# How to fix a weird pandas and pyarrow issue with BirdNetPi

DevFeed: [How to fix a weird pandas and pyarrow issue with BirdNetPi](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-fix-a-weird-pandas-and-pyarrow-issue-with-birdnetpi-35592.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.rtwilson.com/how-to-fix-a-weird-pandas-and-pyarrow-issue-with-birdnetpi/>)

Author: Robin Wilson

Published: 2026-08-27T17:57:36Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Robin Wilson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/robin-wilson.md>)

Topics: [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Raspberry Pi](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/raspberry-pi.md>), [pandas](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pandas.md>)

Tags: [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [pandas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pandas.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [raspberry-pi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/raspberry-pi.md>)

## AI overview

A troubleshooting guide for BirdNetPi explains that immediate Python crashes and missing Streamlit visualizations can be caused by the pyarrow package. The author uses import profiling to identify pyarrow as the package present immediately before the crash and recommends trying its removal.

## Source excerpt

Summary: If you get Python crashing immediately in BirdNetPi, try uninstalling the pyarrow Python package. I've got a BirdNetPi set up at home. This is a bit of software that runs on a Raspberry Pi and listens on a microphone (I've mounted mine on the outside of an upstairs window, using a 3D printed mount/cover [...]