cqlsh> DESCRIBE KEYSPACE operations ;

 CREATE KEYSPACE operations WITH replicati
  'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy',
  'sjc': '3',
  'ams': '3',
  'lga': '3'
} AND durable_writes = 'false';

USE operations;

CREATE TABLE mutex (
  PRIMARY KEY (())
) WITH COMPACT STORAGE AND
  bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND
  caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND
  comment='Poor MUTEX implementation' AND
  dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND
   gc_grace_sec AND
  read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND
   replicate_ AND
   populate_io_cache_ AND
   compacti 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'} AND
   compressi 'SnappyCompressor'};

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 834, in onecmd
    self.handle_statement(st, statementtext)
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 872, in handle_statement
    return custom_handler(parsed)
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 1349, in do_describe
    self.describe_keyspace(ksname)
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 1248, in describe_keyspace
    self.print_recreate_keyspace(self.get_keyspace(ksname), sys.stdout)
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 1118, in print_recreate_keyspace
    self.print_recreate_columnfamily(ksdef.name, cf, out)
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 1127, in print_recreate_columnfamily
    layout = self.get_columnfamily_layout(ksname, cfname)
  File "/usr/local/bin/cqlsh", line 709, in get_columnfamily_layout
    return cql3handling.CqlTableDef.from_layout(layout, cols)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cassandra/2.0.9/bin/../pylib/cqlshlib/cql3handling.py", line 1144, in from_layout
    columns = filter(lambda c: c.name, map(CqlColumnDef.from_layout, coldefs))
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/cassandra/2.0.9/bin/../pylib/cqlshlib/cql3handling.py", line 1088, in from_layout
     c.comp
KeyError: u'type'

The missing table was created with:

CREATE TABLE "repair_status" (
             nodename varchar,
             repair_status varchar,
             PRIMARY KEY (nodename))
           WITH comment='Repair status of each node'