+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1448386 +++

Description of problem:
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While running geo-replication sanity check which does following fop's (create,chmod,chown,chgrp,hardlink,symlink,truncate,rename,remove) observed the following worker crash. Eventually the checksum matches at master and slave, and hence do not know after which fop or crawl this is observed. The crash is only seen once and worker became online post that. 

[2017-05-04 17:24:29.679775] I [gsyncdstatus(/bricks/brick0/master_brick1):276:set_passive] GeorepStatus: Worker Status: Passive
[2017-05-04 17:24:30.635793] I [master(/bricks/brick1/master_brick4):1195:crawl] _GMaster: slave's time: (1493917690, 0)
[2017-05-04 17:24:35.496570] E [syncdutils(/bricks/brick1/master_brick4):296:log_raise_exception] <top>: FAIL:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/syncdutils.py", line 326, in twrap
    tf(*aa)
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/master.py", line 1575, in syncjob
    po = self.sync_engine(pb, self.log_err)
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/resource.py", line 1702, in rsync
    log_err=log_err)
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/resource.py", line 56, in sup
    sys._getframe(1).f_code.co_name)(*a, **kw)
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/resource.py", line 1025, in rsync
    "log_rsync_performance", default_value=False))
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/configinterface.py", line 264, in get_realtime
    return self.get(opt, printValue=False, default_value=default_value)
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/configinterface.py", line 369, in get
    self.update_to(d, allow_unresolved=True)
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/configinterface.py", line 359, in update_to
    update_from_sect(sect, MultiDict(dct, mad, *self.auxdicts))
  File "/usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/configinterface.py", line 343, in update_from_sect
    dct[k] = Template(v).safe_substitute(mud)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/string.py", line 205, in safe_substitute
    return self.pattern.sub(convert, self.template)
TypeError: expected string or buffer
[2017-05-04 17:24:35.563095] I [syncdutils(/bricks/brick1/master_brick4):237:finalize] <top>: exiting.
[2017-05-04 17:24:35.572370] I [repce(/bricks/brick1/master_brick4):92:service_loop] RepceServer: terminating on reaching EOF.
[2017-05-04 17:24:35.573046] I [syncdutils(/bricks/brick1/master_brick4):237:finalize] <top>: exiting.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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glusterfs-geo-replication-3.8.4-24.el7rhgs.x86_64


Steps to Reproduce:
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Do not know the exact steps since it was seen in the automation run. 
Will work to find out the specific steps and update this space later.

Actual results:
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Worker crashed and then came online.
Arequal checksum between master and slave matches.


Expected results:
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Worker should not crash.

--- Additional comment from Aravinda VK on 2017-06-06 08:48:33 EDT ---

Easy reproducer:

cd /usr/libexec/glusterfs/python/syncdaemon/
python

    from configinterface import GConffile
    conf = GConffile("/var/lib/glusterd/geo-replication/gsyncd_template.conf", 
                     ["master", "slave"], {})
    print conf.get()
    conf.set("log-rsync-performance", 10)
    print conf.get("log-rsync-performance")

Above script fails with the same traceback.

RCA: We are not restarting the worker for Some of the configuration changes(For example, log-rsync-performance), this causes non string value passed as template. Worker restart fixes this since it reads config values from file as string instead of actual type.