Connection error 61 for cassandra

Hello, I set up a single node on localhost, and it was working fine I connected cassandra with a apache spark, and was able to access the keyspaces After this, i connected to pyspark using the datastax spark-cassandra connector Ever since then, when i try to access spark via cqlsh, all i get is

Re: Connection error 61 for cassandra

I ran through those issues a while ago. It was on Ubuntu rather than OSX but probably the same. I compiled my steps here: http://mrcalonso.com/fitting-ipython-notebooks-spark-and-cassandra-all-together/ Cheers! Carlos Alonso | Software Engineer | @calonso On 19