RHEL7: libvirtd cannot start with the error "dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)""

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We set the system locale to ja_JP.eucjp.
  • Then, libvirtd doesn't start with the following error.

    libvirtd: process 10896: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754.
    libvirtd: This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
    libvirtd: D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
    abrt-hook-ccpp: Process 10896 (libvirtd) of user 0 killed by SIGABRT - ignoring (repeated crash)
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • libvirt

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