Not able to create geo-rep session due to 'reading data from child failed'

Issue

Geo-rep creation failed with the following errors:

[2017-03-28 20:40:10.368388] E [MSGID: 106293] [glusterd-geo-rep.c:510:glusterd_urltransform] 0-management: reading data from child failed
[2017-03-28 20:40:10.368426] E [MSGID: 106340] [glusterd-geo-rep.c:5775:glusterd_op_gsync_create] 0-management: Unable to store slave info.
[2017-03-28 20:40:10.368440] E [MSGID: 106123] [glusterd-syncop.c:1404:gd_commit_op_phase] 0-management: Commit of operation 'Volume Geo-replication Create' failed on localhost