Maya 2017 crash on starup because of PYTHONPATH

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm on Maya 2017 Linux, and when I add 

export export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/
 to my .bashrc Maya crashes immediately on startup. I've tried using sys.path.append to simply add this in during the script's runtime, but that does not work. Any help would be appreciated. Also, I am not admin of my system so please don't suggest a clean install of maya haha. I have also tried a new prefs folder but it was still crashing.

Chris

[Anonymous]

If anyone has this issue I've made a quick workaround by just calling a helper shell script that does the export PYTHONPATH and then runs the .py I was trying to use in the first place. But this seems like a bug still. 

[Anonymous]

If anyone has this issue I've made a quick workaround by just calling a helper shell script that does the export PYTHONPATH and then runs the .py I was trying to use in the first place. But this seems like a bug still. 

[ckrause]

By any chance do you have PySide2 in your site-packages? I just ran into this today and it seemed like the PySide2 package in my external python interpreter was causing the conflict.