[RHGS] gstatus command fails with ParseError exception

Issue

I am using the gstatus command to check the status of my Red Hat Gluster Storage cluster. The command fails with the traceback below:

# gstatus -a
Traceback (most recent call last):ons                                     
  File "/usr/bin/gstatus", line 221, in <module>
  main()
  File "/usr/bin/gstatus", line 135, in main
  cluster.update_state(self_heal_backlog)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gstatus/libgluster/cluster.py", line 638, in update_state
  self.calc_connections()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gstatus/libgluster/cluster.py", line 730, in calc_connections
  xml_root = ETree.fromstring(xml_string)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1301, in XML
  return parser.close()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1654, in close
  self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
  raise err
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0