accepted solution]

You have installed HANA Express using the binary installer. That does not include the XS CLI client tooling. You have to install it in a separate step. You can download it via the HXE Download Manager (it is part of the Clients package).

And I guess you have installed the Server + Applications version of HXE (in difference to the server-only version described in the referenced blog). Otherwise the XS CLI tooling would make no sense, when the XSA runtime is not installed.

[former_member679739 · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot for pointing out the direction to go.

On the server only XS was installed (even though I thought I used the default option "all") but I had to experiment because of the different libstdc++ versions.

So I started the installer again and it was installing XSA - problem solved on the sever 🙂

On the client I installed the client and am able to start xs login as well 🙂