Why 'firewall-config' command fails with error "ImportError: cannot import name NetworkManager" ?

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Issue

  • When running firewall-config command, its failing with error message as shown below:
[root@hostname /]# firewall-config
ERROR:root:Could not find any typelib for NetworkManager
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/firewall-config", line 34, in <module>
    from gi.repository import NetworkManager
ImportError: cannot import name NetworkManager
[root@hostname /]#

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
  • Firewalld
  • NetworkManager

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