Why is firewalld in a failed state with error "'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 75: ordinal not in range(128)"?
Issue
firewalld
is in a failed state and cannot be reloaded:
[root@localhost ~]# firewall-cmd --state
failed
[root@localhost ~]# firewall-cmd --reload
Error: COMMAND_FAILED: Direct: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 75: ordinal not in range(128)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
firewalld
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