Goferd service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 fails to start with: goferd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

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Issue

  • Goferd service on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 fails to start with the below error:
File "/usr/bin/goferd", line 17, in <module>
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite env: from gofer.agent.main import main
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite env: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gofer/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite env: from .common import Thread, Singleton, ThreadSingleton
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite env: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gofer/common.py", line 28, in <module>
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite env: from six import PY2
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite env: ImportError: cannot import name PY2
Dec 20 11:16:24 satellite systemd: goferd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0

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