Monary() giving runtime error: ffi_prep_cif_var failed

[ShubhangG]

Hello,
I have a mongo database that I want to explore using Monary(). The pymongo client works quite well and I am able to explore using the MongoClient in pymongo. But when I use Monary() I get the following runtime error

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/shubhang/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/monary/monary.py", line 373, in __init__ self.connect(host, port, username, password, database, File "/home/shubhang/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/monary/monary.py", line 436, in connect self._connection = cmonary.monary_connect( RuntimeError: ffi_prep_cif_var failed
I tried Monary('localhost',27017) to explicitly identify the localhost as well but to no avail. I still get the same RuntimeError.

Here is the mongod status in case it helps

mongod.service - MongoDB Database Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mongod.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled> Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-03-14 08:40:33 CDT; 1 day 1h ago Docs: https://docs.mongodb.org/manual Main PID: 32645 (mongod) Memory: 2.9G CPU: 10min 32.377s CGroup: /system.slice/mongod.service └─32645 /usr/bin/mongod --config /etc/mongod.conf