RHEL gdb command fails with Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Running The GNU Debugger command gdb fails with the following error.

    $ gdb
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/encodings/__init__.py", line 123
    raise CodecRegistryError,\
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Current thread 0x00007fb99529dbc0 (most recent call first):
Aborted

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Python 2.7.17

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