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  • firewalld.service and tuned.service fail to start

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    Red Hat Enterprise Server 8.2

    Two services are failing at startup and would not start even when started manually:

    • firewalld.service

    Oct 05 15:22:34 server001 systemd[1]: Starting firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon...
    -- Subject: Unit firewalld.service has begun start-up
    -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support

    -- Unit firewalld.service has begun starting up.
    Oct 05 15:22:34 server001 platform-python[14478]: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/sbin/firewalld'
    Oct 05 15:22:34 server001 systemd[1]: firewalld.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
    Oct 05 15:22:34 server001 systemd[1]: firewalld.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    Oct 05 15:22:34 server001 systemd[1]: Failed to start firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon.
    -- Subject: Unit firewalld.service has failed
    -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://access.redhat.com/support

    -- Unit firewalld.service has failed.

    -- The result is failed.

    • tuned.service

    systemctl status tuned.service

    ● tuned.service - Dynamic System Tuning Daemon
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tuned.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-10-05 14:41:49 CDT; 46min ago
    Docs: man:tuned(8)
    man:tuned.conf(5)
    man:tuned-adm(8)
    Process: 3496 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/tuned -l -P (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Main PID: 3496 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuned/profiles/init.py", line 1, in
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: from tuned.profiles.locator import *
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tuned/profiles/locator.py", line 3, in
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: from configobj import ConfigObj, ConfigObjError
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/configobj.py", line 22, in
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: import six
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 tuned[3496]: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'six'
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 systemd[1]: tuned.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 systemd[1]: tuned.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    Oct 05 14:41:49 server001 systemd[1]: Failed to start Dynamic System Tuning Daemon.
    [root@rad-dwlab01 ~]#

    Any ideas on how to fix this ?

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