free(): invalid pointer Aborted error when importing from google.cloud import bigquery in python

[rituraj17]

I started facing this peculiar issue while import importing BigQuery in python scripts as well as in the terminal.
Can anyone help me out here?
I even tried to downgrade the bigquery package from 2.20 to 2.1 its still give me the same error

root@f6968ce75f9d:~# python 
Python 3.7.10 (default, May 28 2021, 10:36:10) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from google.cloud import bigquery
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted

[plamut]

@rituraj17 This sounds a lot like an issue opened in the Pub/Sub repo. It's an issue in grpcio that has now been fixed, just not released yet.

Until it's released, does the workaround posted in the related issue work for you?
(essentially, grpc should be imported before proto.message)

import grpc
import proto.message
from google.cloud import bigquery

[plamut]

This has been fixed and released in grpcio 1.38.1. Will update the version pin.